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Page 147
There is ingenuity , but no great grasp of passion or power in this tale ; some of
the characters are spirited , but they are superficially drawn , and , when we close
the. * Thus Dryden ' s Portraiture of Shaftesbury ( “ Absalom and Architophel ...
There is ingenuity , but no great grasp of passion or power in this tale ; some of
the characters are spirited , but they are superficially drawn , and , when we close
the. * Thus Dryden ' s Portraiture of Shaftesbury ( “ Absalom and Architophel ...
Page 148
Yet Jonathan is ably represented : and other characters there are in the book
which attest the writer ' s vigour and comprehensive skill - as Lotte Steinmark , the
winsome German Fräulein , and Lucy Bligh , and Aunt Clio — ( great is Mrs ...
Yet Jonathan is ably represented : and other characters there are in the book
which attest the writer ' s vigour and comprehensive skill - as Lotte Steinmark , the
winsome German Fräulein , and Lucy Bligh , and Aunt Clio — ( great is Mrs ...
Page 149
The effect of this beneficial tendency was , however , as in so many other
instances of Mrs . Trollope ' s polemical ventures , marred and disabled by the
bitterness of the medium employed for its exhibition , ” as doctors say . The
character of ...
The effect of this beneficial tendency was , however , as in so many other
instances of Mrs . Trollope ' s polemical ventures , marred and disabled by the
bitterness of the medium employed for its exhibition , ” as doctors say . The
character of ...
Page 150
About the same time , however , Mrs . Trollope played the literary chaperon to a
lady of real character and definite idiosyncrasy — one who stands out as a
distinct and living form among the accepted celebrities of the English novel . And
this is ...
About the same time , however , Mrs . Trollope played the literary chaperon to a
lady of real character and definite idiosyncrasy — one who stands out as a
distinct and living form among the accepted celebrities of the English novel . And
this is ...
Page 151
Then she is ably played up to by the other characters , in whose portraiture
unwonted skill is apparent : Agnes ... minuteness and frequent pathos ; but it is
deficient , to a marked degree , in action , in probability , in character , and in
finish .
Then she is ably played up to by the other characters , in whose portraiture
unwonted skill is apparent : Agnes ... minuteness and frequent pathos ; but it is
deficient , to a marked degree , in action , in probability , in character , and in
finish .
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Page 315 - And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear, until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
Page 462 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 313 - Gentle Henrietta then, And a third Mary next began, Then Joan and Jane and Audria, And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Catherine, And then a long
Page 279 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Page 427 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 146 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 241 - Journal, which is a very extraordinary production *, and of a most melancholy truth in all that regards high life in England. I know, or knew personally, most of the personages and societies which he describes ; and after reading his remarks, have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday. I would however plead in behalf of some few exceptions, which I will mention by and by.
Page 489 - We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest action looks mean ; as we turn the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy.
Page 426 - Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times ; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Page 488 - ... like fate. He performed a treason or a court-bow, he told a falsehood as black as Styx, as easily as he paid a compliment or spoke about the weather. He took a mistress, and left her; he betrayed his benefactor, and supported him, or would have murdered him, with the same calmness always, and having no more remorse than Clotho when she weaves the thread, or Lachesis when she cuts it In the hour of battle I have heard the Prince of Savoy's officers say, the Prince became possessed with a sort...