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... FICTION : DE FOE 222 W. M. THACKERAY , ARTIST AND MORALIST 264 THE MISS BRONTĖS 309 SIR E. B. LYTTON , NOVELIST , PHILOSOPHER , AND POET 354 WOMAN · 393 GHOSTS OF THE Old and NEW SCHOOL 433 FICTIONS FOR CHILDREN CHILDREN'S FAIRY - TALES ...
... FICTION : DE FOE 222 W. M. THACKERAY , ARTIST AND MORALIST 264 THE MISS BRONTĖS 309 SIR E. B. LYTTON , NOVELIST , PHILOSOPHER , AND POET 354 WOMAN · 393 GHOSTS OF THE Old and NEW SCHOOL 433 FICTIONS FOR CHILDREN CHILDREN'S FAIRY - TALES ...
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... FICTION : DE FOE 222 W. M. THACKERAY , ARTIST AND MORALIST 264 THE MISS BRONTĖS 309 SIR E. B. LYTTON , NOVELIST , PHILosopher , and Poet 354 WOMAN 393 • GHOSTS OF THE OLD AND NEW SCHOOL FICTIONS FOR CHILDREN 433 • 481 • CHILDREN'S FAIRY ...
... FICTION : DE FOE 222 W. M. THACKERAY , ARTIST AND MORALIST 264 THE MISS BRONTĖS 309 SIR E. B. LYTTON , NOVELIST , PHILosopher , and Poet 354 WOMAN 393 • GHOSTS OF THE OLD AND NEW SCHOOL FICTIONS FOR CHILDREN 433 • 481 • CHILDREN'S FAIRY ...
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... FICTION : DE FOE 181 • 222 W. M. THACKERAY , ARTIST AND MORALIST 264 THE MISS BRONTĖS 309 SIR E. B. LYTTON , NOVELIST , PHILOSOpher , and Poet 354 WOMAN • 393 GHOSTS OF THE Old and NEW SCHOOL FICTIONS FOR CHILDREN CHILDREN'S FAIRY ...
... FICTION : DE FOE 181 • 222 W. M. THACKERAY , ARTIST AND MORALIST 264 THE MISS BRONTĖS 309 SIR E. B. LYTTON , NOVELIST , PHILOSOpher , and Poet 354 WOMAN • 393 GHOSTS OF THE Old and NEW SCHOOL FICTIONS FOR CHILDREN CHILDREN'S FAIRY ...
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... fiction dawns , and shines , and sets like a whole day of mingled weather , whether it be April , or August , or De- cember . In the minuter detail and greater length of the novel , we require the repose we derive from our confidence in ...
... fiction dawns , and shines , and sets like a whole day of mingled weather , whether it be April , or August , or De- cember . In the minuter detail and greater length of the novel , we require the repose we derive from our confidence in ...
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... fiction . It occurred to him that the East was a new field , and that Eastern poetry would tell in the market . Does he , then , search Eastern history for a fitting theme ? No , he falls to reading most indus- triously ; but it is not ...
... fiction . It occurred to him that the East was a new field , and that Eastern poetry would tell in the market . Does he , then , search Eastern history for a fitting theme ? No , he falls to reading most indus- triously ; but it is not ...
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Page 7 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story : The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 459 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 7 - COURAGE !" he said, and pointed toward the land, " This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land, In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.
Page 372 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 7 - The dawn, the dawn,' and died away; And East and West, without a breath, Mixt their dim lights, like life and death, To broaden into boundless day.
Page 7 - Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears, And would have spoken, but he found not words; Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee, O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands, And rising bore him thro