At the Sign of the Hobby HorseHoughton Mifflin, 1910 - 252 من الصفحات |
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... , dealt with in this way , to find even the modern novel interesting . That the general impulse visible in this form of literary expression is toward the breaking down of the old accepted [ 2 ] AT THE SIGN OF THE HOBBY - HORSE.
... , dealt with in this way , to find even the modern novel interesting . That the general impulse visible in this form of literary expression is toward the breaking down of the old accepted [ 2 ] AT THE SIGN OF THE HOBBY - HORSE.
الصفحة 3
Elizabeth Bisland. expression is toward the breaking down of the old accepted laws of behaviour is a clamant fact . Why this should be so it might be amusing , if not in- structive , to discover . Fundamental morals , of course , alter ...
Elizabeth Bisland. expression is toward the breaking down of the old accepted laws of behaviour is a clamant fact . Why this should be so it might be amusing , if not in- structive , to discover . Fundamental morals , of course , alter ...
الصفحة 9
... accept him before he can draw breath to go on . Here was the goddess again ; in respectable , gen- teel , eighteenth - century guise this time ; and to counterbalance her , Fielding revived that naughty , pleasing contrast after which ...
... accept him before he can draw breath to go on . Here was the goddess again ; in respectable , gen- teel , eighteenth - century guise this time ; and to counterbalance her , Fielding revived that naughty , pleasing contrast after which ...
الصفحة 11
... accept as the wooden figure - head of his romances . ― Dickens swung between a plump , rosy , cosy , silly little dear the sort of person who is a Dolly Var- den at sixteen , becoming inevitably , by the lapse of two - score years ...
... accept as the wooden figure - head of his romances . ― Dickens swung between a plump , rosy , cosy , silly little dear the sort of person who is a Dolly Var- den at sixteen , becoming inevitably , by the lapse of two - score years ...
الصفحة 20
... accept her account of the meeting . And no one seemed to feel that his wrongs lay in the fact that she had been trying to save him through his own dishon- our . That she had not dishonoured him was merely an accident , and not through ...
... accept her account of the meeting . And no one seemed to feel that his wrongs lay in the fact that she had been trying to save him through his own dishon- our . That she had not dishonoured him was merely an accident , and not through ...
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الصفحة 72 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
الصفحة 130 - The melancholy waters lie. No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town...
الصفحة 124 - Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes ; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
الصفحة 129 - My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep!
الصفحة 225 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. Tt may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
الصفحة 21 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, ' To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
الصفحة 230 - A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!
الصفحة 229 - Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind...
الصفحة 122 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
الصفحة 87 - Here you come with your old music, and here's all the good it brings. What, they lived once thus at Venice where the merchants were the kings, Where St. Mark's is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings?