Shelburne Essays, Svazek 2G. P. Putnam's sons, 1905 - Počet stran: 265 |
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Strana 161 - All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!" Passion to Shakespeare was the source of tragedy; there is no tragedy, properly speaking, in Browning, for the reason that passion is to him voL.
Strana 179 - One solitary plate, one knife, one fork, one glass!—I gave a thousand pensive, penetrating looks at the chair thou hadst so often graced, in those quiet and sentimental repasts—then laid down my knife and fork, and took out my handkerchief, and clapped it across my face, and wept like a child"—he wrote to Miss
Strana 225 - should these secular advantages cease, on what must Christ's ministers depend ? A layman might reply simply, On the truth, and Shorthouse, as we shall see, had such an answer to make, though couched in more circuitous language. But not so the Tract: I fear we have neglected the real ground on which our authority is built—OUR
Strana 146 - his common-sense admirers are probably held by something more recondite than this occasional charm. You see one lad o'erstride a chimney-stack; Him you must watch—he's sure to fall, yet stands! Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things— says Bishop Blougram, and the attraction of Browning to many is just
Strana 42 - rhyme, For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: " It might have been !
Strana 4 - the first on which I open my eyes in the morning. She died when I completed my sixth year ; yet I remember her well, and am an ocular witness of the
Strana 92 - Fashna your thumb about that, Annie Winnie," answered the sibyl. " I hae it frae a hand sure eneugh." " But ye said ye never saw the foul thief," reiterated her inquisitive companion. " I hae it frae as sure a hand," said Ailsie, " and frae them that spaed his fortune before the sark gaed ower his head.
Strana 199 - mother's, which had been twice scoured, was the first idea which Obadiah's exclamation brought into Susannah's head. . . . —O! 'twill be the death of my poor mistress, cried Susannah.—My mother's whole wardrobe followed.— What a procession ! her red damask,—her orange tawney, —her white and yellow lutestrings,—her brown
Strana 20 - It is not strange that the society from which Cowper fled should have seemed to him whimsical and a little mad. "A line of Bourne's," he says, " is very expressive of the spectacle which this world exhibits, tragi-comical as the incidents of it are, absurd in themselves, but terrible in their consequences: Sunt res
Strana 136 - the unfit Contrarious moods of men recoil away And isolate pure spirits, and permit A place to stand and love in for a day, With darkness and the death-hour rounding it.