The poetical and prose remains of Edward Marsh Heavisides, ed. by H. Heavisides |
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... ideas that are fraught with a new philosophy , and sentiments that take their colour from the prevailing features of the age in which he writes . To those who read for excitement alone , or to ON THE WRITINGS OF DICKENS . 3.
... ideas that are fraught with a new philosophy , and sentiments that take their colour from the prevailing features of the age in which he writes . To those who read for excitement alone , or to ON THE WRITINGS OF DICKENS . 3.
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... ideas that shewed to many what would be the ultimate tendency of his productions . His exposures of such characters as Dodson and Fogg have been the means of lessening that disgraceful class of London pettifoggers , who degrade the ...
... ideas that shewed to many what would be the ultimate tendency of his productions . His exposures of such characters as Dodson and Fogg have been the means of lessening that disgraceful class of London pettifoggers , who degrade the ...
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... ideas so strongly impressed upon the author's mind , it might naturally be expected that his pen would paint in its blackest colours - that he would launch out into the most powerful vein of satirical invective , and seek , like the old ...
... ideas so strongly impressed upon the author's mind , it might naturally be expected that his pen would paint in its blackest colours - that he would launch out into the most powerful vein of satirical invective , and seek , like the old ...
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... idea of the author . His idea is to picture characters in a complete state of ignorance , almost approaching to savageness , and to bring around them cirumstances which pro- duce a material change in their rude and uncouth natures ...
... idea of the author . His idea is to picture characters in a complete state of ignorance , almost approaching to savageness , and to bring around them cirumstances which pro- duce a material change in their rude and uncouth natures ...
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... idea but that the author was writing for the Press instead of the People - supplying the compositors with copy , but fast losing his well - earned popu- larity with his readers . At this period Dickens paid a visit to America . It was ...
... idea but that the author was writing for the Press instead of the People - supplying the compositors with copy , but fast losing his well - earned popu- larity with his readers . At this period Dickens paid a visit to America . It was ...
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The Poetical and Prose Remains of Edward Marsh Heavisides (Classic Reprint) Edward Marsh Heavisides No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 79 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Page 6 - State as a means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, this class of schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted...
Page 102 - Upon her face there was the tint of grief, The settled shadow of an inward strife, And an unquiet drooping of the eye As if its lid were charged with unshed tears.
Page 6 - ... qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhaps, to send him out of it; in the chemist, the attorney, the butcher, the baker, the candlestickmaker; the whole round of crafts and trades, the schoolmaster excepted...
Page 120 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 4 - I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there.
Page 35 - All that this World is proud of. From their spheres The stars of human glory are cast down ; Perish the roses and the flowers of Kings, Princes, and Emperors, and the crowns and palms Of all the Mighty, withered and consumed ! Nor is power given to lowliest Innocence Long to protect her own.
Page 102 - Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child ! Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart? When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled, And then we parted, — not as now we part, But with a hope. — Awaking with a start, The waters heave around me; and on high The winds lift up their voices: I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
Page 133 - ... to hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
Page 6 - ... from such a state of things, and to flourish in it ; these Yorkshire school-masters were the lowest and most rotten round in the whole ladder. Traders in the avarice, indifference, or imbecility of parents, and the helplessness of children...