Littell's Living Age, Volumul 55Living Age Company Incorporated, 1857 |
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... matter which encrusts , and often buries them , would have insured him a place beside those who , by writing less and elaborating it more , by concentrating their strength on works of moderate compass and high finish , have secured ...
... matter which encrusts , and often buries them , would have insured him a place beside those who , by writing less and elaborating it more , by concentrating their strength on works of moderate compass and high finish , have secured ...
Pagina 4
... matter of fact shall suggest either some solid reflection or curious inference , some ingenious allusion or humorous story ; or , if nothing better , some sportive alliteration or ludicrous pun . To this must be added , that his re ...
... matter of fact shall suggest either some solid reflection or curious inference , some ingenious allusion or humorous story ; or , if nothing better , some sportive alliteration or ludicrous pun . To this must be added , that his re ...
Pagina 6
... matter to the purpose . Often it consisteth in one knows not what , and springeth up one can hardly tell how . Its ways are un- accountable and inexplicable ; being answer- able to the numberless rovings of fancy , and windings of ...
... matter to the purpose . Often it consisteth in one knows not what , and springeth up one can hardly tell how . Its ways are un- accountable and inexplicable ; being answer- able to the numberless rovings of fancy , and windings of ...
Pagina 14
... matter is as full of treason against the laws of history as his manner . His very method - if we may be allowed such an abuse of language - con- sists in a contempt of all method . He has so constructed his works as to secure himself ...
... matter is as full of treason against the laws of history as his manner . His very method - if we may be allowed such an abuse of language - con- sists in a contempt of all method . He has so constructed his works as to secure himself ...
Pagina 15
... matter and style of his work , than is here to be met with . If a pretty story comes in Here is a strange mixture in one short his way that affords scope for clinch and chapter ! Church history as all the world droll , off it goes with ...
... matter and style of his work , than is here to be met with . If a pretty story comes in Here is a strange mixture in one short his way that affords scope for clinch and chapter ! Church history as all the world droll , off it goes with ...
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Pagina 5 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Pagina 140 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Pagina 6 - ... from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.
Pagina 242 - I recollect that, when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noon-time, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun, as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes. If ever I should wish for a retreat, whither I might steal from the world and its distractions, and dream quietly away the remnant of a troubled...
Pagina 390 - I asked the next (Emily, afterwards Ellis Bell), what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who was sometimes a naughty boy ; she answered, ' Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.
Pagina 192 - But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover...
Pagina 3 - A PISGAH SIGHT OF PALESTINE, AND THE CONFINES THEREOF; WITH THE HISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT ACTED THEREON.
Pagina 18 - THE WRITINGS OF FULLER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN. THE writings of Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason ; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most occasions it would have been going out of his way to have expressed himself out of them.
Pagina 192 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river.
Pagina 304 - The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra ; but am I not 4 They poisoned Pope Ganganelli.