The Living Age, Volume 269Living Age Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... write about the poor , but they are not really of them . With the advent of Dickens the new school of modern fiction ... writer . No one could ever say that Dickens had a coarse mind . Even when describing the foulest and most loathsome ...
... write about the poor , but they are not really of them . With the advent of Dickens the new school of modern fiction ... writer . No one could ever say that Dickens had a coarse mind . Even when describing the foulest and most loathsome ...
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... writer of a younger generation would probably have han- dled the episode of Lord Steyne in an offensive , if not unreadable way , Thackeray contrives to tell the story without appealing to our coarser im- pulses . There is a dignity and ...
... writer of a younger generation would probably have han- dled the episode of Lord Steyne in an offensive , if not unreadable way , Thackeray contrives to tell the story without appealing to our coarser im- pulses . There is a dignity and ...
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... writer's hands , or mouthpieces for ser- mons or political and economic views in another ; they may , under a thin ... write , a clever readable novel - Thompson's Prog- ress , by Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne , the history of a self - made man ...
... writer's hands , or mouthpieces for ser- mons or political and economic views in another ; they may , under a thin ... write , a clever readable novel - Thompson's Prog- ress , by Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne , the history of a self - made man ...
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... writer for an hour or more and discuss chemical and electrical problems with an ease and close attention that seemed to negative all other occupation . By Na- ture he seemed destined to be a scien- tific expert and mechanic . Had polit ...
... writer for an hour or more and discuss chemical and electrical problems with an ease and close attention that seemed to negative all other occupation . By Na- ture he seemed destined to be a scien- tific expert and mechanic . Had polit ...
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... writer remembers being present at a service in the chapel of one of our largest convict prisons . " What did you think of it ? " asked the Governor after- wards . " The best - behaved congrega- tion and the most devout service I ever ...
... writer remembers being present at a service in the chapel of one of our largest convict prisons . " What did you think of it ? " asked the Governor after- wards . " The best - behaved congrega- tion and the most devout service I ever ...
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Page 655 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 88 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Page 80 - And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 724 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 306 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 276 - said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor. And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller's head: And he smote upon the door again a second time;
Page 655 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 80 - For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
Page 610 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Page 188 - Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.