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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... mind , " is the best proof that his poetical powers were still growing . Though each is perfect in its way , there is an immense distance between his earlier and his later work , the famous colour picture in The Eve of St Agnes , for ...
... mind , " is the best proof that his poetical powers were still growing . Though each is perfect in its way , there is an immense distance between his earlier and his later work , the famous colour picture in The Eve of St Agnes , for ...
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... mind . One cannot help contrasting the modesty of the author of Vanity Fair with the " gude conceit o ' themselves " which the New Generation cultivate so successfully . There is no tribute , however florid , which our Homeric Smith ...
... mind . One cannot help contrasting the modesty of the author of Vanity Fair with the " gude conceit o ' themselves " which the New Generation cultivate so successfully . There is no tribute , however florid , which our Homeric Smith ...
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... the simplicity , the sincerity of these lines are , to my mind , wonderful . The art is perfect ( if it be art , it is the art which nature makes ) ; the cadence dwells upon the ear . I know not where , 36 MAINLY ABOUT THACKERAY .
... the simplicity , the sincerity of these lines are , to my mind , wonderful . The art is perfect ( if it be art , it is the art which nature makes ) ; the cadence dwells upon the ear . I know not where , 36 MAINLY ABOUT THACKERAY .
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... mind as to the notice of our dear friend Tulloch for the Encyclopædia . At first I had thought of attempting it myself , but I have virtually relinquished this ; and you naturally occur to me as one of his most intimate lifelong friends ...
... mind as to the notice of our dear friend Tulloch for the Encyclopædia . At first I had thought of attempting it myself , but I have virtually relinquished this ; and you naturally occur to me as one of his most intimate lifelong friends ...
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... minds as it braces their bodies , stimulating their industry and sharpening their wits . Such people , indeed , are good for nothing in the way of intellectual work after the middle of March . With the first balmy breath of spring they ...
... minds as it braces their bodies , stimulating their industry and sharpening their wits . Such people , indeed , are good for nothing in the way of intellectual work after the middle of March . With the first balmy breath of spring they ...
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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.
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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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