The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, Том 3Macmillan and Company, 1889 |
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... and interrupted Macaulay in his brilliant talk with , " Come , Macaulay , we have had enough of this , " must have been a somewhat alarming person . In most of the records of the HOLLAND HOUSE . ] THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . 3.
... and interrupted Macaulay in his brilliant talk with , " Come , Macaulay , we have had enough of this , " must have been a somewhat alarming person . In most of the records of the HOLLAND HOUSE . ] THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . 3.
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Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret). alarming person . In most of the records of the society which she collected round her , a sense of her somewhat arrogant superiority , her careless treatment of the distin- guished guests whose presence alone ...
Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret). alarming person . In most of the records of the society which she collected round her , a sense of her somewhat arrogant superiority , her careless treatment of the distin- guished guests whose presence alone ...
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... record . Few glimmers of genius , and not even much that could be called human individuality , the features that mark one man from another , are to be found in these productions . His biographer gives them at full length , and it has ...
... record . Few glimmers of genius , and not even much that could be called human individuality , the features that mark one man from another , are to be found in these productions . His biographer gives them at full length , and it has ...
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... record of events , and full of the hurry - scurry of society , the chatter of a noisy circle in which there is nothing great but the names that appear and reappear , but show little of either thought or feeling above the level of a ...
... record of events , and full of the hurry - scurry of society , the chatter of a noisy circle in which there is nothing great but the names that appear and reappear , but show little of either thought or feeling above the level of a ...
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... record of trivial things and talk , warped and made miserable by splenetic and reckless sentiment , and the chaos of an unregulated soul , it is with actual satisfaction that we see the end come . When the smoke and ashes clear off ...
... record of trivial things and talk , warped and made miserable by splenetic and reckless sentiment , and the chaos of an unregulated soul , it is with actual satisfaction that we see the end come . When the smoke and ashes clear off ...
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Сторінка 221 - With deep affection And recollection I often think on Those Shandon bells ; Whose sounds so wild would, In the days of childhood, Fling round my cradle Their magic spells. On thee I ponder Where'er I wander, And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork, of thee ; With thy
Сторінка 222 - the Tiber, Pealing solemnly Oh the bells of Shandon Sound far more grand on The pleasant waters Of the river Lee ! " There's a bell in Moscow ; While on tower and kiosk, 0, In Saint Sophia, The Turkman gets; And loud in air Calls
Сторінка 122 - her cold finger closer to her lips. Along the margin-sand large foot-marks went, No further than to where his feet had stray'd, And slept there since. Upon the sodden ground His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred ; and his realmless eyes were closed ; While his bow'd head seem'd listening to the Earth, His ancient mother, for some
Сторінка 49 - motionless and still; And as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.
Сторінка 155 - We brought away from battle, And much their land bemoaned them, Two thousand head of cattle, And the head of him that owned them. Ednyfed, King of Dyfed, His head was borne before us ; His wine and beasts supplied our feasts, And his overthrow our chorus.
Сторінка 128 - Oh, that I could be buried near where she lives. I am afraid to write to her, to receive a letter from her—to see her handwriting would break my heart, even to hear of her anyhow; to see her name written would be more than I can bear. . . . My dear Brown,
Сторінка 90 - widening labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Eome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the
Сторінка 62 - Phantom of Astarte. Manfred ! Man. Say on, say on— I live but in the sound—it is thy voice ! Phan. Manfred ! To-morrow ends thine earthly ills. Farewell! Man. Yet one word more—am I forgiven ? Phan. Farewell! Man. Say, shall we meet again ? Phan. Farewell ! Man. One word for mercy 1 Say, thou lovest me.
Сторінка 155 - Vawr will be found, if they chance to strike the reader's ear and fancy, to be one of those utterances of genius which prove applicable to all the circumstances of life. " The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter ; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition, We met a host and quelled it, We