Biographical and Critical MiscellaniesPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 729 páginas |
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... ripened into a passion in later years . Another anecdote , recorded of him at the age of ten , sets in a still stronger light his appreciation of intellectual pursuits far above his years . A visiter at CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN . 3.
... ripened into a passion in later years . Another anecdote , recorded of him at the age of ten , sets in a still stronger light his appreciation of intellectual pursuits far above his years . A visiter at CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN . 3.
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... light ; I led the way to the chamber ; she looked round her ; she lifted the cur- tain of the bed ; she saw nothing . At length she fixed inquiring eyes upon me . The light now en- abled her to discover in my visage what darkness had ...
... light ; I led the way to the chamber ; she looked round her ; she lifted the cur- tain of the bed ; she saw nothing . At length she fixed inquiring eyes upon me . The light now en- abled her to discover in my visage what darkness had ...
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... lights of education are flung too bright and broad over the land to allow any lurking - hole for the shadows of a twilight age . So much the worse for the poet and the novelist . Their province must now be confined to poor hu- man ...
... lights of education are flung too bright and broad over the land to allow any lurking - hole for the shadows of a twilight age . So much the worse for the poet and the novelist . Their province must now be confined to poor hu- man ...
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... light and airy fictions of Boccaccio ; and it has fur- nished a subject for the graphic pencil of the Eng- lish novelist De Foe , the only one of the three who never witnessed the horrors which he paints , but whose fictions wear an ...
... light and airy fictions of Boccaccio ; and it has fur- nished a subject for the graphic pencil of the Eng- lish novelist De Foe , the only one of the three who never witnessed the horrors which he paints , but whose fictions wear an ...
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... light in which the character of the North American Indian has been exhibited by the two writers has little resemblance . Brown's sketches , it is true , are few and faint . As far as they go , however , they are confined to such views ...
... light in which the character of the North American Indian has been exhibited by the two writers has little resemblance . Brown's sketches , it is true , are few and faint . As far as they go , however , they are confined to such views ...
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Página 270 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Página 61 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note.
Página 278 - Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author.
Página 198 - At length he said, with perfect cheerfulness, ' Well, well, James, so be it — but you know we must not droop, for we can't afford to give over. Since one line has failed, we must just stick to something else:' — and so he dismissed me, and resumed his novel.
Página 240 - People may say this and that of the pleasure of fame, or of profit, as a motive of writing ; I think the only pleasure is in the actual exertion and research, and I would no more write upon any other terms than I would hunt merely to dine upon hare-soup. At the same time, if credit and profit came unlocked for I would no more quarrel with them than with the soup.
Página 428 - Know that this theory is false; his bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. Man was in ancient days of grosser mould, And Hercules might blush to learn how far Beyond the limits he had vainly set, The dullest sea-boat soon shall wing her way. Man shall descry another hemisphere. Since to one common centre all things tend, So earth, by curious mystery divine Well balanced, hangs amid the starry spheres.
Página 17 - This was too much. I broke from her embrace, and retired to a corner of the room. In this pause, courage was once more infused into me. I resolved to execute my duty. She followed me, and renewed her passionate entreaty to know the cause of my distress.
Página 324 - The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 201 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Página 190 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.