The Lamp: A Review and Record of Current Literature, Volume 29Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 |
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... tell the whole story : " A person to be in possession of something as perfect as mortal man has a right to demand ; he tries to make it better , and ruins it en tirely . " Sometimes the suggestion is merely fanciful , and too diaphanous ...
... tell the whole story : " A person to be in possession of something as perfect as mortal man has a right to demand ; he tries to make it better , and ruins it en tirely . " Sometimes the suggestion is merely fanciful , and too diaphanous ...
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... tell it simply as he has told his other stories . To the reader to whom a story is only a story - to the reader who is entertained only by what has happened and who is interested only in discovering how it turns out at last - perhaps ...
... tell it simply as he has told his other stories . To the reader to whom a story is only a story - to the reader who is entertained only by what has happened and who is interested only in discovering how it turns out at last - perhaps ...
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... tell the composition of anybody's blood in these parts ? -who is quite a character . He meets you at the station , but he does not buttonhole you . You are his as a matter of course . Where else would you want to go ? To go to Ephes- us ...
... tell the composition of anybody's blood in these parts ? -who is quite a character . He meets you at the station , but he does not buttonhole you . You are his as a matter of course . Where else would you want to go ? To go to Ephes- us ...
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... telling stories . " Emer , like Brynhild , cares little to remain in a world from which the king had de- parted , and kills herself that she may follow him promptly ; but in the last words of each we have again the con- trast between ...
... telling stories . " Emer , like Brynhild , cares little to remain in a world from which the king had de- parted , and kills herself that she may follow him promptly ; but in the last words of each we have again the con- trast between ...
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... tell the wayfarer in books that there are many trees within - such as the Tennyson , Dickens , Scott , and Beaconsfield trees- of which I have broken no twig and exposed no flower . Beside all this is the indefinable charm of the ...
... tell the wayfarer in books that there are many trees within - such as the Tennyson , Dickens , Scott , and Beaconsfield trees- of which I have broken no twig and exposed no flower . Beside all this is the indefinable charm of the ...
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Página 205 - JENNY kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.
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 414 - 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 504 - ... 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.