With the Immortals

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Macmillan and Company, 1888 - 312 ページ
 

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209 ページ - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...
300 ページ - is so remarkable a book as to be certain of as wide a popularity as any of its predecessors. The keenest interest for most readers will lie in its demonstration of the latest revelations of hypnotic science. . . . But ' The Witch of Prague ' is not merely a striking exposition of the far-reaching possibilities of a new science ; it is a romance of singular daring and power.
163 ページ - Pope had, in proportions very nicely adjusted to each other, all the qualities that constitute genius. He had Invention, by which new trains of events are formed, and new scenes of imagery displayed, as in the Rape of the Lock; and by which extrinsick and adventitious embellishments and illustrations are connected with a known subject, as in the Essay on Criticism.
209 ページ - In digging up your bones, Tom Paine, Will. Cobbett has done well : You visit him on earth again, He'll visit you in hell.
300 ページ - The plot is skilfully concocted, and the interest is sustained to the end. The various events, romantic, and even sensational, follow naturally and neatly, and the whole is a very clever piece of work.
255 ページ - ... nation; he had counselled them to remain faithful to their alliance with that king, the instrument of Providence, even though his conduct, especially in reference to the affairs of Pisa, had been highly culpable. This alliance however ranged the Florentines among the enemies of pope Alexander VI., one of the founders of the league which had driven the French out of Italy ; he accused them of being traitors to the church and to their country for their attachment to a foreign prince. Alexander,...

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