Lights on the Way: Some Tales Within a TaleChato and Windus, 1878 - 313 páginas |
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... colour a painter would have loved , grouped themselves with the oddest irregularity round about it ; indeed , very much like cattle in a field at night . The nearness of our house to the chapel had led the more intimate friends of the ...
... colour a painter would have loved , grouped themselves with the oddest irregularity round about it ; indeed , very much like cattle in a field at night . The nearness of our house to the chapel had led the more intimate friends of the ...
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... colour ; but in my innocence I thought it a fine Sunday face . Parlane and my father being ruling elders , the former used to arrive rather earlier than the rest ; and thus it came about that the boy was my companion in this hebdomadal ...
... colour ; but in my innocence I thought it a fine Sunday face . Parlane and my father being ruling elders , the former used to arrive rather earlier than the rest ; and thus it came about that the boy was my companion in this hebdomadal ...
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... colour- ing , he usually takes care to tone this down by subdued lights in the background of his picture . Unluckily even this much cannot be said of his prose - especially of the Decamerone , his most read work , which ...
... colour- ing , he usually takes care to tone this down by subdued lights in the background of his picture . Unluckily even this much cannot be said of his prose - especially of the Decamerone , his most read work , which ...
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... coloured activities of modern life . Hebrew poetry is not in the conventional sense pictu- resque , that is , it does not professedly seek its delight in the mere contemplation of a series of natural objects arranged under a special ...
... coloured activities of modern life . Hebrew poetry is not in the conventional sense pictu- resque , that is , it does not professedly seek its delight in the mere contemplation of a series of natural objects arranged under a special ...
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... colour ; and round the frames of the high , stiff , straight , ribbed - backed oak chairs were carvings of dark luscious grapes and vine- leaves , wrought in fantastic and almost impossible combi- nations . The chimney - piece matched ...
... colour ; and round the frames of the high , stiff , straight , ribbed - backed oak chairs were carvings of dark luscious grapes and vine- leaves , wrought in fantastic and almost impossible combi- nations . The chimney - piece matched ...
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admirers ALFRED CONCANEN artistic aunt Barford beautiful Boccaccio Calvinistic Carlyle Carlyle's Carry Carry's character Charlotte Brontë Chaucer Christian clear cloth extra colour confess critical Crown 8vo Dante dramatic Edited element English eyes face fact false fancy father Fcap feeling Felix Holt felt George Eliot gilt Gilworth girl Goethe ground hand healthy heart hope human humour idea individual intellect Jacob John JOHN SAUNders JUSTIN MCCARTHY Kitty Lady Betty looked matter mind Mistress moral mother mystical nature Nelly never night noticed novels once OUIDA Parlane peculiar Peg's perhaps Petrarch poems poet poetical poetry poor Portrait remark Sainte-Beuve seemed seen sense sentiment Shakespeare smile sometimes sort speak spirit story strange sweet sympathy Tennyson Thackeray thing thought tion true truth Vols walk weakness wholly WILKIE COLLINS WINDUS Winwood woman words write Wybrooke young
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