Littell's Living Age, Հատոր 95Living Age Company Incorporated, 1867 |
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Արդյունքներ 100–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... interest . When the vilest of topics happens to fall into the hands of such an anatomist as Balzac , or under the more human touch of Victor Hugo , there is something of calm science in the investiga- tion - a kind of inexorable and ...
... interest . When the vilest of topics happens to fall into the hands of such an anatomist as Balzac , or under the more human touch of Victor Hugo , there is something of calm science in the investiga- tion - a kind of inexorable and ...
Էջ 8
... interest and some char- all bought with her duke's money , seems to acter in it . The young lover is , in his way , be considered by Miss Braddon quite con- a real man not very brilliant certainly , sistent with relations of the purest ...
... interest and some char- all bought with her duke's money , seems to acter in it . The young lover is , in his way , be considered by Miss Braddon quite con- a real man not very brilliant certainly , sistent with relations of the purest ...
Էջ 13
... interest which should belong to a death - and - life struggle . The idea is so far original that Margaret is at no period of her career a repentant Magdalene ; and neither is she tempted by passion into her base and treacherous crime ...
... interest which should belong to a death - and - life struggle . The idea is so far original that Margaret is at no period of her career a repentant Magdalene ; and neither is she tempted by passion into her base and treacherous crime ...
Էջ 14
... interest in her , and indignation at the amazingly sense- less way in which her prospects are thrown away . The device by which this is accom- plished is one which is becoming about as general as the golden hair . It is used in both ...
... interest in her , and indignation at the amazingly sense- less way in which her prospects are thrown away . The device by which this is accom- plished is one which is becoming about as general as the golden hair . It is used in both ...
Էջ 16
... interest exists after all in these equivocal produc- tions , the sacrifice would not seem a great one . - powers to ... interests out of our own immediate circle . We are disposed to protest against the uncomfortable vacillation between ...
... interest exists after all in these equivocal produc- tions , the sacrifice would not seem a great one . - powers to ... interests out of our own immediate circle . We are disposed to protest against the uncomfortable vacillation between ...
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Էջ 83 - This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them : and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Էջ 71 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows! Each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe...
Էջ 430 - Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch — stitch — stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt.
Էջ 105 - Then let us study to preserve it so : and while Hope pictures to us a flattering scene of future bliss, let us deny its pencil those colours which are too bright to be lasting.
Էջ 382 - I had always been fond of beautiful gardens ; and, a gardener, who had just come from the King's gardens at Kew, gave such a description of them as made me instantly resolve to work in these gardens.
Էջ 427 - A penniless lass wi' a lang pedigree. His wig was weel pouther'd and as gude as new; His waistcoat was white, his coat it was blue: He put on a ring, a sword, and cock'd hat, — And wha could refuse the Laird wi' a
Էջ 71 - How could communities Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows...
Էջ 382 - The book was so different from anything that I had ever read before : it was something so new to my mind, that, though I could not at all understand some of it, it delighted me beyond description ; and it produced what I have always considered a sort of birth of intellect.
Էջ 104 - I should think might as well be let alone. Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Էջ 73 - Your obligation to obey this law, is its being the law of your nature. That your conscience approves of and attests to such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation. Conscience does not only offer itself to show us the way we should walk in, but it likewise carries its own authority with it, that it is our natural guide, the guide assigned us by the Author of our nature...