National Review, Том 11Robert Theobold, 1860 |
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... interest that you should be said to be defeated , for then confidence will be restored , and travellers will again ... interests himself for a favour- ite . " He has no chance of rising in the regular way , " says Pericles ; but if you ...
... interest that you should be said to be defeated , for then confidence will be restored , and travellers will again ... interests himself for a favour- ite . " He has no chance of rising in the regular way , " says Pericles ; but if you ...
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... interest to the story ; and even if M. About did not invent the contrasted characters , the details of the delineation are all his , and it is by a number of little touches that the general im- pression is conveyed . At first Lello will ...
... interest to the story ; and even if M. About did not invent the contrasted characters , the details of the delineation are all his , and it is by a number of little touches that the general im- pression is conveyed . At first Lello will ...
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... interest the state of his own health and the ravages of the cholera supply a theme on which he can write with some ease to the lady of his love . It is characteristic both of the man and of the country to which he belongs , that he ...
... interest the state of his own health and the ravages of the cholera supply a theme on which he can write with some ease to the lady of his love . It is characteristic both of the man and of the country to which he belongs , that he ...
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... interest himself in a subject so important to his country ; but the statistics of the proposed improvements are very dry work . They are even made more dry by the introduction of a sort of faint story , and by the con- stant ...
... interest himself in a subject so important to his country ; but the statistics of the proposed improvements are very dry work . They are even made more dry by the introduction of a sort of faint story , and by the con- stant ...
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... interest . It would be interesting to inquire how far the stories in question are , like other mar- vellous stories , founded on fact ; how far it is possible that ani- mals like those told of may in fact have existed ; or , again , how ...
... interest . It would be interesting to inquire how far the stories in question are , like other mar- vellous stories , founded on fact ; how far it is possible that ani- mals like those told of may in fact have existed ; or , again , how ...
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Стр. 454 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
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Стр. 231 - Highness that it may be established and enacted by the authority aforesaid that such jurisdictions, privileges, superiorities and preeminences spiritual and ecclesiastical, as by any spiritual or ecclesiastical power or authority hath heretofore been or may lawfully be exercised or used for the visitation of the ecclesiastical state and persons, and for reformation, order and correction of the same and of all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempts and enormities, shall for...
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.