Littell's Living Age, Volume 176Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1888 - Literature |
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... eye . To be explicit , it was for the sake of the apple of Mr. Daverel's eye that Wilfred Okedon had with infinite ... eyes , and his devil - may - care contempt for everything and everybody except just those which suited him for the ...
... eye . To be explicit , it was for the sake of the apple of Mr. Daverel's eye that Wilfred Okedon had with infinite ... eyes , and his devil - may - care contempt for everything and everybody except just those which suited him for the ...
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... eyes , his long lithe form and his popularity , his family pride and his family tree , the Honorable Wilfred Okedon was neither more nor less than afraid - not of Violet Daverel the beauty , nor of Violet the girl , but of Miss Daverel ...
... eyes , his long lithe form and his popularity , his family pride and his family tree , the Honorable Wilfred Okedon was neither more nor less than afraid - not of Violet Daverel the beauty , nor of Violet the girl , but of Miss Daverel ...
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... eyes , and in the cruel set of the rather large mouth , not made less pro- nounced by the heavy , square chin . Yes , it was an ugly face , yet one which might have been charming had the expression been pleasing . But the expression was ...
... eyes , and in the cruel set of the rather large mouth , not made less pro- nounced by the heavy , square chin . Yes , it was an ugly face , yet one which might have been charming had the expression been pleasing . But the expression was ...
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... eyes the last time she had seen said or implied that he is anything more . " them , the sob in his throat as he uttered In his relief Sir Piers set her free and that last word - darling ! She only re- stepped back to the window that he ...
... eyes the last time she had seen said or implied that he is anything more . " them , the sob in his throat as he uttered In his relief Sir Piers set her free and that last word - darling ! She only re- stepped back to the window that he ...
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... eyes high enough to see could by any possibility be Mrs. Barnes - when I announced that I was bringing her a silk dress . " But " A silk dress ! " she exclaimed . I don't think I have not ordered - - 99 " No , " I interrupted her , and ...
... eyes high enough to see could by any possibility be Mrs. Barnes - when I announced that I was bringing her a silk dress . " But " A silk dress ! " she exclaimed . I don't think I have not ordered - - 99 " No , " I interrupted her , and ...
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Page 218 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 405 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 361 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 424 - Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns!
Page 359 - IMLAC now felt the enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, "Enough! Thou hast convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet.
Page 357 - Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work ; but I was so anxious to avoid prejudice, that I determined not for some time to write even the briefest sketch of it. In June 1842 I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of 1844 into one of 230 pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess.
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Page 360 - I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit.
Page 260 - There is a passage in Hogg's capitally written and most interesting account of Shelley which I wrote down when I first read it and have borne in mind ever since; so beautifully it seemed to render the true Shelley. Hogg has been speaking of the intellectual expression of Shelley's features, and he goes on: "Nor was the moral expression less beautiful than the intellectual; for there was a softness, a delicacy, a gentleness, and especially (though this will surprise many) that air of profound religious...
Page 59 - But the truth is we are not to take Anna Karenine as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life. A piece of life it is. The author has not invented and combined it, he has seen it; it has all happened before his inward eye, and it was in this wise that it happened.