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... character . Turning from the various churches as a whole , what a series of pictures do we find , of earnest living and holy dying . Indi- vidual characters brought out so strongly , with all their manly strivings , and simple faith ...
... character . Turning from the various churches as a whole , what a series of pictures do we find , of earnest living and holy dying . Indi- vidual characters brought out so strongly , with all their manly strivings , and simple faith ...
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... characters boldly carved , as with the chisel of a master sculptor . Every place has its own traditions and memories . Year by year they are becoming fainter - fading as rainbows do . There are many such , which love should have ...
... characters boldly carved , as with the chisel of a master sculptor . Every place has its own traditions and memories . Year by year they are becoming fainter - fading as rainbows do . There are many such , which love should have ...
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... by the successes , failures , and vicissitudes of every character , in a good and practical novel . Taking , then , as our standard of a novelist 44 THE WALSALL OBSERVER . LINES, ON HEARING AN OLD FAVOURITE MELODY BULWER.
... by the successes , failures , and vicissitudes of every character , in a good and practical novel . Taking , then , as our standard of a novelist 44 THE WALSALL OBSERVER . LINES, ON HEARING AN OLD FAVOURITE MELODY BULWER.
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... 'œuvre . " It is unrivalled for variety of character , force of description , power and aptness of illustration teaching the most important lessons with a success unequalled . : Let us glance at some of the principal characters in BULWER .
... 'œuvre . " It is unrivalled for variety of character , force of description , power and aptness of illustration teaching the most important lessons with a success unequalled . : Let us glance at some of the principal characters in BULWER .
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Let us glance at some of the principal characters in " The Caxtons . " The reader who is familiar with it will ... character , the chivalrous virtues , the high notions of honour , of which the French have always given us such fine ...
Let us glance at some of the principal characters in " The Caxtons . " The reader who is familiar with it will ... character , the chivalrous virtues , the high notions of honour , of which the French have always given us such fine ...
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Page 221 - I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 221 - ... as God made the world; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the...
Page 171 - Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled ; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build.
Page 88 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 201 - There is given Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power And magic in the ruined battlement, For which the palace of the present hour Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower.
Page 125 - No, no! knock his brains out; down with him; kill him at once.' Others said, 'Nay, but we will hear him first.' I began asking, 'What evil have I done? Which of you all have I wronged in word or deed?
Page 224 - Then the hangman kneeled down and asked her forgiveness, whom she forgave most willingly. Then he willed her to stand upon the straw ; which doing, she saw the block. Then she said, " I pray you dispatch me quickly.
Page 126 - An honest butcher, who was a little farther off said it was a shame they should do thus; and pulled back four or five, one after another, who were running on the most fiercely. The people then, as if it had been by common consent, fell back to the right and left; while those three or four men took me between them, and carried me through them all. But on the bridge the mob rallied again: we therefore went on one side over the...
Page 125 - In the mean time my strength and my voice returned, and I broke out aloud into prayer. And now the man who had just before headed the mob, turned and said, ' Sir, I will spend my life for you. Follow me, and not one soul here shall touch a hair of your head.
Page 221 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me.