Stanley: Or, The Recollections of a Man of the World, 1권Lea & Blanchard, 1838 |
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... become master of my subject , and could see my way clearly before me . I resumed my pen with undiminished ardour on the follow- ing day , and soon found that what I had taken up as a painful task , was become a pleasing occupation . My ...
... become master of my subject , and could see my way clearly before me . I resumed my pen with undiminished ardour on the follow- ing day , and soon found that what I had taken up as a painful task , was become a pleasing occupation . My ...
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... become vocal gracefully . For weeks and months I went on in perfect enthusiasm , familiarizing to my mind the elevated conceptions of the old masters of the lyre , and instructing it by severe but grateful discipline to pro- duce the ...
... become vocal gracefully . For weeks and months I went on in perfect enthusiasm , familiarizing to my mind the elevated conceptions of the old masters of the lyre , and instructing it by severe but grateful discipline to pro- duce the ...
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... becomes irresistibly strong . So I found it with myself : like the woodman , who in felling an oak , gives the second stroke without waiting for the echoes of the first , I paused not to listen to the re- marks upon this work before ...
... becomes irresistibly strong . So I found it with myself : like the woodman , who in felling an oak , gives the second stroke without waiting for the echoes of the first , I paused not to listen to the re- marks upon this work before ...
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... become a mere catalogue of particulars ; he would have formed at this time as singular a curiosity in a cabinet of moral rarities as any specimen in his phy- sical collection . " Sir , " said I , " do you know Mr. Seward ? " " Seward ...
... become a mere catalogue of particulars ; he would have formed at this time as singular a curiosity in a cabinet of moral rarities as any specimen in his phy- sical collection . " Sir , " said I , " do you know Mr. Seward ? " " Seward ...
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... become monotoned to querulousness , " too bad that they should take their places above us at the dinner - table . I wish , my dear , that you would speak to the keeper of the house . They have no right there . You must prevent it ...
... become monotoned to querulousness , " too bad that they should take their places above us at the dinner - table . I wish , my dear , that you would speak to the keeper of the house . They have no right there . You must prevent it ...
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55 페이지 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
109 페이지 - ... motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.
15 페이지 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
203 페이지 - For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
258 페이지 - I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow Strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
22 페이지 - Tis strange — even those who do despair above, Yet shape themselves some fantasy on earth, To which frail twig they cling, like drowning men. Man. Ay — father ! I have had those earthly visions And noble aspirations in my youth, To make my own the mind of other men, The enlightener of nations ; and to rise I knew not whither — it might be to fall ; But fall, even as the mountain-cataract, Which having leapt from its more dazzling height, Even in the foaming strength of its abyss, (Which casts...
121 페이지 - Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had. He that striketh an instrument with skill may cause notwithstanding a very unpleasant sound, if the string whereon he striketh chance to be uncapable of harmony. In the matter whereof things...
258 페이지 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with.
238 페이지 - And wear, and lose them: yet remains an ear-ring To purchase them again, and this whole state. A gem but worth a private patrimony Is nothing: we will eat such at a meal. The heads of parrots, tongues of nightingales. The brains of peacocks and of...
258 페이지 - Among some other talk, in returning, he spoke with praise of Miss Ferrier as a novelist, and then with still higher praise of Miss Austen. Of the latter he said — ' I find myself every now and then with one of her books in my hand. There's a finishing-off in some of her scenes that is really quite above everybody else. And there's that Irish lady, too — but I forget everybody's name now' * Miss Edgeworth,' I said — ' Ay, Miss Edgeworth — she's very clever, and best in the little touches too.