In Defense of Harriet Shelley and Other EssaysHarper, 1918 - 404 pages |
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... told that the proofs of it were in this book , and that this book's verdict is accepted in the girls ' colleges of America and its view taught in their literary classes . In each of these six years multitudes of young people in our ...
... told that the proofs of it were in this book , and that this book's verdict is accepted in the girls ' colleges of America and its view taught in their literary classes . In each of these six years multitudes of young people in our ...
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... told by the biography why Shelley deserted his wife and child and took up with Cornelia Turner and Italian . It was not on account of Cornelia's sighs and sentimentalities and tea and manna and late hours and soft and sweet and indus ...
... told by the biography why Shelley deserted his wife and child and took up with Cornelia Turner and Italian . It was not on account of Cornelia's sighs and sentimentalities and tea and manna and late hours and soft and sweet and indus ...
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... he married Harriet than he was with Harriet , and told the lady so with sim- ple and unostentatious candor . He was more in love with Cornelia than he was with Harriet in the end of 1813 and the beginning of 1814 , yet 46 MARK TWAIN.
... he married Harriet than he was with Harriet , and told the lady so with sim- ple and unostentatious candor . He was more in love with Cornelia than he was with Harriet in the end of 1813 and the beginning of 1814 , yet 46 MARK TWAIN.
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... told Mary all his aggravations and sorrows and griefs , and about the wet - nurse and the bonnet- shop and the surgeon and the carriage , and the sister - in - law that blocked the London game , and about Cornelia and her mamma , and ...
... told Mary all his aggravations and sorrows and griefs , and about the wet - nurse and the bonnet- shop and the surgeon and the carriage , and the sister - in - law that blocked the London game , and about Cornelia and her mamma , and ...
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... told him about political justice ; he told her about the deadly sister - in - law , she told him about her mother ; he told her about the bonnet- shop , she murmured back about the rights of woman ; then he assuaged her , then she ...
... told him about political justice ; he told her about the deadly sister - in - law , she told him about her mother ; he told her about the bonnet- shop , she murmured back about the rights of woman ; then he assuaged her , then she ...
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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?