The Lamp: A Review and Record of Current Literature, Volume 29Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 |
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... feeling of being in a cool leafy tunnel . There is a succession of inspiring out- looks over the valley and down into the deeps of the tree - filled cañons . Way beyond in the hazy dis- tance lies Tamalpais keep- ing watch over the ...
... feeling of being in a cool leafy tunnel . There is a succession of inspiring out- looks over the valley and down into the deeps of the tree - filled cañons . Way beyond in the hazy dis- tance lies Tamalpais keep- ing watch over the ...
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... feelings and keenly interested in every- thing ; she lives but a few doors away , and spends much of her time with the members of the Dickens family , who idolize her . As one watches her serene countenance and listens to her pleasant ...
... feelings and keenly interested in every- thing ; she lives but a few doors away , and spends much of her time with the members of the Dickens family , who idolize her . As one watches her serene countenance and listens to her pleasant ...
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... feelings the men and wo- men equal if they do not surpass those of our intimate circle . In Cuchulain him- self , we have a hero moulded from plas- tic material , and chiefly winning be- cause there is about him so little of the ...
... feelings the men and wo- men equal if they do not surpass those of our intimate circle . In Cuchulain him- self , we have a hero moulded from plas- tic material , and chiefly winning be- cause there is about him so little of the ...
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... feeling for sensuous beauty . But pursuit of these less tan- gible things might have diverted him from his true aim , which was to make his figures look simply human and natural , to portray , above all else , character . This most ...
... feeling for sensuous beauty . But pursuit of these less tan- gible things might have diverted him from his true aim , which was to make his figures look simply human and natural , to portray , above all else , character . This most ...
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... feeling for the life of the vagabond ; he relished the grotesque elements in it , and sketched it in “ Pablo ” with so racy a touch that the story gains new vitality from his embellishment of it . Yet so wide was his scope that it may ...
... feeling for the life of the vagabond ; he relished the grotesque elements in it , and sketched it in “ Pablo ” with so racy a touch that the story gains new vitality from his embellishment of it . Yet so wide was his scope that it may ...
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Página 98 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Página 412 - Take heed of an unactive vain spirit ! Recreate yourself with Sir Walter Raleigh's History : it's a Body of History ; and will add much more to your understanding than fragments of Story.
Página 22 - An old looking-glass. Somebody finds out the secret of making all the images that have been reflected in it pass back again across its surface.
Página 36 - I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends upon their experience of me in addition...
Página 209 - If I were a woman, I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not...
Página 253 - OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the different Styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past in England and Abroad, to which is added a List of 10,000 Makers.
Página 21 - A person to be writing a tale, and to find that it shapes itself against his intentions ; that the characters act otherwise than he thought ; that unforeseen events occur ; and a catastrophe comes which he strives in vain to avert.
Página 502 - ... dealing with the Ohio River in the Revolution, the rise of the cities of Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and Louisville, the fighting Virginians, the old-time methods of navigation, etc. "A wonderfully comprehensive and entirely fascinating book.