The Table-talk of Shirley [pseud.]: Reminiscences of and Letters from Froude, Thackeray, Disraeli, Browning, Rossetti, Kingsley, Baynes, Huxley, Tyndall and OthersW. Blackwood, 1895 - 344 páginas |
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... poem or romance - nay , even the prospectus of a limited company - has something of the same attractive uncertainty . Will the promised harvest be reaped , or will it end in insolvency and liquidation ? I have a note of the prologues ...
... poem or romance - nay , even the prospectus of a limited company - has something of the same attractive uncertainty . Will the promised harvest be reaped , or will it end in insolvency and liquidation ? I have a note of the prologues ...
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... poems which , though utterly destitute it may be of the true lyrical movement , yet represent in a not ignoble fashion , but on the contrary with the brilliant distinction of a brilliant and potent pen , the great movements of a great ...
... poems which , though utterly destitute it may be of the true lyrical movement , yet represent in a not ignoble fashion , but on the contrary with the brilliant distinction of a brilliant and potent pen , the great movements of a great ...
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... poems in the language— faultless as a shell or a crystal - does not seem to strike her as very wonderful . It is hardly too much to say that not one immature line came from his pen ; that his lyrical perfection of style and form has ...
... poems in the language— faultless as a shell or a crystal - does not seem to strike her as very wonderful . It is hardly too much to say that not one immature line came from his pen ; that his lyrical perfection of style and form has ...
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... poems in MS . He wanted us to publish them . I confess I could make nothing of them . Nor could a very able man who looked at the MS . for me . Surely 19-20ths of them are of the most obscure , watery , mystical , affected stuff ...
... poems in MS . He wanted us to publish them . I confess I could make nothing of them . Nor could a very able man who looked at the MS . for me . Surely 19-20ths of them are of the most obscure , watery , mystical , affected stuff ...
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... poems which described a picture of Rossetti was a very fine poem ; that the pic- ture was not understandable , and the poem made it no clearer , but that it was a fine poem nevertheless . ' For myself , I am sick of Rossetti and his ...
... poems which described a picture of Rossetti was a very fine poem ; that the pic- ture was not understandable , and the poem made it no clearer , but that it was a fine poem nevertheless . ' For myself , I am sick of Rossetti and his ...
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Página 272 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
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Página 265 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Página 35 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Página 4 - Edition. 8vo, 7s. 6d. The Principles of Singing. A Practical Guide for Vocalists and Teachers. With Course of Vocal Exercises. Crown 8vo, 6s.
Página 11 - ELIOT. George Eliot's Life, Related in her Letters and Journals. Arranged and Edited by her husband, JW CROSS.
Página 101 - Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights: Wait ye the warning? Our low life was the level's and the night's; He's for the morning.
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