John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways. A Book Without Beginning

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Roberts Brothers, 1886 - 266 ページ
 

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111 ページ - Paradise ! How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine !
262 ページ - alone ought to give her a kind of pre-emptive right to the love and gratitude of our young folks. It requires genius to conceive a purely imaginary work which must of necessity deal with the supernatural, without running into a mere riot of fantastic absurdity; but genius Miss Ingelow has and the story of ' Jack ' is as careless and joyous, but as delicate, as a picture of childhood."— Eclectic.
266 ページ - Murillo in literature," and that the story "is one of the most artistic creations of American literature." Says a lady, herself an author, "to me it is the most distinctive piece of work we have had in this country since 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' and its exquisite finish of style is beyond that classic.
262 ページ - English, these five stories are studies for the artist, sermons for the thoughtful, and a rare source of delight for all who can find pleasure in really good works of prose fiction. . . They are prose poems, carefully meditated and exquisitely touched in by a teacher ready to sympathize with every joy and sorrow.
174 ページ - Ingelow's books the hero says: "Being in a confidential humour, I talked over some of the troubles of human life with a pleasant, careworn gentlewoman who lived in one of my houses, and she admitted that there was nothing in the house she could not do with pleasure, but she must have a servant, else ' who was to answer the door ?' "' It would be bad for your health to answer it yourself?' " She scorned the question. ' No; but sometimes people come to call.
262 ページ - Ingelow is, to our mind, the most charming of all living writers for children, and ' Mopsa ' alone ought to give her a kind of pre-emptive right to the love and gratitude of our young folks. It requires genius to conceive a purely imaginary work which must of necessity deal with the supernatural, without running into a mere riot of fantastic absurdity ; but genius Miss Ingelow has. and the story of Jack...
246 ページ - sa divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will." A De Moivre may calculate, with mathematical nicety, what he calls the " doctrine of chances " ; but experience will falsify the calculation in perhaps five cases out of ten. The profound mathematician tells you that, if you throw the dice, it is thirty to one against your turning up a particular number...
105 ページ - The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.
148 ページ - Very few people have the least idea what wild creatures are like. Their notion generally is to shoot them, and then pick them up for examination ; which is the same thing as if some being of superior race, seeing children at play, were to shoot a few at long range, and then turn them over and describe them and consider himself learned in their structure, habits, and appearance.
91 ページ - It is now the fashion among a few to admire a hungry and despairing face, with a lean lanky figure and what our grandmothers called gooseberry eyes.

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