The Bookman, Volume 17Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903 |
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... less pronounced , but amounts to little more than the idle curi- osity which Americans are prone to show for the latest " novelty " from the other side . The Count understands America not in the least , and it is idle to suppose that he ...
... less pronounced , but amounts to little more than the idle curi- osity which Americans are prone to show for the latest " novelty " from the other side . The Count understands America not in the least , and it is idle to suppose that he ...
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... less desirable than the twelve hundred francs edition , if we omit the binding . Editions are also sold for two francs a volume . None of Poe's poems are known in France . In fact , but very few of our poets are known in this country ...
... less desirable than the twelve hundred francs edition , if we omit the binding . Editions are also sold for two francs a volume . None of Poe's poems are known in France . In fact , but very few of our poets are known in this country ...
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... less by the imaginary merits of the fiction , though these obtained unmeasured commendation , than by the in- herent vices of the work . Its unblushing falsehood was its chief passport to popular acceptance , but however acquired , she ...
... less by the imaginary merits of the fiction , though these obtained unmeasured commendation , than by the in- herent vices of the work . Its unblushing falsehood was its chief passport to popular acceptance , but however acquired , she ...
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... less a medley of every possible species- " true comedy , farce , pantomime , opéra - bouffe , ballet , fairy spectacle , political satire , literary satire ; " and yet , in the course of less than a century , little by little , whatever ...
... less a medley of every possible species- " true comedy , farce , pantomime , opéra - bouffe , ballet , fairy spectacle , political satire , literary satire ; " and yet , in the course of less than a century , little by little , whatever ...
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... less importance , since there are now " border - lights " and " bunch - lights , " and since the whole stage can be flooded with a sudden glare or instantly plunged in darkness at the turn of a handle or two . The space that used to ...
... less importance , since there are now " border - lights " and " bunch - lights , " and since the whole stage can be flooded with a sudden glare or instantly plunged in darkness at the turn of a handle or two . The space that used to ...
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Página 561 - Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbow'd.
Página 224 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Página 300 - I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding.
Página 278 - No more firing was heard at Brussels — the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.
Página 366 - My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of fact, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.
Página 561 - Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate : I am the captain of my soul.
Página 328 - Perhaps the eighteen months which I passed in this condition, walking to and fro on those miserably dirty lanes, was the worst period of my life. I was now over fifteen, and had come to an age at which I could appreciate at its full the misery of expulsion from all social intercourse. I had not only no friends, but was despised by all my companions.
Página 141 - strange yearning That such souls have, most to lavish Where there's chance of least returning." Oh, we're sunk enough here, God knows! But not quite so sunk that moments, Sure though seldom, are denied us, When the spirit's true endowments Stand out plainly from its false ones, And apprise it if pursuing Or the right way or the wrong way, To its triumph or undoing.
Página 367 - I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.