The Dial, Հատորներ 36-37Francis Fisher Browne Jansen, McClurg, 1904 |
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Էջ 22 - Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?
Էջ 64 - GENUS: the Little Foundling of the late Dr. Syntax. By the Author of
Էջ 234 - ... presented for the reader in their philosophical relation to each other as well as to universal history. It is the plan of the writers of the different volumes to enter into the real life of the peoples, and to bring them before the reader as they actually lived, labored, and struggled — as they studied and wrote, and as they amused themselves. In carrying out this plan, the myths, with which the history...
Էջ 312 - Lyrical Ballads; in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Էջ 178 - Mr. Hulbert has evidently mastered his subject, and has treated it very ably and enthusiastically. History is too frequently a mere collection of dry bones, but here we have a book which, when once begun, will be read eagerly to the end, so vividly does the author bring scenes and personages before us."— Current Literature. "As in the prior volumes, the general effect is that of a most entertaining series. The charm of the style is evident.' *—American Historical Review. " His style is effective...
Էջ 352 - THE AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY. A Foundation of Useful Knowledge of the Higher Animals of North America.
Էջ 376 - The sun and moon shed unwholesome influences from above ; the earth exhales poisonous damps from beneath ; the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea...
Էջ 278 - Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand different things: the learned and the ignorant, the wise and the foolish, infancy and age have come in turn — generally without having the least suspicion of it — to bring me the offering of their thoughts, their faculties, their experience.
Էջ 387 - Here is a glorious sunshiny day : all the morning I read about Nero in Tacitus lying at full length on a bench in the garden : a nightingale singing, and some red anemones eyeing the sun manfully not far off. A funny mixture all this : Nero, and the delicacy of Spring : all very human however.