English Literature: From the age of Johnson to the age of Tennyson, by Edmund GosseMacmillan, 1905 |
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... Lady of Bitterness , " as some one styled her . A still more prominent figure in the social and literary life of the age was Richard Monckton Milnes , first Lord Hough- ton ( 1809-1885 ) , the early associate of Tennyson , Thackeray ...
... Lady of Bitterness , " as some one styled her . A still more prominent figure in the social and literary life of the age was Richard Monckton Milnes , first Lord Hough- ton ( 1809-1885 ) , the early associate of Tennyson , Thackeray ...
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... both containing such minor articles of theatrical costume as the lady performers usually carried to and fro every evening . Nicholas. FROM " NICHOLAS NICKLEBY . " From a Drawing by D. Maclise. 240 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... both containing such minor articles of theatrical costume as the lady performers usually carried to and fro every evening . Nicholas. FROM " NICHOLAS NICKLEBY . " From a Drawing by D. Maclise. 240 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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... ladies vowed that they wouldn't move a step further until Nicholas had promised that he wouldn't offer to peep again . At last Nicholas pledged himself to betray OCTOBER- 1 Devonshire Terrace , where a number of Dickens's Masterpieces ...
... ladies vowed that they wouldn't move a step further until Nicholas had promised that he wouldn't offer to peep again . At last Nicholas pledged himself to betray OCTOBER- 1 Devonshire Terrace , where a number of Dickens's Masterpieces ...
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... lady in short petticoats - and always did it too with such an air that people in the pit had been several times known to cry out , " Bravo ! " under the impression that he was somebody . Such was Miss Snevellicci's papa , upon whom some ...
... lady in short petticoats - and always did it too with such an air that people in the pit had been several times known to cry out , " Bravo ! " under the impression that he was somebody . Such was Miss Snevellicci's papa , upon whom some ...
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... not even name the fashionable ladies who undertook at this time , in large numbers , to reproduce the foibles and frivolities of “ society . ” Charles James Lever ( 1806-1872 ) was born , the 244 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
... not even name the fashionable ladies who undertook at this time , in large numbers , to reproduce the foibles and frivolities of “ society . ” Charles James Lever ( 1806-1872 ) was born , the 244 HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
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Strana 362 - Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me : Here he lies where he longed to be ; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
Strana 242 - My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well ; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely ; that, in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
Strana 312 - OTHERS abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty, Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the...
Strana 344 - Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose ! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows...
Strana 262 - Windham. Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest manager pass unnoticed. At an age when most of those who distinguish themselves in life are still contending for prizes and fellowships at college, he had won for himself a conspicuous place in parliament. No advantage of fortune or connection was wanting that could set off to the height his splendid talents and his unblemished honour.
Strana 344 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Strana 311 - By Jemshid in Persepolis, to bear His house, now 'mid their broken flights of steps Lie prone, enormous, down the mountain side — So in the sand lay Rustum by his son. And night came down over the solemn waste, And the two gazing hosts, and that sole pair, And darken'd all; and a cold fog, with night, Crept from the Oxus.
Strana 312 - Brimming and bright and large : then sands begin To hem his watery march, and dam his streams, And split his currents ; that for many a league The shorn and...
Strana 262 - But neither the culprit nor his advocates attracted so much notice as the accusers. In the midst of the blaze of red drapery, a space had been fitted up •with green benches, and tables for the Commons.
Strana 319 - ... back to him as mysteriously as it had been taken away! He felt his heart begin to beat violently, and for a few moments he was unable to stretch out his hand and grasp the restored treasure. The heap of gold seemed to glow and get larger beneath his agitated gaze. He leaned forward at last, and stretched forth his hand; but instead of the hard coin with the familiar resisting outline, his fingers encountered soft warm curls.