Littell's Living Age, Volume 176Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1888 - Literature |
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... seemed as if the great house of Moss and Daverel was fated to die out , unless its present head thought fit to take in part- ners from the large and efficient staff in order to keep the concern going , much on the same principle as ...
... seemed as if the great house of Moss and Daverel was fated to die out , unless its present head thought fit to take in part- ners from the large and efficient staff in order to keep the concern going , much on the same principle as ...
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... seemed quite sure of it also . Many were the condolences offered her upon the horrors of war and the special and melan- choly interest which she must take in the present campaign , many were the inquiries after the absent one , until at ...
... seemed quite sure of it also . Many were the condolences offered her upon the horrors of war and the special and melan- choly interest which she must take in the present campaign , many were the inquiries after the absent one , until at ...
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... seemed to the girl as if she spoke by inspiration , as if scales had fallen from her eyes , and she was able to look straight into this man's soul . " We will be friends , " - exorable laws of the Congress , it would be impossible 16 ...
... seemed to the girl as if she spoke by inspiration , as if scales had fallen from her eyes , and she was able to look straight into this man's soul . " We will be friends , " - exorable laws of the Congress , it would be impossible 16 ...
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... seemed to him an almost thankless and hopeless task , the elevation and regener- ation of his race . A negro of the ne- groes , and keenly alive to their sufferings , their shortcomings , and their vices , he has , nevertheless , an ...
... seemed to him an almost thankless and hopeless task , the elevation and regener- ation of his race . A negro of the ne- groes , and keenly alive to their sufferings , their shortcomings , and their vices , he has , nevertheless , an ...
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... seemed to me then , supposed to become his servants in an- and seems to me still , upon the whole , to other world . Those killed at intervals have been so beneficial a revival of East- afterwards are supposed to be messengers ern life ...
... seemed to me then , supposed to become his servants in an- and seems to me still , upon the whole , to other world . Those killed at intervals have been so beneficial a revival of East- afterwards are supposed to be messengers ern life ...
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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.
Page 404 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
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.