In Defense of Harriet Shelley and Other EssaysHarper, 1918 - 404 pages |
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... Hogg , lived . Shelley presently ran down to London , and Hogg took this opportunity to make love to the young wife . She repulsed him , and re- ported the fact to her husband when he got back . It seems a pity that Shelley did not copy ...
... Hogg , lived . Shelley presently ran down to London , and Hogg took this opportunity to make love to the young wife . She repulsed him , and re- ported the fact to her husband when he got back . It seems a pity that Shelley did not copy ...
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... Hogg says of Mrs. Boinville : " The greater part of her associates were odious . I generally found there two or three sentimental young butchers , an emi- nently philosophical tinker , and several very unsophisticated medical ...
... Hogg says of Mrs. Boinville : " The greater part of her associates were odious . I generally found there two or three sentimental young butchers , an emi- nently philosophical tinker , and several very unsophisticated medical ...
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... Hogg says she was a prey to a kind of sweet melancholy , arising from causes purely im- aginary ; she required consolation , and found it in Petrarch . He also says , " Bysshe entered at once fully into her views and caught the soft ...
... Hogg says she was a prey to a kind of sweet melancholy , arising from causes purely im- aginary ; she required consolation , and found it in Petrarch . He also says , " Bysshe entered at once fully into her views and caught the soft ...
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... Hogg , who also dubbed it " Shelley's paradise " later , she might hope to per- suade him to stay away from it permanently ; and because she might also hope that his brain would cool , now , and his heart become healthy , and both brain ...
... Hogg , who also dubbed it " Shelley's paradise " later , she might hope to per- suade him to stay away from it permanently ; and because she might also hope that his brain would cool , now , and his heart become healthy , and both brain ...
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... Hogg , said , " The Shelleys have made an addition to their party in the person of a cold scholar , who , I think , has neither taste nor feeling . This , Shelley will perceive sooner or later , for his warm nature craves sympathy ...
... Hogg , said , " The Shelleys have made an addition to their party in the person of a cold scholar , who , I think , has neither taste nor feeling . This , Shelley will perceive sooner or later , for his warm nature craves sympathy ...
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Page 108 - The feller took the money and started away; and when he was going out at the door he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder — so — at Dan'l, and says again, very deliberate: "Well," he says, "I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.
Page 108 - Smiley says, easy and careless, "he's good enough for one thing. I should judge— he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county." The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Smiley, and says, very deliberate, "Well," he says, "I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.
Page 43 - ... midnight possess their own repose, For the weary winds are silent, or the moon is in the deep : Some respite to its turbulence unresting ocean , knows; Whatever moves, or toils, or grieves, hath its appointed sleep. Thou in the grave shalt rest...
Page 312 - Here's a sigh to those who love me, And a smile to those who hate ; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate. Though the ocean roar around me, Yet it still shall bear me on ; Though a desert should surround me, It hath springs that may be won.
Page 291 - All things are mortal but the Jew ; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?
Page 65 - There are nineteen rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction — some say twentytwo. In Deerslayer Cooper violated eighteen of them.
Page 71 - Let us guess, then, that it was about one hundred and forty feet long. It was of " greater breadth than common." Let us guess, then, that it was about sixteen feet wide. This leviathan had been prowling down bends which were but a third as long as itself, and scraping between banks where it had only two feet of space to spare on each side. We cannot too much admire this miracle. A low-roofed log dwelling occupies *' two-thirds of the ark's length" — a dwelling ninety feet long and sixteen feet...
Page 133 - Candide, written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas; insomuch that I have heard Johnson say that if they had not been published so closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other.
Page 107 - I believe him. Why, I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor — Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog — and sing out,
Page 108 - It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't — it's only just a frog." And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, "H'm — so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?