National Review, Том 11Robert Theobold, 1860 |
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... thing is too absurd and extravagant to let such criticism appear any thing but inapplicable prudery . The machinery by which this air of false and exceptional probability is created is exactly the same in the old comedy and in M ...
... thing is too absurd and extravagant to let such criticism appear any thing but inapplicable prudery . The machinery by which this air of false and exceptional probability is created is exactly the same in the old comedy and in M ...
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... thing but the silliest town gossip ; on which she very naturally remarks , that if that was all he had to say , it ... things to say to her ; but there were witnesses at the interview , and he was tongue- tied . Particularly there was a ...
... thing but the silliest town gossip ; on which she very naturally remarks , that if that was all he had to say , it ... things to say to her ; but there were witnesses at the interview , and he was tongue- tied . Particularly there was a ...
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... thing , and yet where the effect goes beyond any thing that style alone can produce , because the matter lends weight to the style . There is , for instance , a description of the Roman lottery system , which is somewhat tinged perhaps ...
... thing , and yet where the effect goes beyond any thing that style alone can produce , because the matter lends weight to the style . There is , for instance , a description of the Roman lottery system , which is somewhat tinged perhaps ...
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... things ; it is only when a novelist works as hard as ordinary dry politicians work that his book is instructive and ... thing severe of fugitive productions like his last , we may express a hope that when he next takes up his pen he may ...
... things ; it is only when a novelist works as hard as ordinary dry politicians work that his book is instructive and ... thing severe of fugitive productions like his last , we may express a hope that when he next takes up his pen he may ...
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... thing tends to diversity and number ; the minds of inquirers are oc- cupied with the vast variety of substances , the vast variety of forces . But in still maturer age every thing tends to bring us back to the original simplicity of ...
... thing tends to diversity and number ; the minds of inquirers are oc- cupied with the vast variety of substances , the vast variety of forces . But in still maturer age every thing tends to bring us back to the original simplicity of ...
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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. 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.