The North American Review, Volume 70Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1850 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... speak more correctly , the want of civilization , had left the different elements of the language contending as it were for the mastery . The result was still uncertain at the close of the thirteenth century . Alfonso himself did ...
... speak more correctly , the want of civilization , had left the different elements of the language contending as it were for the mastery . The result was still uncertain at the close of the thirteenth century . Alfonso himself did ...
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... speaking of an old chronicle he has been criticizing , - " we should not forget , that the whole series , extending over full two hundred and fifty years , from the time of Alfonso the Wise to the accession of Charles the Fifth , and ...
... speaking of an old chronicle he has been criticizing , - " we should not forget , that the whole series , extending over full two hundred and fifty years , from the time of Alfonso the Wise to the accession of Charles the Fifth , and ...
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... speak ? Its merits as a work of imagination , and , con- sidering the age , its literary execution , are of a high order . An English version of the book appeared early in the present century , from the pen of Southey , to whom English ...
... speak ? Its merits as a work of imagination , and , con- sidering the age , its literary execution , are of a high order . An English version of the book appeared early in the present century , from the pen of Southey , to whom English ...
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... speaking of the Amadises , Lisuartes , and Cla- rions , ' that their authors do waste their time and weary their faculties in writing such books , which are read by all and be- lieved by many . For , ' he goes on , ' there be men who ...
... speaking of the Amadises , Lisuartes , and Cla- rions , ' that their authors do waste their time and weary their faculties in writing such books , which are read by all and be- lieved by many . For , ' he goes on , ' there be men who ...
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... speak no less plainly . Indeed , the passion for such fictions was so strong , and seemed so dan- gerous , that in 1553 they were prohibited from being printed , sold , or read in the American colonies ; and in 1555 the Cortes earnestly ...
... speak no less plainly . Indeed , the passion for such fictions was so strong , and seemed so dan- gerous , that in 1553 they were prohibited from being printed , sold , or read in the American colonies ; and in 1555 the Cortes earnestly ...
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Page 285 - In all my wanderings round this world of care, In all my griefs - and God has given my share I still had hopes my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 284 - Tis a note of enchantment; what ails her? she sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Page 285 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose: I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw...
Page 285 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last.
Page 278 - I had rather be an under-turnkey in Newgate. I was up early and late ; I was browbeat by the master, hated for my ugly face by the mistress, worried by the boys...
Page 354 - ... more an assemblage of abandoned and shameless creatures, half naked and half drunk, rather demanding than requesting charity. The prison no more resounded with obscenity, and imprecations, and licentious songs ; and, to use the coarse but the just expression of one who knew the prison well, ' This hell upon earth,' exhibited the appearance of an industrious manufactory, or a well-regulated family.
Page 263 - Exercises in Greek Prose Composition. Adapted to the First Book of Xenophon's Anabasis. By JAMES R. BOISE, Prof, of Greek in University of Michigan.
Page 263 - THE ELEMENTS OF MORAL SCIENCE. By FRANCIS WAYLAND, DD, President of Brown University, and Professor of Moral Philosophy.
Page 14 - So he turned his sharpened ear, and caught the wailing tone, Where Jusuf, by his mother's grave, lay making heavy moan. And the negro hurried up, and gave him there a blow ; So quick and cruel was it, that it instant laid him low ;
Page 160 - Wit laughs at things ; Humor laughs with them. Wit lashes external appearances, or cunningly exaggerates single foibles into character ; Humor glides into the heart of its object, looks lovingly on the infirmities it detects, and represents the whole man. "Wit is abrupt, darting, scornful, and tosses its analogies in your face ; Humor is slow and shy, insinuating its fun into your heart.