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... matter ; they were too tarabiscoté , as I once heard him say of the style of a book- had on the surface too many little flowers and knots of ribbon . He had read a great deal of English , and knew the language remarkably well - too well ...
... matter ; they were too tarabiscoté , as I once heard him say of the style of a book- had on the surface too many little flowers and knots of ribbon . He had read a great deal of English , and knew the language remarkably well - too well ...
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... matter , knowing perfectly well when they failed . During those months which it was Flaubert's habit to spend in Par ... matters radicals of the deep- est dye . It would have been late in the day to propose among them any discus- sion of ...
... matter , knowing perfectly well when they failed . During those months which it was Flaubert's habit to spend in Par ... matters radicals of the deep- est dye . It would have been late in the day to propose among them any discus- sion of ...
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... matter , to be artful . Yet at the same time that I make this suggestion as to Turgénieff's state of mind , I remember how little he struck me as bound by mere neatness of formula , how little there was in him of the partisan or the ...
... matter , to be artful . Yet at the same time that I make this suggestion as to Turgénieff's state of mind , I remember how little he struck me as bound by mere neatness of formula , how little there was in him of the partisan or the ...
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... matter of course , there was almost always some young Russian in whom he was interested , and refugees and pilgrims of both sexes were his nat- ural clients . I have heard it said , by persons who had known him long and well , that ...
... matter of course , there was almost always some young Russian in whom he was interested , and refugees and pilgrims of both sexes were his nat- ural clients . I have heard it said , by persons who had known him long and well , that ...
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... matter ? " asked Gigi . " It is nothing , Gigi , " I answered , for I was afraid lest he should betray my secret , if I let him guess it . " It is nothing . I struck my foot against a stone . But you were telling about a foreigner who ...
... matter ? " asked Gigi . " It is nothing , Gigi , " I answered , for I was afraid lest he should betray my secret , if I let him guess it . " It is nothing . I struck my foot against a stone . But you were telling about a foreigner who ...
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Página 427 - Dilke on various subjects; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason...
Página 98 - Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And, when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.
Página 424 - This morning I am in a sort of temper, indolent and supremely careless — I long after a stanza or two of Thomson's Castle of Indolence — my passions are all asleep, from my having slumbered till nearly eleven, and weakened the animal fibre all over me, to a delightful sensation, about three degrees on this side of faintness. If I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor, but as I am* I must call it laziness.
Página 429 - The little dramatic skill I may as yet have, however badly it might show in a drama, would, I think, be sufficient for a poem. I wish to diffuse the colouring of St. Agnes' Eve throughout a poem in which character and sentiment would be the figures to such drapery.
Página 201 - If you choose to play ! — is my principle. Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will!
Página 646 - That general life, which does not cease, Whose secret is not joy, but peace; That life, whose dumb wish is not miss'd If birth proceeds, if things subsist; The life of plants, and stones, and rain, The life he craves — if not in vain Fate gave, what chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
Página 239 - Through God we shall do valiantly : for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Página 648 - Flow'd with the stream ; — all down his cold white side The crimson torrent ran, dim now and soil'd, Like the soil'd tissue of white violets Left, freshly...
Página 646 - But be his My special thanks, whose even-balanced soul, From first youth tested up to extreme old age, Business could not make dull, nor passion wild ; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole ; The mellow glory of the Attic stage, Singer of sweet Colonus, and its child.
Página 427 - This pursued through volumes would perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.