The Disowned, Volume 1J. & B. Williams, 1839 |
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Page vi
... novel , until , by one of the refined and al- most imperceptible casualities in human life , the hero of the one becomes the innocent cause of the catastrophe of the other , much has been said . It appeared to me , how- ever , that in ...
... novel , until , by one of the refined and al- most imperceptible casualities in human life , the hero of the one becomes the innocent cause of the catastrophe of the other , much has been said . It appeared to me , how- ever , that in ...
Page vii
... novel , is not rather to be sought for than shunned ? - and whether Johnson is not right when he says , that " Fiction cannot move so much but that the attention may be easily trans- ferred , " - -that " the disturbance of one man may ...
... novel , is not rather to be sought for than shunned ? - and whether Johnson is not right when he says , that " Fiction cannot move so much but that the attention may be easily trans- ferred , " - -that " the disturbance of one man may ...
Page ix
... novels of Field- ing , Smollet , and Le Sage , are essentially narrative ; they but ill adapt themselves to the stage , and every attempt to reduce them into the dramatic shape has been singularly unsuccessful . The old Greek romances ...
... novels of Field- ing , Smollet , and Le Sage , are essentially narrative ; they but ill adapt themselves to the stage , and every attempt to reduce them into the dramatic shape has been singularly unsuccessful . The old Greek romances ...
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... novel . This it was reserved for the glorious imagination of Scott to create , and perhaps to perfect . Not only in ... novels require but little of the scissors to become plays . But it was as he proceeded in his art , that his fictions ...
... novel . This it was reserved for the glorious imagination of Scott to create , and perhaps to perfect . Not only in ... novels require but little of the scissors to become plays . But it was as he proceeded in his art , that his fictions ...
Page xv
... novel - writing equally excel- lent , to which all dramatic rules are inapplicable ; —namely , the narrative . And if Gil Blas were published for the first time to - morrow , we should be told that it was deficient in plot and ...
... novel - writing equally excel- lent , to which all dramatic rules are inapplicable ; —namely , the narrative . And if Gil Blas were published for the first time to - morrow , we should be told that it was deficient in plot and ...
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Page 46 - Under the Greenwood Tree Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i...
Page 217 - That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind is what everybody will allow. And to me it seems no less evident that the various sensations or ideas imprinted on the Sense, however blended or combined together (that is, whatever objects they compose), cannot exist otherwise than in a mind perceiving them.
Page 152 - Ah ! fleeter far than fleetest storm or steed, Or the death they bear, The heart which tender thought clothes like a dove With the wings of care ; In the battle, in the darkness, in the need, Shall mine cling to thee, Nor claim one smile for all the comfort, love, It may bring to thee.
Page 83 - Believe me, the providence of God has established such an order in the world, that of all which belongs to us the least valuable parts can alone fall under the will of others. Whatever is best is safest ; lies out of the reach of human power ; can neither be given nor taken away. Such is this great and beautiful work of nature, the world. Such is the mind of man, which contemplates and admires the world whereof it makes the noblest part. These are inseparably ours, and as long as we remain in one...
Page 261 - Twas pity Nature brought ye forth Merely to show your worth, And lose you quite. But you are lovely leaves, where we May read how soon things have Their end, though ne'er so brave: And after they have shown their pride Like you, awhile, they glide Into the grave.
Page 55 - For gems hid in some forlorn creek: We all pearls scorn, Save what the dewy morn Congeals upon each little spire of grass, Which careless shepherds beat down as they pass: And gold ne'er here appears, Save what the yellow Ceres bears. Blest silent groves ! Oh may you be For ever Mirth's best nursery!
Page 309 - ... which our nature is heir to. Thus engaged, whatever be our errors, there will be nobility, not weakness, in our remorse ; whatever our failure, virtue, not selfishness, in our regret ; and, in success, vanity itself will become holy and triumph eternal.
Page 260 - which shines, but warms not with its powerless rays," we turn to thy deeper and more secret haunts. Thy wilderness is all before us — where to choose our place of rest; and to our eyes, thy hidden recesses are revealed. The clock of St. Paul's had tolled the second hour of morning. Within a small and humble apartment in the very heart of the city, there sat a writer, whose lucubrations, then obscure and unknown, were destined, years afterwards, to excite the vague...
Page 46 - It was in some such mood, and perhaps under one of those very trees before me, which threw their broad shades over the grassy banks and quivering waters of the Avon, that the poet's fancy may have...
Page 138 - YE shepherds, give ear to my lay, And take no more heed of my sheep; They have nothing to do but to stray ; I have nothing to do but to weep. Yet do...