American Writers of To-daySilver, Burdett, 1894 - Počet stran: 326 Includes interesting biographies of American authors like George Washington Cable, Henry James and Mark Twain, this volume features the story of The Secret Garden author€Frances Hodgson Burnett in Chapter IX. |
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Strana 64 - A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault ; A turn for punning, call it Attic salt ; To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet. Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit ; Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit ; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.
Strana 59 - Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free : For she that out of Lethe scales with man The shining steps of Nature, shares with man His nights, his days, moves with him to one goal, Stays all the fair young planet in her hands — If she be small, slight-natured, miserable, How shall men grow...
Strana 218 - Then Abner Dean of Angel's raised a point of order, when A chunk of old red sandstone took him in the abdomen ; And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
Strana 117 - Good souls, but innocent of dreamers' ways, Will come, and marvel why thou wastest time ; Others, beholding how thy turrets climb 'Twixt theirs and heaven, will hate thee all their days ; But most beware of those who come to praise. O Wondersmith, O worker in sublime And heaven-sent dreams, let art be all in all ; Build as thou wilt, unspoiled by praise or blame, Build as thou wilt, and as thy light is given : Then, if at last the airy structure fall, Dissolve, and vanish — take thyself no shame....
Strana 227 - Magdalen supplanting the blameless virgin in society, — then he will lay aside his pen and extend his hand to the new Draconian discipline in fiction. But until then he will, without claiming to be a religious man or a moralist, but simply as an artist, reverently and humbly conform to the rules laid down by a Great Poet who created the parable of the " Prodigal Son " and the " Good Samaritan, " whose works have lasted eighteen hundred years, and will remain when the present writer and his generation...
Strana 241 - Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Strana 165 - THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL There was a little girl, And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good She was very, very good, And when she was bad she was horrid.
Strana 284 - Yes, there's a luck in most things, and in none More than in being born at the right time, It boots not what the labor to be done, Or feats of arms, or arts, or building rhyme.