The Quarterly Review, المجلد 74John Murray, 1844 |
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... writing for the amusement or instruction of child- hood , is to bear in mind that it is not the extremes either of genius or dullness which we are to address - that it is of no use writing up to some minds or down to others - that we ...
... writing for the amusement or instruction of child- hood , is to bear in mind that it is not the extremes either of genius or dullness which we are to address - that it is of no use writing up to some minds or down to others - that we ...
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... writers to their service . Nevertheless there are some circumstances contingently connected with this very service ... writing and editing of children's works has been a source of ready emolu- ment - in no class of literature does the ...
... writers to their service . Nevertheless there are some circumstances contingently connected with this very service ... writing and editing of children's works has been a source of ready emolu- ment - in no class of literature does the ...
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... writers by whom their young readers are treated rather as languid , listless invalids , than as healthy , hungry ... writer , though the principle of neutrality remains the same ; and sometimes a little frothy liveliness of dialogue is ...
... writers by whom their young readers are treated rather as languid , listless invalids , than as healthy , hungry ... writer , though the principle of neutrality remains the same ; and sometimes a little frothy liveliness of dialogue is ...
الصفحة 7
... writers can describe - for us these scenes have an ineffable charm ; but we must remember that we stand in direct contrary position to their ostensible readers . We look fondly back to childhood- they , ardently forward to maturity ; we ...
... writers can describe - for us these scenes have an ineffable charm ; but we must remember that we stand in direct contrary position to their ostensible readers . We look fondly back to childhood- they , ardently forward to maturity ; we ...
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... writers facts are truth , and fable falsehood - no matter what either may be in themselves . Children are welcome therefore to know all about the petty hopes and contrivances of a modern dasher— the vanities and flirtations of a modern ...
... writers facts are truth , and fable falsehood - no matter what either may be in themselves . Children are welcome therefore to know all about the petty hopes and contrivances of a modern dasher— the vanities and flirtations of a modern ...
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الصفحة 325 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present — advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
الصفحة 205 - Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap ; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them : how much more are ye better than the fowls?
الصفحة 128 - And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
الصفحة 168 - DRESSES AND DECORATIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES, from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries. 94 Plates, beautifully Coloured, a profusion of Initial Letters, and Examples of Curious Ornament, with Historical Introduction and Descriptive Text.
الصفحة 452 - Some beauties yet no Precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles Poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach. If, where the rules not far enough extend, (Since rules were made but to promote their end) Some lucky Licence answer to the full Th' intent propos'd, that Licence is a rule.
الصفحة 477 - and there grew up in consequence a general feeling that " it was a shame to tell Arnold a lie — he always believes one.
الصفحة 505 - Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they who have not seen, and yet have believed.
الصفحة 221 - ... flos perpetuus rosarum ver agit perpetuum; candent lilia, rubescit crocus, sudat balsamum. virent prata, vernant sata, rivi mellis influunt; pigmentorum spirat odor, liquor et aromatum; pendent poma floridorum non lapsura nemorum. non alternat luna vices, sol vel cursus siderum; agnus est felicis urbis lumen inocciduum; nox et tempus desunt ei; diem fert continuum.
الصفحة 233 - It is far from my wish to promulgate to the world that the ridiculous expectations, or rather professions, of the enthusiastic...
الصفحة 495 - His mind rose above the state of things around him ; his spirit was solitary and kingly ; he was cramped by living among those as his equals, whom he felt fitted to guide as from some higher sphere ; and he retired at last to Liternum to breathe freely, to enjoy the simplicity of childhood, since he could not fulfil his natural calling to be a hero king.