Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Band 30John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1853 |
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... Father , " said a village farmer to Friar Airth , one of the ear- liest reforming preachers , " can you resolve a doubt which has risen am ong us : What ser- vant will serve a man best on least expense ? " " The good angel , " answered ...
... Father , " said a village farmer to Friar Airth , one of the ear- liest reforming preachers , " can you resolve a doubt which has risen am ong us : What ser- vant will serve a man best on least expense ? " " The good angel , " answered ...
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... father , " and she left the offending soldiers as the garrison of the town . Her falsehood was as imprudent as it was abominable . The two noblemen withdrew indignantly from the court , declar- ing formally that they would not support ...
... father , " and she left the offending soldiers as the garrison of the town . Her falsehood was as imprudent as it was abominable . The two noblemen withdrew indignantly from the court , declar- ing formally that they would not support ...
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... fathers and mothers ; but so it is that the father may be stricken with a frenzy , in which he would slay his own children . Now , madam , if the children arise , join themselves together , apprehend the father , take the sword and ...
... fathers and mothers ; but so it is that the father may be stricken with a frenzy , in which he would slay his own children . Now , madam , if the children arise , join themselves together , apprehend the father , take the sword and ...
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... father's daughter , and his affection for her made him blind . For her he quarrelled with his best friends ; he defended her mass , and was for years her truest and most faithful servant ; and she rewarded his affection with hatred ...
... father's daughter , and his affection for her made him blind . For her he quarrelled with his best friends ; he defended her mass , and was for years her truest and most faithful servant ; and she rewarded his affection with hatred ...
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... father is walking up and down the room in an agitated man- ner , the ladies are executing some fancy work of the period , and the son is turning over the leaves of a book , and wishing he was not clerk to a notary . M. de Balzac père ...
... father is walking up and down the room in an agitated man- ner , the ladies are executing some fancy work of the period , and the son is turning over the leaves of a book , and wishing he was not clerk to a notary . M. de Balzac père ...
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Seite 36 - I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen who settled first at Hull.
Seite 50 - The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.
Seite 364 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Seite 525 - But where a book is at once both good and rare — where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine, — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by his Duchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel.
Seite 310 - Has taken for a swan rogue Southey's gander. John Keats, who was kill'd off by one critique, Just as he really promised something great, If not intelligible, without Greek Contrived to talk about the gods of late Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow ! His was an untoward fate ; 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
Seite 310 - From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirror'd ; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.
Seite 151 - You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
Seite 11 - I neither fear nor eshame to say, is the most perfect school of Christ that ever was in the earth, since the days of the apostles. In other places I confess Christ to be truly preached ; but manners and religion so sincerely reformed, I have not yet seen in any other place beside...
Seite 205 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Seite 87 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice!