Appletons' Journal, Volume 8D. Appleton and Company, 1880 - American literature |
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... daughter , eighteen years old , who was be- witchingly pretty . How and where Monsieur Corneuil made her acquaintance , the chronicle does not say ; it tells us merely that this bear was very susceptible , and was determined to pur- sue ...
... daughter , eighteen years old , who was be- witchingly pretty . How and where Monsieur Corneuil made her acquaintance , the chronicle does not say ; it tells us merely that this bear was very susceptible , and was determined to pur- sue ...
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... daughter - in - law a girl sprung from no one knows where ; the daughter of a man of ruined reputation , who married an insignificant man , and separated from him that she might have her own way in Paris ; a woman whose name has been ...
... daughter - in - law a girl sprung from no one knows where ; the daughter of a man of ruined reputation , who married an insignificant man , and separated from him that she might have her own way in Paris ; a woman whose name has been ...
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... daughter , and reading the inmost recesses of her heart . She undertook to unravel her confused ideas , and to reveal to her her unacknowledged wishes , and took charge of them . That was the secret of her influence , which was ...
... daughter , and reading the inmost recesses of her heart . She undertook to unravel her confused ideas , and to reveal to her her unacknowledged wishes , and took charge of them . That was the secret of her influence , which was ...
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... daughter of such a mother , and that from that red hair comes all those beautiful , fair locks ? There is no denying , her beauty irri- tates and exasperates me . If I were forty years younger , I would be one of her suitors . Really ...
... daughter of such a mother , and that from that red hair comes all those beautiful , fair locks ? There is no denying , her beauty irri- tates and exasperates me . If I were forty years younger , I would be one of her suitors . Really ...
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... daughter is a strange being ; she is full of noble enthusiasm which she carries at times to exaltation , and yet she is thor- oughly reasonable , very intelligent as regards the things of this world , and , at the same time , ice to her ...
... daughter is a strange being ; she is full of noble enthusiasm which she carries at times to exaltation , and yet she is thor- oughly reasonable , very intelligent as regards the things of this world , and , at the same time , ice to her ...
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Page 455 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Page 483 - To draw no envy, SHAKESPEARE, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much.
Page 283 - This moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep, that it takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature, that it needs a complex social machinery to set a writer in motion.
Page 397 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Page 82 - It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this : that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life ; that the greatness , of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life, — to the question : How to live.
Page 482 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Page 490 - Every reader knows the straight and narrow path as well as he knows a road in which he has gone backward and forward a hundred times. This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. And this miracle the tinker has wrought.
Page 67 - I consider my not being present at the sacrifice, as if I did not sacrifice.' CHAP. XIII. 1. Wang-sun Chia asked, saying, 'What is the meaning of the saying, "It is better to pay court to the furnace than to the south-west corner?'" 2. The Master said, 'Not so. He who offends against Heaven has none to whom he can pray.
Page 483 - He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such to-day as other plays should be ; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas...
Page 482 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature...