Appletons' Journal, Volume 8D. Appleton and Company, 1880 - American literature |
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... kind as to gather for me have only doubled my anxiety . Madame Corneuil is an intriguer . Why must Horace be caught in her toils ? Since I lost my husband , you have been my only counselor and my first resort . Never did I need your ...
... kind as to gather for me have only doubled my anxiety . Madame Corneuil is an intriguer . Why must Horace be caught in her toils ? Since I lost my husband , you have been my only counselor and my first resort . Never did I need your ...
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... kind of shoe ; if he wear any other kind , his feet are cut . " It is true that his authority is a little weakened by his subsequent statement that these isles have trees which bear " fruits like women . " These strange beings have ...
... kind of shoe ; if he wear any other kind , his feet are cut . " It is true that his authority is a little weakened by his subsequent statement that these isles have trees which bear " fruits like women . " These strange beings have ...
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... kind , and places one in each of the corners of her room . When her suitor repeatedly calls upon her to come forth , she replies that she is coming directly , but each time she speaks the dolls begin to cry " Kuku , " and as they cry ...
... kind , and places one in each of the corners of her room . When her suitor repeatedly calls upon her to come forth , she replies that she is coming directly , but each time she speaks the dolls begin to cry " Kuku , " and as they cry ...
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... kind of con- traction of the risible muscles acquired the name of the " Sardonic grin . " On so clear a point it is unnecessary to dwell longer . But it will be as well to point out that there is sometimes risk in attributing legends ...
... kind of con- traction of the risible muscles acquired the name of the " Sardonic grin . " On so clear a point it is unnecessary to dwell longer . But it will be as well to point out that there is sometimes risk in attributing legends ...
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... kind . It occurs in the case of the legend of Trajan , an excellent account of which has been lately given by M. Gaston Paris . * Tradition asserts that there once existed at Rome a bas - relief representing Trajan on horse- back in all ...
... kind . It occurs in the case of the legend of Trajan , an excellent account of which has been lately given by M. Gaston Paris . * Tradition asserts that there once existed at Rome a bas - relief representing Trajan on horse- back in all ...
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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...