Literary SketchesS. Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Company, 1888 - 235 sider |
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... fact that in the midst of all that tale - telling and merriment , there was even then a skeleton in the cupboard in the form of deep suffering and discontent among the down - trodden peasant population . Shakspere is , in the main ...
... fact that in the midst of all that tale - telling and merriment , there was even then a skeleton in the cupboard in the form of deep suffering and discontent among the down - trodden peasant population . Shakspere is , in the main ...
Side 10
... fact that he is deficient in those emotional and sympathetic qualities which constitute pre- cisely the strength of Victor Hugo . If we praise Scott for his close grasp of facts and objective realities , we must remember also that he ...
... fact that he is deficient in those emotional and sympathetic qualities which constitute pre- cisely the strength of Victor Hugo . If we praise Scott for his close grasp of facts and objective realities , we must remember also that he ...
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... fact that he was a profound and subtle disputant , and very far from being the mere wild singer and vision- ary that some would now wish him to appear . This is well expressed by Dr. Garnett in his essay on Shelley : * " We must learn ...
... fact that he was a profound and subtle disputant , and very far from being the mere wild singer and vision- ary that some would now wish him to appear . This is well expressed by Dr. Garnett in his essay on Shelley : * " We must learn ...
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... fact is , that from the first Shelley was no doubter , honest or dishonest , but was filled with the absorbing conviction that while all religious dogma is false and injurious , man may yet attain to perfection by the light of his own ...
... fact is , that from the first Shelley was no doubter , honest or dishonest , but was filled with the absorbing conviction that while all religious dogma is false and injurious , man may yet attain to perfection by the light of his own ...
Side 33
... fact that the perfectibility of man is a mere dream , we should accept such a conclusion with sober and saddened hearts , and at least refrain from railing at those whose utmost crime it has been to think too well of their fellow ...
... fact that the perfectibility of man is a mere dream , we should accept such a conclusion with sober and saddened hearts , and at least refrain from railing at those whose utmost crime it has been to think too well of their fellow ...
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Side 136 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Side 130 - I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with; the dollar is innocent, but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance.
Side 3 - I will be wise, And just and free, and mild, if in me lies Such power ; for I grow weary to behold The selfish and the strong still tyrannize Without reproach or check.
Side 97 - SURPRISED by joy — impatient as the Wind I turned to share the transport — Oh ! with whom But Thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find ? Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind — But how could I forget thee ! Through what power, Even for the least division of an hour, Have I been so beguiled as to be blind To my most grievous loss...
Side 11 - ... whom others gave Bibles to and no help ; wrote or studied again, or read to his wife and friends the whole evening ; took a crust of bread, or a glass of whey for his supper ; and went early to bed.
Side 23 - I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a certain use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about...
Side 32 - In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet, even then, it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.
Side 83 - Fair are others ; none beholds thee. But thy voice sounds low and tender, Like the fairest, for it folds thee From the sight, that liquid splendour,— And all feel...
Side 179 - 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.
Side 148 - Think of him,— of his rare qualities !— such a man as it takes ages to make, and ages to understand ; no mock hero, nor the representative of any party. A man such as the sun may not rise upon again in this benighted land. To whose making went the costliest material, the finest adamant ; sent to be the redeemer of those in captivity ; and the only use to which you can put him is to hang him at the end of a rope...