Littell's Living Age, Volume 176Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1888 - Literature |
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... ment which is of considerable weight . Her nineteen years of tried fidelity to her last husband , Alfonso d'Este , at a time when Lucrezia was still young and beauti- ful , must indeed make us incredulous of so horrible a depravity in ...
... ment which is of considerable weight . Her nineteen years of tried fidelity to her last husband , Alfonso d'Este , at a time when Lucrezia was still young and beauti- ful , must indeed make us incredulous of so horrible a depravity in ...
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... ment , in which some details may be disputed , but the main points are irrefutable . molti mesi questo cardinal Valenza usava con la cog- We may here quote a grimly concise document which is as yet unknown to history - the note in the ...
... ment , in which some details may be disputed , but the main points are irrefutable . molti mesi questo cardinal Valenza usava con la cog- We may here quote a grimly concise document which is as yet unknown to history - the note in the ...
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... ment . " He who has done the deed lacks in the lane , to advance . A horseman ap- neither talent nor courage , and , every peared first , carrying behind him a corpse , way , must be recognized as a past - master . whose head and arms ...
... ment . " He who has done the deed lacks in the lane , to advance . A horseman ap- neither talent nor courage , and , every peared first , carrying behind him a corpse , way , must be recognized as a past - master . whose head and arms ...
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... ment ; by renouncing his title , Cæsar re- nounced his benefices , and thirty - five thou- sand florins of gold would fall in a grateful shower on the cardinals who supported the Holy See . This was the finishing touch ; the vote was ...
... ment ; by renouncing his title , Cæsar re- nounced his benefices , and thirty - five thou- sand florins of gold would fall in a grateful shower on the cardinals who supported the Holy See . This was the finishing touch ; the vote was ...
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... ment , at once tiresome and false . We the story does not always end so in life ; are not told to believe , for example , that neither does it end so in Count Tolstoi's Anna is wonderfully exalted and ennobled novel . Anna recovers from ...
... ment , at once tiresome and false . We the story does not always end so in life ; are not told to believe , for example , that neither does it end so in Count Tolstoi's Anna is wonderfully exalted and ennobled novel . Anna recovers from ...
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Page 218 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 413 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 361 - Come wealth or want, come good or ill, Let young and old accept their part, And bow before the Awful Will, And bear it with an honest heart, Who misses or who wins the prize. — Go, lose or conquer as you can ; But if you fail, or if you rise, Be each, pray God, a gentleman.
Page 430 - Rattle his bones over the stones! He's only a pauper whom nobody owns!
Page 371 - IMLAC now felt the enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandize his own profession, when the prince cried out, "Enough! Thou hast convinced me, that no human being can ever be a poet.
Page 371 - Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work ; but I was so anxious to avoid prejudice, that I determined not for some time to write even the briefest sketch of it. In June 1842 I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of 1844 into one of 230 pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess.
Page 412 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Page 371 - I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit.
Page 260 - There is a passage in Hogg's capitally written and most interesting account of Shelley which I wrote down when I first read it and have borne in mind ever since; so beautifully it seemed to render the true Shelley. Hogg has been speaking of the intellectual expression of Shelley's features, and he goes on: "Nor was the moral expression less beautiful than the intellectual; for there was a softness, a delicacy, a gentleness, and especially (though this will surprise many) that air of profound religious...
Page 59 - But the truth is we are not to take Anna Karenine as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life. A piece of life it is. The author has not invented and combined it, he has seen it; it has all happened before his inward eye, and it was in this wise that it happened.