EtymoniaS. Tinsley, 1875 - 274 стор. |
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Сторінка 256 - This is a clever story, easily and naturally told, and the reader's interest sustained throughout. ... A pleasant, readable book, such as we can heartily recommend as likely to do good service in the dull and foggy days before us.
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Сторінка 247 - ... read it with curious interest, and sometimes with profound admiration. The author's imagination hath run mad, but often there is more in his philosophy than the world ma-y dream of We have read his work with almost equal feelings of pleasure, wonderment, and amusement, and this, we think, will be the feelings of most of its readers. On the whole, it is a book of remarkable novelty and unquestionable genius.
Сторінка 247 - Here is a work in certain respects one of the most singular in modern literature, which surpasses all of its class in bold and luxuriant imagination, in vivid descriptive power, in startling — not to say extravagant suggestions — in lofty and delicate moral sympathies. It is difficult to read it with a serious countenance : yet it is impossible not to read it with curious interest, and sometimes with profound admiration. The author's imagination hath run mad, but often there is more in his philosophy...
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Сторінка 2 - The author's kindliness is as conspicuous as his closeness of observation and fairness of judgment ; his sympathy with th3 people inspires his pen as happily as does his artistic appreciation of the country ; and both have combined in the production of a work of striking novelty and sterling value.