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Page 8 - Mr. Thackeray has selected for his hero a very noble type of the cavalier softening into the man of the eighteenth century, and for his heroine one of the sweetest women that ever breathed from canvas or from, book since Raffaelle painted and Shakspeare wrote. The style is manly, clear, terse, and vigorous, reflecting every mood — pathetic, graphic, or sarcastic— of the writer."— Spectator.
Page 19 - I'll swear you are no sailor, Blue jacket or no, Brass buttons or no, sailor, Anchor and crown or no! Sure his ship was the Jolly Briton ' — ' Speak low, woman, speak low ! ' ' And why should I speak low, sailor, About my own boy John? If I was loud as I am proud I'd sing him over the town! Why should I speak low, sailor ? '
Page 4 - Considered as an illustrated volume, this is the most remarkable which Mr. Ruskin has yet issued. The plates and woodcuts are profuse, and include numerous drawings of mountain form by the author, which prove Mr. Ruskin to be essentially an artist. He is an unique man , both among artists and writers.
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Page 20 - How's my boy — my boy? What care I for the ship, sailor? I was never aboard her. Be she afloat or be she aground, Sinking or swimming, I'll be bound, Her owners can afford her. I say, how's my John ? ' ' Every man on board went down, Every man aboard her.
Page 16 - VI.— WHAT AM I? WHERE AM I? WHAT OUGHT I TO DO ? &c. Is. sewed.
Page 13 - Of the Topes opened in various parts of India none have yielded so rich a harvest of important information as those of Bhilsa, opened by Major Cunningham and Lieut. Maisey ; and which are described, with an abundance of highly curious graphic illustrations, in this most interesting book."— Examiner.
Page 12 - English literature by its manly feeling, direct, unaffected manner of writing, and nicely managed, wellturned narrative. The descriptions are excellent ; some of the country painting is as fresh as a landscape by Constable, or an idyl by Alfred Tennyson.
Page 13 - Quaint, curious, and amusing, this volume describes, from old manuscripts and obscure books the life of English merchants in an Indian Factory. It contains fresh and amusing gossip, all bearing on events and characters of historical importance."— Athenaum.