Heroines of Fiction, المجلد 0Harper and Brothers, 1901 - 410 من الصفحات |
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... perhaps , how won- derfully he was prophesying , in " The Vicar of Wake- field , " the best modern fiction of England and America . He does not portray the incidents or characters which Richardson studies with a pious abhorrence , or ...
... perhaps , how won- derfully he was prophesying , in " The Vicar of Wake- field , " the best modern fiction of England and America . He does not portray the incidents or characters which Richardson studies with a pious abhorrence , or ...
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... perhaps not grown much less licentious when Fanny Burney and Maria Edge- worth and Jane Austen began to write , but it was grow- ing less openly licentious , and it might be studied in pictures less alarming to propriety , if not to ...
... perhaps not grown much less licentious when Fanny Burney and Maria Edge- worth and Jane Austen began to write , but it was grow- ing less openly licentious , and it might be studied in pictures less alarming to propriety , if not to ...
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... perhaps going out in society , but it would not be safe to say it had gone out . Probably in the last decades of the century , an heiress would not , even in Ireland , be attacked by her cousin in her uncle's presence , and carried off ...
... perhaps going out in society , but it would not be safe to say it had gone out . Probably in the last decades of the century , an heiress would not , even in Ireland , be attacked by her cousin in her uncle's presence , and carried off ...
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... perhaps the sweetest and dearest goose in all fiction . We laugh at her ( we must not forget that it is she herself who lets us laugh at her ) , but we love her , and we rejoice in the happiness which she finds . so supernally ...
... perhaps the sweetest and dearest goose in all fiction . We laugh at her ( we must not forget that it is she herself who lets us laugh at her ) , but we love her , and we rejoice in the happiness which she finds . so supernally ...
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... perhaps not so justi- fiably dear to the fancy ; but she outlives most of the serious personages in the reader's remembrance . In the handling of all , a sense of the author's maturing art grows upon the critic ; and in fact the ...
... perhaps not so justi- fiably dear to the fancy ; but she outlives most of the serious personages in the reader's remembrance . In the handling of all , a sense of the author's maturing art grows upon the critic ; and in fact the ...
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الصفحة 172 - We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!
الصفحة 168 - The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam...
الصفحة 165 - Heaven hath granted thee an open ignominy, that thereby thou mayest work out an open triumph over the evil within thee, and the sorrow without. Take heed how thou deniest to him — who, perchance, hath not the courage to grasp it for himself — the bitter, but wholesome, cup that is now presented to thy lips!
الصفحة 180 - This long while past, you have been following up your game, groping for human emotions in the dark corners of the heart. Had you been here a little sooner, you might have seen them dragged into the daylight. I could even wish to have my trial over again, with you standing by to see fair play!
الصفحة 56 - Anne wondered whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and advantage of firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him that, like all other qualities of the mind, it should have its proportions and limits.
الصفحة 44 - This is not to be borne. Miss Bennet, I insist on being satisfied. Has he, has my nephew, made you an offer of marriage?" "Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible." "It ought to be so; it must be so, while he retains the use of his reason. But your arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family. You may have drawn him in." "If I have, I shall be the last person to confess it.
الصفحة 52 - There was nothing less for Lady Russell to do than to admit that she had been pretty completely wrong, and to take up a new set of opinions and of hopes.
الصفحة 94 - They have — they have!" exclaimed Rebecca; and they press the besieged hard upon the outer wall; some plant ladders, some swarm like bees, and endeavor to ascend upon the shoulders of each other; down go stones, beams, and trunks of trees upon their heads, and as fast as they bear the wounded to the rear, fresh men supply their places in the assault. Great God! hast Thou given men Thine own image that it should be thus cruelly defaced by the hands of their brethren!" "Think not of that," said Ivanhoe;...
الصفحة 165 - Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him; for believe me, Hester, though, he were to step down from a high place and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life.