Appletons' Journal, Volume 8D. Appleton and Company, 1880 - American literature |
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... doubt it ? " 66 I love my mother dearly , " answered Horace quickly , " but I have always considered her to be a most reasonable woman . Evidently I did not go to work rightly ; I will write to her to- morrow and try to reconcile her to ...
... doubt it ? " 66 I love my mother dearly , " answered Horace quickly , " but I have always considered her to be a most reasonable woman . Evidently I did not go to work rightly ; I will write to her to- morrow and try to reconcile her to ...
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... doubt whether it really was during the reign of Apepi that Jo- seph , son of Jacob , came into Egypt ; then he reproached himself for his doubt , which came back to him the next moment . This contradic- tion grieved him greatly , for he ...
... doubt whether it really was during the reign of Apepi that Jo- seph , son of Jacob , came into Egypt ; then he reproached himself for his doubt , which came back to him the next moment . This contradic- tion grieved him greatly , for he ...
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... doubt about the whole matter . " It narratives about brave princes and beautiful is the story of the Sun and the Dawn , " says Mr. princesses who , apparently without sufficient rea- J. Thackray Bunce , in the latest work on the son ...
... doubt about the whole matter . " It narratives about brave princes and beautiful is the story of the Sun and the Dawn , " says Mr. princesses who , apparently without sufficient rea- J. Thackray Bunce , in the latest work on the son ...
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... doubt , represent a conquered province , just as Dacia is represented on one of Trajan's medals as a woman on her knees . How- ever this may be , out of the tradition sprang a story illustrative of Trajan's justice . On the point of ...
... doubt , represent a conquered province , just as Dacia is represented on one of Trajan's medals as a woman on her knees . How- ever this may be , out of the tradition sprang a story illustrative of Trajan's justice . On the point of ...
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... doubt that such a collection not only belongs to contemporary literature , but that it forms a remarkable and significant addi- tion to it . It has been always , at least , a part of Mr. Gladstone's ambition to take a place among the ...
... doubt that such a collection not only belongs to contemporary literature , but that it forms a remarkable and significant addi- tion to it . It has been always , at least , a part of Mr. Gladstone's ambition to take a place among the ...
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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...