The Young Lady's Book of Elegant Prose: Comprising Selections from the Works of British and American AuthorsDesilver, Thomas & Company, 1836 - 320페이지 |
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... Scene at the Prytaneum , at Paris .. 33 Life of a Looking - Glass ..... 35 The Legend of the Saline River .. 44 The History of Betty Broom ... Heidelberg .. 47 54 Tasso's " Jerusalem Delivered , " 59 The Voyage of Magellan ..... 60 ...
... Scene at the Prytaneum , at Paris .. 33 Life of a Looking - Glass ..... 35 The Legend of the Saline River .. 44 The History of Betty Broom ... Heidelberg .. 47 54 Tasso's " Jerusalem Delivered , " 59 The Voyage of Magellan ..... 60 ...
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... scenes whereof he remembers rather the original charms than the exact proportions , how is he disappointed to find every thing so debased and so diminished ! The hills seem to have sunk into the ground , the brook to be dried up , and ...
... scenes whereof he remembers rather the original charms than the exact proportions , how is he disappointed to find every thing so debased and so diminished ! The hills seem to have sunk into the ground , the brook to be dried up , and ...
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... SCENE AT THE PRYTANEUM , AT PARIS . I PAID several visits to the Prytaneum . The first time , upon my arrival , the gate happened to be shut : the clock was striking one , and the pupils had just done dinner , when they are at liberty 3 ...
... SCENE AT THE PRYTANEUM , AT PARIS . I PAID several visits to the Prytaneum . The first time , upon my arrival , the gate happened to be shut : the clock was striking one , and the pupils had just done dinner , when they are at liberty 3 ...
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... scene which will never escape my memory . It was the hour at which the widowed mothers visit their sons . The parlour or hall was prepared for this purpose ; round it were placed at least a dozen small green tables , with chairs ...
... scene which will never escape my memory . It was the hour at which the widowed mothers visit their sons . The parlour or hall was prepared for this purpose ; round it were placed at least a dozen small green tables , with chairs ...
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... scene , I was very well contented with my quiet condition . The first object that I remember to have arrested my atten- tion , was , what I now believe must have been a large spider , which , after a vast deal of scampering about ...
... scene , I was very well contented with my quiet condition . The first object that I remember to have arrested my atten- tion , was , what I now believe must have been a large spider , which , after a vast deal of scampering about ...
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120 페이지 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
122 페이지 - ... human nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, That the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet.
121 페이지 - Shakespeare was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her as that she speaks through him.
76 페이지 - Mary's sufferings exceed, both in degree and in duration, those tragical distresses which fancy has feigned to excite sorrow and commiseration; and while we survey them, we are apt altogether to forget her frailties ; we think of her faults with less indignation, and approve of our tears as if they were shed for a person who had attained much nearer to pure virtue.
260 페이지 - There was the honest cock-robin, the favourite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds; and the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the...
122 페이지 - His sentiments are not only in general the most pertinent and judicious upon every subject; but by a talent very peculiar, something between penetration and felicity, he hits upon that particular point on which the bent of each argument turns, or the force of each motive depends.
151 페이지 - On the last day of his journey different accidents had retarded his progress; he was benighted before he reached the quarter in which La Roche resided. His guide, however, was well acquainted with the road, and he found himself at last in view of the lake, which I have before described, in the neighbourhood of La Roche's dwelling.
140 페이지 - MoRE than forty years ago, an English philosopher, whose works have since been read and admired by all Europe, resided at a little town in France. Some disappointments in his native country had first driven him abroad, and he was afterwards induced to remain there, from having found, in this retreat, where the...
76 페이지 - ... all contemporary authors agree in ascribing to Mary the utmost beauty of countenance and elegance of shape of which the human form is capable. Her hair was black, though, according to the fashion of that age, she frequently wore borrowed locks, and of different colours.
143 페이지 - I would not wish," continued the old man hesitatingly, " to think otherwise ; did I not look up with gratitude to that Being, I should barely be satisfied with my recovery as a continuation of life, which, it may be, is not a real good. Alas...