Books and Their WritersG. Richards Limited, 1920 - 343 psl. |
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... once seemed very small when compared with the immanence of death and the grandeur of male friendships , now loom as large as ever . One thing only we require of those who write , that they shall be as Tchekov says , humanists to the ...
... once seemed very small when compared with the immanence of death and the grandeur of male friendships , now loom as large as ever . One thing only we require of those who write , that they shall be as Tchekov says , humanists to the ...
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... once we take into account certain definite limitations that are peculiar to Mackenzie's genius . In the first place , he possesses a memory which is almost Macau- layesque . I know of no author who can re - create our earliest years so ...
... once we take into account certain definite limitations that are peculiar to Mackenzie's genius . In the first place , he possesses a memory which is almost Macau- layesque . I know of no author who can re - create our earliest years so ...
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... once more , and begin over again . She died at the age of fourteen years and two months . Her corpse forthwith became roseate in colour , exhaled a delicious odour of violets for twenty weeks , and performed countless miracles . On ...
... once more , and begin over again . She died at the age of fourteen years and two months . Her corpse forthwith became roseate in colour , exhaled a delicious odour of violets for twenty weeks , and performed countless miracles . On ...
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... once . That is the secret of Jane Austen's power : she has seized upon the salient , ineradicable characteristics of the type which is always with us ; the unstable lover , the gossiping , scandal - mongering old dame , the young ...
... once . That is the secret of Jane Austen's power : she has seized upon the salient , ineradicable characteristics of the type which is always with us ; the unstable lover , the gossiping , scandal - mongering old dame , the young ...
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... once stimulate the youth of the country to care about learning in the same degree that it cares about athletics - and now a self - confessed amateur comes along and knocks all my pet theories down and tells us that the problem is quite ...
... once stimulate the youth of the country to care about learning in the same degree that it cares about athletics - and now a self - confessed amateur comes along and knocks all my pet theories down and tells us that the problem is quite ...
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Alice Meynell artist ballads beauty character Charlotte Brontë charm colour comes Compton Mackenzie critic Cumberland Cymbeline D. H. Lawrence delight Dorothy Richardson emotional England English essay eyes feel genius girl give happy Hearn heart Hugh Walpole human humour imagination intellectual interest J. C. Squire Jane Austen Jenny light literary literature living Lord lover married master mind Miss modern moral nature never night novelist novels pass passion play poems poet poetry prose quotes reader realise Reginald romantic Rupert Brooke Saki secret seems sense Shakespeare sing Sir Edward Cook song soul spirit story Strachey style sweet Swinburne Sylvia Scarlett talk Tennyson things thought tion true truth turn verse W. H. Davies W. J. Turner whole wife woman women wonderful words write young youth
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61 psl. - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
85 psl. - HARK! hark, my soul; angelic songs are swelling O'er earth's green fields, and ocean's wavebeat shore : How sweet the truth those blessed strains are telling Of that new life when sin shall be no more. Angels of Jesus, angels of light, Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night. 2 Onward we go, for still we hear them singing, 'Come, weary souls, for Jesus bids you come...
207 psl. - The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action...
210 psl. - The streets were mine, the temple was mine, the people were mine, their clothes and gold and silver were mine as much as their sparkling eyes, fair skins and ruddy faces. The skies were mine, and so were the sun and moon and stars, and all the World was mine and I the only spectator and enjoyer of it.
246 psl. - Ah! no; a shepherd of a different stock, And far unlike him, feeds this little flock: A jovial youth, who thinks his Sunday's task As much as God or man can fairly ask; The rest he gives to loves and labours light. To fields the morning, and to feasts the night; None better...
141 psl. - Was there love once? I have forgotten her. Was there grief once? Grief yet is mine. O loved, living, dying, heroic soldier, All, all my joy, my grief, my love, are thine.
216 psl. - You will see Coleridge — he who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, with its own internal lightning blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair — A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls.
296 psl. - Shy as the squirrel and wayward as the swallow, Swift as the swallow along the river's light Circleting the surface to meet his mirror'd winglets, Fleeter she seems in her stay than in her flight.
52 psl. - Oh! it is only a novel!" replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. - "It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
53 psl. - I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life...