Books and Their WritersG. Richards Limited, 1920 - 343 psl. |
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... tion of finding out which is the best of Keats ' five Odes , or Shakespeare's greatest tragedy . I have no favourite author . The last time I dared to write generally of the modern author I was taken to task for omitting to mention ...
... tion of finding out which is the best of Keats ' five Odes , or Shakespeare's greatest tragedy . I have no favourite author . The last time I dared to write generally of the modern author I was taken to task for omitting to mention ...
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... tion of our adolescence , we get bored . The curtain- raiser is too long : the adventure is all prelude . 66 His second limitation is even worse ! He seems quite unable to create a decent man . Alan can at least play cricket , but none ...
... tion of our adolescence , we get bored . The curtain- raiser is too long : the adventure is all prelude . 66 His second limitation is even worse ! He seems quite unable to create a decent man . Alan can at least play cricket , but none ...
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... tion : " The Russian has convictions , but no principles . The Englishman has principles , but no convictions , he obeys the laws : a criminal requires imagination . He prides himself on his immunity from vexatious imposts . Yet whisky ...
... tion : " The Russian has convictions , but no principles . The Englishman has principles , but no convictions , he obeys the laws : a criminal requires imagination . He prides himself on his immunity from vexatious imposts . Yet whisky ...
39 psl.
... tion of bliss . Keith , her dream - lover , meets her on board and takes her down to the cabin . " She had never before seen such a room . It seemed , because the ceiling was low , to be very spacious ; the walls and ceiling were of a ...
... tion of bliss . Keith , her dream - lover , meets her on board and takes her down to the cabin . " She had never before seen such a room . It seemed , because the ceiling was low , to be very spacious ; the walls and ceiling were of a ...
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... tion of growth ; but solely in the destruction of time and the resuscitation of exhausting excitements . " But the greatest excitement comes in unexpectedly . A certain William Vechantor , cousin to the Vechantors , takes over a ...
... tion of growth ; but solely in the destruction of time and the resuscitation of exhausting excitements . " But the greatest excitement comes in unexpectedly . A certain William Vechantor , cousin to the Vechantors , takes over a ...
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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...