Miscellaneous Prose Works, Volumen 18Black, 1853 |
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Página 174
... resemblance to common life may be traced in them . this I rest for the most part the interest of the narrative . paucity of characters and incidents ( the absence of all that con- stitutes the interest of fictitious biography in general ) ...
... resemblance to common life may be traced in them . this I rest for the most part the interest of the narrative . paucity of characters and incidents ( the absence of all that con- stitutes the interest of fictitious biography in general ) ...
Página 202
... resemblance betwixt the character and fate of Zaira and Corinne a coincidence so near , as certainly to deprive Mr Maturin of all claim to originality , so far as this brilliant and well - painted character is concerned . In her ...
... resemblance betwixt the character and fate of Zaira and Corinne a coincidence so near , as certainly to deprive Mr Maturin of all claim to originality , so far as this brilliant and well - painted character is concerned . In her ...
Página 205
... resemblance to the face of man , I felt the hollow whisper of his welcome , I felt those unseen eyes were fix'd on mine , If eyes indeed were there- Forgotten thoughts of evil , still - born mischiefs , Foul fertile seeds of passion and ...
... resemblance to the face of man , I felt the hollow whisper of his welcome , I felt those unseen eyes were fix'd on mine , If eyes indeed were there- Forgotten thoughts of evil , still - born mischiefs , Foul fertile seeds of passion and ...
Página 225
... resemblance of the fiction to reality . At first sight , indeed , there might appear no reason why a story told in the first person should have more the air of a real history than in the third ; especially as the majority of real ...
... resemblance of the fiction to reality . At first sight , indeed , there might appear no reason why a story told in the first person should have more the air of a real history than in the third ; especially as the majority of real ...
Página 228
... resemble one another no more than Richard , and Macbeth , and Julius Cæsar ; and Miss Austen's Mrs Bennet , Mr Rushworth , and Miss Bates , are no more alike than her Darcy , Knight- ley , and Edmund Bertram . Some have complained ...
... resemble one another no more than Richard , and Macbeth , and Julius Cæsar ; and Miss Austen's Mrs Bennet , Mr Rushworth , and Miss Bates , are no more alike than her Darcy , Knight- ley , and Edmund Bertram . Some have complained ...
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acquaintance adventures Amadis Amadis de Gaul ambassador Anabaptist ancient appear beautiful become Bertram betwixt bothy Bunyan Caleb Williams called castle character chivalry circumstances composition Courcy daughter death degree described effect Elstow excited eyes fancy father favour fear feeling fiction Fleetwood Frankenstein French Galaor genius Hajji Baba hand heard heart hero Hoffmann honour human imagination incidents interest John Bunyan King knights lady Lancaster language length light Lisuarte Lobeira lover manner marvellous melancholy ment merit mind Mirza moral Musaeus narration narrative nature never novel Oriana passion perhaps Persian person Pilgrim's Progress poetry Portugal present prose racter reader recollection remarkable resemblance romance romantic fiction scene seemed singular Southey species spirit story style supernatural supposed tale talents taste terror thing thou thought tion Tizona Valencia Vasco de Lobeira Wentworth wife writing XVIII young Zaira
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Página 258 - His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
Página 78 - About this time, the state and happiness of these poor people at Bedford was thus, in a kind of Vision, presented to me. I saw as if they were set on the Sunny side of some high Mountain, there refreshing themselves with the pleasant beams of the Sun, while I was shivering and shrinking in the Cold, afflicted with Frost, Snow, and dark Clouds.
Página 258 - I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation ; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
Página 275 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Página 171 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears : The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Página 79 - But forasmuch as the passage was wonderful narrow, even so narrow that I could not but with great difficulty enter in thereat, it showed me that none could enter into life but those that were in downright earnest, and unless also they left that wicked world behind them ; for here was only room for body and soul, but not for body and soul and sin.
Página 276 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Página 116 - He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low, no pride. He that is humble, ever shall Have God to be his guide. I am content with what I have, Little be it or much ; And, Lord, contentment still I crave, Because thou savest such. Fulness to such a burden is, That go on pilgrimage ; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.
Página 277 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction and subjects of fancy ; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian...
Página 155 - Next in three books spoil'd human nature : Undid Creation at a jerk, And of Redemption made damn'd work. Then took his Muse at once, and dipt her Full in the middle of the Scripture. What wonders there the man, grown old, did ? Sternhold himself he out Sternholded. Made David seem so mad and freakish, All thought him just what thought King Achish. No mortal read his Solomon But judg'd Re'boam his own son. Moses...