The Living Age, Band 269Living Age Company, 1911 |
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... shall we find its characteristics- to be ? One cannot deny its cleverness , in some instances its originality and freshness , its vivid power of word- painting , its frankness , carried some- times to the 6 Democracy in English Fiction .
... shall we find its characteristics- to be ? One cannot deny its cleverness , in some instances its originality and freshness , its vivid power of word- painting , its frankness , carried some- times to the 6 Democracy in English Fiction .
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painting , its frankness , carried some- times to the point of impropriety , and its ease , accompanied very often by bad vulgar English and slipshod gram- mar . It is curious how our old favor- ite Punch seems to reflect the charac ...
painting , its frankness , carried some- times to the point of impropriety , and its ease , accompanied very often by bad vulgar English and slipshod gram- mar . It is curious how our old favor- ite Punch seems to reflect the charac ...
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... carry it out . But what strikes one in the majority of our mod- ern works of fiction is a total lack of nobility . After all , what constitutes nobility ? Surely it is having a noble aim . It might be said , and very likely may have ...
... carry it out . But what strikes one in the majority of our mod- ern works of fiction is a total lack of nobility . After all , what constitutes nobility ? Surely it is having a noble aim . It might be said , and very likely may have ...
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... carried him further , for immediately after his speech his natural manner and mien returned and he resumed his or- dinary life , just as if he had not ex- pended so much strain in his oratori- cal effort . Sometimes he would , after ...
... carried him further , for immediately after his speech his natural manner and mien returned and he resumed his or- dinary life , just as if he had not ex- pended so much strain in his oratori- cal effort . Sometimes he would , after ...
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... carry about with her an atmosphere of freshness , yet as she stood thus , arrayed in clinging folds of rusty black , her un- kempt head fiercely poised , face and figure were alike invested with a cer- tain tragic beauty . David ...
... carry about with her an atmosphere of freshness , yet as she stood thus , arrayed in clinging folds of rusty black , her un- kempt head fiercely poised , face and figure were alike invested with a cer- tain tragic beauty . David ...
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Seite 655 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Seite 88 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Seite 80 - And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Seite 724 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Seite 306 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Seite 276 - said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor. And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller's head: And he smote upon the door again a second time;
Seite 655 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Seite 80 - For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
Seite 610 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Seite 188 - Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.