The Aftermath: Or, Gleanings from a Busy Life. Called Upon the Outer Cover for Purposes of Sale, Calibans̓ Guide to Letters

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Duckworth & Company, 1903 - 194 стор.
 

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Сторінка 95 - A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke ; And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke.
Сторінка 166 - Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman Shall e'er have power upon thee." Then fly, false thanes, And mingle with the English epicures: The mind I sway by and the heart I bear Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.
Сторінка 168 - FEAR no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Сторінка 150 - ... of an interview between him and his medical adviser, which we think thoroughly explains the present deadlock in Imperial affairs. We are assured upon oath that he was in bed when the doctor called just before noon yesterday, and that the following dialogue took place : — MINISTER (in bed) — Good morning, Doctor, I am glad to see you. What can I do for you ? . . . I mean, I am glad to see you. Pray excuse the inadvertence of my phrase, it is one that I have lately had to use not a little....
Сторінка 168 - ... stiffened in the grass," though they be by all this infinitely stronger, yet are they but the more condensed and self-belittled/ Shakespeare will write you ten lines and have in all but one just and sharp adjective — " stiff-set ; " for the rest they are a common highway ; he cares not. And here he is in the by-paths ; a meadow of Poesy. I have found it hidden away in one of the latter plays ; the flowers of his decline :— " Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages...
Сторінка 6 - Show me the man hour by hour in his own home, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and I will tell you what manner of man he is.
Сторінка 23 - ... the article. The Editor, as luck would have it, was somewhat annoyed by this, and the reason soon appeared when he proceeded to say that the author was another Charles after all, and not the Mr. Charles who was standing for Parliament. He asked whether the original review could still be retained, in which the book, it will be remembered, had been treated with some severity. " I am afraid it has been destroyed, but I shall be very happy to write another, and I will make it really scathing. You...
Сторінка 17 - REVIEWING. THE ancient and honourable art of Reviewing is, without question, the most important branch of that great calling which we term the " Career of Letters." As it is the most important, so also it is the first which a man of letters should learn. It is at once his shield and his weapon. A thorough knowledge of Reviewing, both theoretical and applied, will give a man more popularity...
Сторінка 45 - Caesarists, Lazarists, Catholics, Protestants, Agnostics and militant atheists, as also all you Churchmen, Nonconformists, Particularists, very strong secularists, and even you, my well-beloved little brethren called The Peculiar People, give ear attentively and listen to what is to follow, and you shall learn more of a matter that has wofully disturbed you than ever you would get from the Daily Mail or from Mynheer van Damm, or even from Dr. Biggies

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