Littell's Living Age, Volumen88Living Age Company Incorporated, 1866 |
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... Jane Eyre , or Maggie Tulliver , or Lady Audley , or Consuelo , would seem too like weird ghosts from the nightmare ... Austen's popularity has survived that of many writers of her time , whose merits were perhaps greater in themselves ...
... Jane Eyre , or Maggie Tulliver , or Lady Audley , or Consuelo , would seem too like weird ghosts from the nightmare ... Austen's popularity has survived that of many writers of her time , whose merits were perhaps greater in themselves ...
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... Jane Austen's novels ? If you had done this the world would gradually have come to rights ; your room would not appear so dark , nor your dooks so repellant , nor all your relatives so very stupid . It would never have occured to you ...
... Jane Austen's novels ? If you had done this the world would gradually have come to rights ; your room would not appear so dark , nor your dooks so repellant , nor all your relatives so very stupid . It would never have occured to you ...
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... Jane Austen is inconsistencies of conduct are multiplied , pre - eminently the novelist who attains by and a false ... Jane Austen's quick , clear , and yet , truly , not all - important , emotion of faultless reading off of whatever she ...
... Jane Austen is inconsistencies of conduct are multiplied , pre - eminently the novelist who attains by and a false ... Jane Austen's quick , clear , and yet , truly , not all - important , emotion of faultless reading off of whatever she ...
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... Austen's own was a very ordinary childhood , said Goethe to Eckermann , is inborn with and not one likely to attract ... Jane Austen reflects , she is moved to it upon the impulse or occasion of what she has observed . George Eliot medi ...
... Austen's own was a very ordinary childhood , said Goethe to Eckermann , is inborn with and not one likely to attract ... Jane Austen reflects , she is moved to it upon the impulse or occasion of what she has observed . George Eliot medi ...
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... Jane Austen opment of character in Miss Austen's novels there is earnest and faultless realism , and is not broad . The baronet , the officer , the the masterful quiet of conscious power ; lawyer , the rector , the rector's wife , and ...
... Jane Austen opment of character in Miss Austen's novels there is earnest and faultless realism , and is not broad . The baronet , the officer , the the masterful quiet of conscious power ; lawyer , the rector , the rector's wife , and ...
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Página 248 - When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die: ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Página 247 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 248 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Página 408 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.
Página 169 - For the writings of these Mystics acted in no slight degree to prevent my mind from being imprisoned within the outline of any single dogmatic system. They contributed to keep alive the heart in the head; gave me an indistinct, yet stirring and working presentiment, that all the products of the mere reflective faculty partook of death...
Página 242 - Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength...
Página 164 - Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures,- love and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Página 89 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war; upon church and state — not their alliance but their separation — on the spirit of the world and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had 'inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Página 79 - Listen to the wond'rous story, Which they chant in hymns of joy ; " Glory in the highest, glory ! Glory be to God most high...
Página 167 - Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge from whence all the ideas we have or can naturally have do spring.