National Review, Том 11Robert Theobold, 1860 |
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... Italian refugee sees her and falls in love with her at first sight , and she returns his passion . But as her father ... Italian is his daughter's lover ; but he gets dreadfully bored with the ardent affection the stranger shows for him ...
... Italian refugee sees her and falls in love with her at first sight , and she returns his passion . But as her father ... Italian is his daughter's lover ; but he gets dreadfully bored with the ardent affection the stranger shows for him ...
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... Italian declines any explanation , and a duel is arranged . On the ground , one of the seconds of the Italian steps forward and says , that if no terms can be agreed on , the duel must proceed ; but that the honour of Mdlle . Bitterlin ...
... Italian declines any explanation , and a duel is arranged . On the ground , one of the seconds of the Italian steps forward and says , that if no terms can be agreed on , the duel must proceed ; but that the honour of Mdlle . Bitterlin ...
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... Italy . The ma- terials thus provided him forced him to be grave ; and he had the taste not to spoil good tragedy with bad comedy . The ease and brevity with which the story is told contribute greatly to the effect it produces . But its ...
... Italy . The ma- terials thus provided him forced him to be grave ; and he had the taste not to spoil good tragedy with bad comedy . The ease and brevity with which the story is told contribute greatly to the effect it produces . But its ...
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... Italian summer . As we read the story , we scarcely stop to notice the art with which this evening - scene is let into the framework of the story . For a few hours Tolla is happy , and Lello is not very unworthy of her . The count and ...
... Italian summer . As we read the story , we scarcely stop to notice the art with which this evening - scene is let into the framework of the story . For a few hours Tolla is happy , and Lello is not very unworthy of her . The count and ...
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... Italy . The country would not suffer from it more or less than a veteran suffers from a ball that his surgeon has for- gotten to extract . " Good - humoured contempt can scarcely go further than this . So far as the style of such a work ...
... Italy . The country would not suffer from it more or less than a veteran suffers from a ball that his surgeon has for- gotten to extract . " Good - humoured contempt can scarcely go further than this . So far as the style of such a work ...
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Стр. 297 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Стр. 453 - It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age; or to insist on creating the semblance of a world out of airy matter, when, at every moment, the impalpable beauty of my soap-bubble was broken by the rude contact of some actual circumstance.
Стр. 461 - They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver.
Стр. 453 - ... the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek resolutely the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant. The fault was mine. The page of life that was spread out before me was so dull and commonplace only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. A better book than I shall ever write was there...
Стр. 514 - Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World. With narrative Illustrations, by ROBERT DALE OWEN. Post 8vo, Js. 6d. Spiritualism. — Debatable Land between this World and the Next.
Стр. 126 - In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind...
Стр. 478 - ... it would be, that the great want which mankind labors under, at this present period, is — Sleep ! The world should recline its vast head on the first convenient pillow, and take an age-long nap.