John Holdsworth: chief mate. By the author of 'Jilted'. |
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John Holdsworth: Chief Mate: A Story in Three Vols, Том 1 William Clark Russell Полный просмотр - 1875 |
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Стр. 261 - Everywhere there is the poetic landscape-painting which bespeaks an artist who has thrown himself into his work .... But perhaps Mr. Blackmore's special excellence is his gift of humour — a gift never misused in the service of ill-nature. It is not easy to give samples of this, because it pervades the whole book. For the rest, we will only say that Mr. Blackmore's 'Alice Lorraine' will sustain his reputation as one of our best English novelists.
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Стр. 262 - It is almost superfluous to say that this is a good novel. . . . ' Three Feathers' is a book which no one but the author of 'A Daughter of Heth' could have written, and which all persons who appreciate real humour, good character-drawing, and beautiful landscape -painting in words, will love to read once and again.
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