Romantic Professions: And Other PapersE. Mathews & J. Lane, 1894 - 225 страници |
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... If there is no fairy prince at hand , an ordinary prince will do . The English duke is , as the American moralist rightly enough divined , only a modern variety of fairy prince . To be mistaken for a 9 ROMANTIC PROFESSIONS.
... If there is no fairy prince at hand , an ordinary prince will do . The English duke is , as the American moralist rightly enough divined , only a modern variety of fairy prince . To be mistaken for a 9 ROMANTIC PROFESSIONS.
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... modern novelist would surmount the pro- fessional high hat with the aureole of romance , he tricks out his tame hero to mimic the traditional advantages of prince or champion . Of the warrior as hero , what need of argument ? His praise ...
... modern novelist would surmount the pro- fessional high hat with the aureole of romance , he tricks out his tame hero to mimic the traditional advantages of prince or champion . Of the warrior as hero , what need of argument ? His praise ...
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... modern fiction dates at least as far back as the ' Roman Comique . ' Scarron's Destin is the acknowledged first parent of Gautier's Capi- taine Fracasse , and the family includes vari- ous specimens from the harmless Nicholas Nickleby ...
... modern fiction dates at least as far back as the ' Roman Comique . ' Scarron's Destin is the acknowledged first parent of Gautier's Capi- taine Fracasse , and the family includes vari- ous specimens from the harmless Nicholas Nickleby ...
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... modern life has been a difficulty with artists and poets , and various ways have been tried of getting over it . They reduce themselves chiefly to Tennyson's way and Walt Whitman's . Tennyson's was essen- tially the device of poetic ...
... modern life has been a difficulty with artists and poets , and various ways have been tried of getting over it . They reduce themselves chiefly to Tennyson's way and Walt Whitman's . Tennyson's was essen- tially the device of poetic ...
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... modern novelist grasped the full seriousness of his high call- ing , when instead of a story he felt com- pelled to offer a ' criticism of life , ' when he disdained to amuse and aspired to become our spiritual Baedeker , when he took ...
... modern novelist grasped the full seriousness of his high call- ing , when instead of a story he felt com- pelled to offer a ' criticism of life , ' when he disdained to amuse and aspired to become our spiritual Baedeker , when he took ...
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Страница 192 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England; This nurse, this teeming womb of royal...
Страница 192 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge ; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Страница 154 - Vanitatum ! which of us is happy in this world ? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied ? — come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
Страница 135 - The war, that for a space did fail, Now trebly thundering swelled the gale, And ' Stanley ! ' was the cry. A light on Marmion's visage spread, And fired his glazing eye ; With dying hand above his head He shook the fragment of his blade, And shouted ' Victory ! — Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on!
Страница 116 - Or say there's beauty with no soul at all (I never saw it - put the case the same - ) If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents, That's somewhat.
Страница 16 - Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea." BOSWELL. "Lord Mansfield does not." JOHNSON. "Sir, if Lord Mansfield were in a company of General Officers and Admirals who have been in service, he would shrink ; he'd wish to creep under the table.
Страница 219 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labor and intent study, which I take to be my portion in this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Страница 216 - The affectionate Laidlaw beseeching him to stop dictating, when his audible suffering filled every pause. ' Nay, Willie,' he answered, ' only see that the doors are fast. I would fain keep all the cry as well as all the wool to ourselves ; but as to giving over work, that can only be when I am in woollen.