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...ough I assure you we have one capital book in the language, a book of fables by an old missionary of the unpromising name of Pratt, which is simply th... ...nown to me. I suppose I should except La Fontaine, but L. F. takes a 33 V ailima Letters long time; these are brief as the books of our childhood, ... ...el so; and I’ve got to overhaul it once again to my sor- row. I was all yesterday revising, and found a lot of slacknesses and (what is worse in this ... ...ise has no attractions for any of us. I don’t know if I remembered to say how much pleased I was with Across the Plains in every way, inside and out, ... ...he income that really comes in of itself while all you have to do is just to blossom and exist and sit on chairs. Think how beautiful it would be not ... ...e, Lloyd and I, and drove in great style, with a native out- rider, to the prison; a huge gift of ava and tobacco under the seats. The prison is now u... ...don’t know that he would show his best, but he is a re- markably fine fellow, in every department of life. We have other visitors in port. A Count Fes...

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...m? I keep all my own things there, out of the way of the crit- ics.’ ‘What critics?’ inquired Anne. ‘Lizzie, to be sure, and Papa,’ said Helen; ‘I thi... ...s against beauty because of its perish- able nature, and learning, because literary ladies are fit for nothing.’ ‘Meaning to imply,’ said Elizabeth, ‘... ...king a bunch of roses of different colours; Anne admired it very much, but critics were not wanting to this, as to every other performance of Helen’s.... ... coming up to Helen; ‘why, Anne, where are your eyes? did you never see an Austrian briar, just the the colour of Helen’s lambs-wools?’ Though this wa... ...r badness soon is gained, forth bounce My rhymes such as they are; Good critics, on my lines don’t pounce, Though on the ear they jar. I’ve had ...

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...ead Man’s Lake, at the foot of the Sidelhorn. This lonely spot, once used for an extempore burying-place, after a sangui- nary battue between the Fren... ... in that way might occur to him; but no, the child was saved and he was glad, that was sufficient—he cared not a straw for MY feelings, or my loss of ... ...n one hand and a florin in the other, intending to give him the former if he survived and the latter if he killed himself—for his loss would be my gai... ...as already beginning to be felt in the art of the Republic. The Trunk is bound or bor- dered with leather all around where the lid joins the main body... ... the canvas every day and publicly exhibited—without a growl from anybody—for they are in- nocent, they are inoffensive, being works of art. But sup- ... ...The doll-faces of other painted babes may mean one thing, they may mean another, but with the “Moses” the case is different. The most famous of all th...

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...ous “serialisation” in the two countries that the chang- ing conditions of literary intercourse between England and the United States had up to then l... ...these reminiscences; though on the whole, no doubt, one’s book, and one’s “literary effort” at large, were to be the better for them. Strangely fertil... ...r and ungenerous one. Here we get exactly the high price of the novel as a literary form— its power not only, while preserving that form with close- n... ...eplorably convivial, he was known to have gambled freely. A few very harsh critics went so far as to say that he had not even brought up his daughters... ...he played in a much smaller degree than would have seemed probable to many critics. It came from a certain fear. 96 The Portrait of a Lady CHAPTER X ... ...tion might have ranked her as a German—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a countess, a princess. It would never have been supp... ...” “Of course you’re always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however,” Ralph added, “and you’ll condemn them all!” “I shall see...

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...re he was twelve. Before he was twenty he was learning outpost duty in the Austrian frontier cavalry. He served in the Peninsula, served in Canada, se... ...nd. Lord Ormont wrote intemperately. His Titanic hurling of blocks against critics did no harm to an enemy skilled in the use of trimmer weapons, nota... ...a wider grasp, I suppose.” He pursed his month, pondering. “No; and in the Austrian ser- vice, too; generals of cavalry are left to whistle for an ind... ...lish on paper let the stuff go tolerantly unexamined, but with a degree of literary con- tempt at heart for the writer who had that woman-scented repu... .... Pagnell’s communications, to provoke the secretary’s 81 George Meredith literary contempt of his behaviour to his wife. However, the former might b...

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...been worked out in public lectures. No one will ever give me credit for my literary honesty. Merely by plundering you I might have been as learned as ... ...y, these two romances form a pair, like twins of opposite sexes. This is a literary vagary to which a writer may for once give way, especially as part... ...y say, Liaisons dangereuses!” Crevel might have gone on with his string of literary allu- sions; the Baron heard him as a deaf man listens when he is ... ...essing that his own opinion agreed with that of every other artist, of the critics, and the public. He said to me in the garden before breakfast, ‘If ... ...s. All honor to those we left there!” and the old man lifted his hat. “The Austrians were amazed at the dash of it.—The Emperor made the man you saw a...

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...r of Shakespeare or Lopez de Vega, published in 1822, which made a sort of literary revolution when the great question of the classics and the romanti... ...character, in consideration of the fact that she plays a great part in the literary history of our epoch, and that her influence over Calyste was grea... ...rs of age she was as well-informed on all topics as a young man entering a literary career has need to be in our day. Her prodigious read- ing control... ...d about the nostrils; very shrewd and clever, but supercilious. She has an Austrian mouth; the upper lip has more character than the lower, which drop... ...ways;” “My dear, that is a thing which is never done,” etc. Many bourgeois critics unjustly deny the innocence and vir- tue of young girls who, like S...

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...he reader, almost seeming to justify the remark of one of his most lenient critics—that, after all, Rousseau had the soul of a lackey. He possessed, h... ...e described in this place; but they constitute an important chapter in the literary and social history of the time. In the work with which we are imme... ... he wrote a violent letter to Hume, calling him “one of the worst of men.” Literary Paris had combined with Hume and the English Government to sur- ro... ...heoretically; we conversed together, and he communicated to me some of his literary projects. This soon formed betwixt us a more intimate connection, ... ...bruzzo, where he was secretly to stir up the people at the approach of the Austrians. In the absence of M. le Comte de Montaigu, who did not give hims... ...ns, it was clearly seen whom I had in view, and the remark had not escaped critics, because Madam de Boufflers had several times mentioned the subject...

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...k and hide itself. I 111 Thackeray know the Misses Osborne were excellent critics of a Cash- mere shawl, or a pink satin slip; and when Miss Turner h... ...l dearest Matilda!” Miss Briggs, it will be seen by her language, was of a literary and sentimental turn, and had once published a volume of poems—”Tr... ...id. “The French are very strong, sir,” Dobbin went on. “The Rus- sians and Austrians will be a long time before they can bring their troops down. We s...

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... actual position. Hence his real strength. Strong men are always their own critics. Under the Restoration he had made the most of his former condition... ... the pretty Madame de Rastignac offered him, “will you come with me to the Austrian ambassador’s?” “My dear fellow, I am too recently married not to g... .... But I like able men, and I will attend to your affair.” They reached the Austrian embassy. The Comte de Rastignac saw the minister of the interior i... ... in the face of every rule of art and expose the present pious guardian of literary orthodoxy to the wrath of critics. In presence of this diffi- cult... ...nd expose the present pious guardian of literary orthodoxy to the wrath of critics. In presence of this diffi- culty, the author would find himself gr... ...Oh! that religious works ought not to be delivered over to the judgment of critics, or to the gaze of a public rotten with scepticism; they ought, he ...

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...r, took the criti- cisms of the Slavophiles to heart; and he palliated his critics by promising to bring about in the succeeding parts of his novel th... ...847) that Gogol published his Corre- spondence with Friends, and aroused a literary contro- versy that is alive to this day. Tolstoi is to be found am... ... Indeed, at moments of the kind his discourse had assumed some- thing of a literary vein, in that invariably he had stated that, being a worm of no ac... ...e in the Seven Years’ War, met with disaster when attempting to assist the Austrians against the French in 1799. 104 Dead Souls may be destined to be... ...he somewhat reassured Tientietnikov con- cluded that his visitor must be a literary, knowledge-seek- ing professor who was engaged in roaming the coun...

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...y sent undis- tinguished able men to army and navy—lieutenants given to be critics of their captains, but trustworthy for their work. In the later lif... ...ew had accompanied the son of the writer, Captain de Croisnel, on board an Austrian boat out of the East, and was lying in V enice under a return- att... ...s, and then resumed the trot, apparently in search of fresh ammunition. An Austrian sentinel looked on passively, and a police inspector peeringly. Th... ... to be the old gentleman’s until some of the apparatus of an Institute for literary and scientific instruction revealed itself to him, and he heard Mr... ... I remember in the year of Revolution there was danger of a rising in some Austrian city, and a colonel of a regiment commanded his band to play. The ... ...osition of the reply against Lydiard, yielding to him on a point or two of literary judge- ment, only the more vehemently to maintain his ideas of dis... ...ekly, however, is a poor thing, out of the tide, behind the date, mainly a literary periodical, no foremost combatant in politics, no champion in the ...

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...a life of pleasure and enlightenment. All of this without hindrance to his literary studies, which carried him up to the seventh standard at an except... ...t it out, you fools!” he said. He seized a rug from the trailer (it was an Austrian blan- ket, and Bert’s winter coverlet) and began to beat at the bu... ...er banged and crackled. The crowd di- vided itself into an outer circle of critics, advisers, and sec- ondary characters, who had played undistinguish... ...the long-dis- puted Bill for universal military service in New York State. Critics of the American character are disposed to consider— that up to the ...

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... she played in a much smaller degree than would have seemed probable to many critics. It came from a certain fear. 66 Portrait of a Lady CHAPTER 10 T... ..., that he should be delighted to receive her at Gardencourt. “Though she’s a literary lady,” he said, “I suppose that, being an American, she won’t sh... ... considerable stay at Gardencourt. She occupied herself in the mornings with literary labour; but in spite of this Isabel spent many hours with her fr... ...ckens—and drive over the town in those delightful han soms. Henrietta was a literary woman, and the great advantage of being a literary woman was tha... ...vation might have ranked her as a German—a German of high degree, perhaps an Austrian, a baroness, a countess, a princess. It would never have been su... ...d.” “Of course you’re always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however,” Ralph added, “and you’ll condemn them all!” “I shall s...

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...ter’s prospects of success, is infinitely smaller than the public to which literary men make their appeal. It is com- posed of a very limited body of ... ... ity—as a supernumerary finger, or an anomalous shape of feature, like the Austrian lip—is wont to show itself in a family after a very wayward fashio... ...ion. And hence it happens, that shallow and worldly men are among the best critics of their works; a taste for pictorial art is often no more than a p... ...e is no answering such objections. The great church smiles calmly upon its critics, and, for all response, says, “Look at me!” and if you still murmur... ...a del Popolo, at one extremity of the course, and before the palace of the Austrian embassy, at the other, and by the column of Antoninus, midway betw...

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... femi- nine) alluded to when they spoke of his delightful fresh- ness, and critics of harsher sensibilities (of the other sex) when they denounced his... ...n a sweet, soft voice, used language at times a trifle superfine, and made literary allusions. These had often a patriotic strain, and Rowland had mor... ...they fill me with a kind of rabbia. Last summer, at Carlsbad, there was an Austrian count, with enormous estates and some great office at court. He wa... ..., and you won’t get them for nothing! You dine 188 Roderick Hudson at the Austrian Embassy, and that Frenchman is to pow- der your hair. You ‘re to c...

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... good to be wasted upon periodicals.’ Violet, curious to know who was this literary correspon- dent, glanced at the letter, and read the address, to ‘... ...rom the world, I must 167 Yonge make the most of them. I give out that my literary affairs require my presence; but you, as the means of putting me i... ...tendance?’ ‘No; he and Arthur are lingering at luncheon, talking about the Austrian army. When did you hear about this?’ 225 Yonge ‘ As soon as I cam... ..., and Puss never commits herself, applauding only her own music—like other critics. We reserve our hisses for others.’ ‘How do you feed the owl, Percy... ...ter a little interval, Violet began to dress for a party at the house of a literary friend of Lady Martindale’s, where they were to meet an Eastern gr...

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...cussing, arguing, fighting behind bar- ricades in Paris, flying before the Austrian cav- 123 W. Somerset Maugham alry in Milan, imprisoned here, exil... ...g for Philip. He was a man who saw nothing for himself, but only through a literary atmosphere, and he was dan- gerous because he had deceived himself... ...narra- tion of her struggles. He asked her why she did not try her hand at literary work of a better sort, but she knew that she had no talent, and th... ...hey all said so, the barristers and their wives who dined with us, and the literary stock- brokers, and the budding politicians; oh, she was a charmin... ...ge of the portrait-painter’s career when he was noticed a good deal by the critics and found a number of aristocratic ladies who were willing to allow...

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...action and simplicity, and complete absence of life, action and simplicity—literary and argumen- tative artisans and repulsive coquetry with them: ‘Fe... ...livered over to Austria, which claimed the privilege of punishing him. The Austrians, in their turn, condemned him to death in May, 1851, and again hi... ...entence was commuted to imprisonment for life. In the 35 Bertrand Russell Austrian prisons he had fetters on hands and feet, and in one of them he wa... ...ent of Bakunin, for the Russian Government in its turn demanded him of the Austrians, who delivered him up. In Russia he was confined, first in the Pe... ... between two insurrections. There is something of Anarchism in his lack of literary order. His best- known work is a fragment entitled by its editors ... ... fire of the militia, a number of women and children were burned to death.[Literary Digest, May 2 and May 16, 1914.] Many other instances of pitched b... ... society is being considered. 93 Bertrand Russell Socialist and Anarchist critics of existing society point, with perfect truth, to certain capitalis... ...e to the power of the Press. The Press is the second great factor to which critics of capi- talism point when they wish to prove that capitalism is th... ...capitalism in promoting war, there is another, much less emphasized by the critics of capi- talism, but by no means less important: I mean the pugnaci...

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... example. Prussia’s well horsed, and for the work it’s intended to do, the Austrian light cavalry’s a model. So I’m told. I’ll see for myself. Then we... ...ed, accepting the mental alertness he fastened on her. We must perforce be critics of these tear-away wits; which are, moreover, so threadbare to conc... ...stcoat the miniature, ‘what don’t they say here! It’s a bright day for the Austrian capital that has her by 44 Celt and Saxon the river Danube. Yours... ...ng, and at the same time your journals are venting their fine irony at the Austrians and the Russians and the Prussians for tearing Poland to strips w... ...eakfast-room, it marks that fatal period of de- generacy for us, which our critics of Literature as well as Art are one voice in denouncing, when the ... ...f them. He is ready to knock knighthood on the heads of men of brains—even literary brains. They shall be knights, an ornamental body. T o make them p... ...maginable, would present us prob- ably the most prodigious Gigantomachy in literary polem- ics. It is not imaginable among comparative pygmies. But Ro... ...rom a tempest and consume his Titan breakfast.’ ‘We are qualifying for the literary craft, Miss O’Donnell,’ said Mr. Colesworth. 148 Celt and Saxon ‘...

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...in array (for such a stretch of time) of really innocent attitudes: Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conrad reminiscent, Conrad controversial. Well,... ... to cope with his task. He imagines it more gigan- tic than it is. And yet literary creation being only one of the legitimate forms of human activity ... ...th is that more than one kind of intellec- tual cowardice hides behind the literary formulas. And Stendhal was pre-eminently courageous. He wrote his ... ...doubt,—and it may be a consolation to Mr. Bourne to know it—fully informed critics will point out that Mr. Davies’s poem on a dark woman combing her h... ... contempt; the Russian a bitter incredulity of the most complete kind. The Austrian proclamation, which made no promises and contented itself with poi... ...Conrad forty-five years, was received in silence. For it is a fact that in Austrian Poland alone Polish nationality was recognised as an element of th... ...the men of the Landwehr corps, that passed through Cracow to reinforce the Austrian army in Eastern Galicia. Indeed, the haughty passenger might very ...

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...ugh. His name, long familiar everywhere, has now awakened the attention of critics in all European countries to his works: he is studied wherever true... ...and whoever among us shall step forward, with such knowledge as our common critics have of Goethe, to enlighten 5 Goethe the European public, by cont... ... in the ways of all men, which qualify him to stand forth, not only as the literary ornament, but in many respects too as the T eacher and exem- plar ... ...hich some knowledge of him may be obtained. A slight glance at his general literary character and procedure, and one or two of his chief productions w... ... time; to offer the instruction, the solace, which that time required. His literary life divides itself into two portions widely different in characte... ...d received from the empress a heavy gold chain with her likeness, took the Austrian side along with some of his sons-in-law and daughters. My father h... ...in which Corneille and Racine are obliged to defend themselves against the critics and public. Here at least I plainly saw that no man knew what he wa...

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...eplace, with a painting representing apparently a battle between Turks and Austrians. The President of Magdalen College on progress always held his co... ...ence, not so much friendly as fatherly, and he was the best and kindest of critics in literary affairs. But throughout, the vicar was the personal min... ...o much friendly as fatherly, and he was the best and kindest of critics in literary affairs. But throughout, the vicar was the personal minister to ea... ..., and the curious panel picture of a battle, apparently between T urks and Austrians, has been removed. The fields beyond, bordering on Otterbourne Pa...

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... was the pair of them, as to that, and so was Chillon John, the son. Those critics quoting Nymney should look at the portrait of her in the Long Saloo... ...an gave up the ghost and bequeathed him little besides a law-suit with the Austrian Government, and the care of Carinthia Jane, the second child of th... ...he girl was born, and for the reason of her first seeing the light in that Austrian province, she was chris- tened Carinthia Jane. She was her old fat... ...sed him, so that he would not have been unwilling to see Chillon enter the Austrian service, which the young man was inclined for, subsequent to his r... .... Girls are to read; and the study of a boy starts from the monkey. But no literary surgeon or chemist shall explain positively the cause of the behav... ...inds. As I was dealing with a scholarly one, I made use of such ornamental literary skill as I possessed, to prove urgency. He supplied me with bread,... ...ed agony scenes in a play: they bring down the curtain, they don’t win the critics. I heard her “my husband” and saw his face.’ ‘You didn’t hear a whi... ...hope to have a true portrait of your mistress. Does Madge understand?’ The literary dose was a strong one for her; but she saw the index, and got a li...

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... political aggregation blind them to the nature of facts? The story of the Austrian Empire would seem to answer, no; the far more galling business of ... ...ose and preserve a fitting key of words, he should long have practised the literary scales; and it is only after years of such gymnastic that he can s... ...way platforms, as they did the other day to General Boulanger; and buy his literary works, as I hope you have just done for me. Our fathers, when they... ... his station the Bible, and perhaps Burns, are the only books of any vital literary merit that they read, feeding themselves, for the rest, on the dra... ...h as we love to prefigure for our- selves; and in the end, in spite of the critics, we may hesitate to give the preference to either. The one may ask ...

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... about 1850; that he was the favorite pupil, if one may so express it, the literary pro- tege, of Gustave Flaubert; that he made his debut late in 188... ...ing on the part of him who executed them. This is the leading trait in the literary physiog- nomy of Maupassant, as it is the leading and most profoun... ...hilate our wisdom. But this is not the whole. Maupassant has been called a literary nihilist—but (and this is the second trait of his singular genius)... ...s to the genius of the race as to smack of the soil. It is enough that the critics of to-day place Guy de Maupassant among our classic writers. He has... ...readth and vividness of his work, and one of the greatest of modern French critics has recorded the deliberate opinion, that of all T aine’s pupils Ma... ...hings hitherto unnoticed by the careless crowd. It has been said by casual critics that Maupassant lacked one quality indispensable to the produc- tio... ... was, in whose company she constantly saw Don Escovedo. “Don Escovedo.” An Austrian count, who had a loud and silly laugh, said: “Who has saddled you ... ...ls met at a coffee-house; the Greek prince began to lie and boast, and the Austrian officer gave him the lie direct. In conse- quence, it was arranged...

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... than it would be for a Prussian to denounce the Aus- trian emperor, or an Austrian to denounce the Prussian king, as a false sovereign. False! How fa... .... Even in what he did attempt, it is worth while to follow his career. His literary fate was what might have been expected. After the Persian war, the... ...he French upon the question of opinion with regard to the so- cial rank of literary men) but simply as upon a fact: they appealed to evidences not to ... ...onchrononthononthologus, they must submit to be hustled by pickpockets and critics, and to have their names docked as well as profane authors. Phil, t... ...ut God, for a purpose commensurate with man’s eternal welfare, is by these critics supposed incapable of the same petty abstinence. The same line of a... ...ion in Europe for the enlightenment of the world, and for the overthrow of literary, philosophical, and religious su- perstitions,’ I quarrel not with... ...these men who dispute this English pretension mordicus; ask him, or bid an Austrian serf ask him, what are the benefits of Protestantism, and what the... ..., were it even real, it would still be liable to the just objection of the critics—that, being marvelous in ap- pearance, even as a fact it ought not ...

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...flutterings of effort, the foundation of some ridiculous little academy of literary busybodies and hangers-on, the public recognition of this or that ... ... collective mind organised as a branch of the civil service, with authors, critics, artists, scientific investigators appointed in a phrensy of wire-p... ... before a fire, and a little distended by dinner and a sense of social and literary precedences, who uses the first person in Thackeray’s novels. It i... ...e for the classifications of the social sciences an inquiry into the chief literary forms that subserve socio- logical purposes. Of these there are tw... ... suf- frage and the ideal of equal and independent citizenship, and active critics of the conventions under which women live to-day. It is at least pl... ...e to send. Germany and Switzerland send only a few. The South European and Austrian supply is not as abundant as it was. There may come a time when Eu...

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... like a pebble from the sling. Down toppled all that had seemed ignoble or literary in his talk, down toppled tiresome R. L. S. and the “love of the e... ...o it.” Helen, with her mouth full, cried: “And that’s the man who beat the Austrians, and the Danes, and the French, and who beat the Ger- mans that w... ...out having our throats cut. There would be no trains, no ships to carry us literary people about in, no fields even. Just sav- agery. No—perhaps not e... ...f Reform. Mrs. Warrington was just back from the Colonies. Like many other critics of Empire, her mouth had been stopped with food, and she could only... ...endency to spiritualism and those things, though nothing serious. Musical, literary, artistic, but I should say normal—a very charming girl.” Margaret...

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... that gets into the biographical dictionaries. Such men do not remain mere critics and understanders with their intellect. Their ideas possess them, t... ...f these things, sometimes leaning one way sometimes the other, to suit the literary rather than the philosophic need. Whatever it is, though, it is ac... ...in all diffi- cult crises for this mode of thought, which that ex- quisite literary genius Renan took pleasure, in his later days of sweet decay, in p... ... of the total situation. The early Greeks are continually held up to us in literary works as models of the healthy-minded joy- ousness which the relig... ...n the Revival of Religion in New England, has to defend them against their critics; and their value has long been matter of debate even within the rev... ... of creatures of a day like ourselves must be provisional. The wis- est of critics is an altering being, subject to the better insight of the morrow, ... ...their spiritual concomitants. “‘Live and let live,’” writes a clear-headed Austrian officer, “is no device for an army. Contempt for one’s own comrade...

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...er, they might do that if they could. Upon these principles, which hostile critics will in vain endeavor to undermine, she laid her hand upon what see... ...orned the pavilion on the French frontier; the first objects which met the Austrian Archduch- ess on being hailed as Dauphiness, was a succession of t... ...he trans- lator of Wieland’s Oberon. Several of the great guns amongst the literary body were present; in particular, Sir W alter Scott; and he, we be... ...s singular that only one blem- ish is suggested by any of the contemporary critics in Dr. Cook’s verses, viz., in the word xunon, for which this criti... ... which has since been as good as a life-an- nuity to the venerable knave’s literary fame. 321 Thomas de Quincey tion, that under any system of chrono... ...chmann’s Letters, p. 163,) with no bread, or eatable of any kind. Now, his critics, by general confession, ate their way, from ‘morn to dewy eve,’ thr...

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...ny writers. Among these we may 12 Bertrand Russell take as an example his Austrian successor Meinong.* Accord- ing to him there are three elements in... ... sensations does. Bodily sensations are ad- mitted by even the most severe critics of introspection, al- though, like images, they can only be observe... ...will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of “correctness.” The literary definition would substi...

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...ce liker seem’d To glass than water. Not so thick a veil In winter e’er hath Austrian Danube spread O’er his still course, nor Tanais far remote The D... ...avalcanti, the friend of our Poet, (see Hell, Canto X. 59.) had eclipsed the literary fame of Guido Guinicelli, of a noble family in Bologna, whom we ... ...uvenal had celebrated his contemporary Statius, Sat. vii. 82; though some critics imagine that there is a secret derision couched under his praise.... ...s found in Aeschylus, Supp. 356, and is there also scarce understood by the critics. Respect these wreaths, that crown your city’s poop. v. 99. The...

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... Conquerors...............................535 The United States to Old World Critics ....................................................535 The Calmi... ...ospital or library, Nor reminiscence of any deed of courage for America, Nor literary success nor intellect; nor book for the book shelf, But a few ca... ...r of the Netherlands! (you stock whence I myself have descended;) You sturdy Austrian! you Lombard! Hun! Bohemian! farmer of Styria! You neighbor of t...

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...picture, agitated him to the depths of his soul. He always attributed to his critics a more profound comprehension than he had himself, and always exp... ...fficult from the fact that, since he had finished his book, he had had no more literary work to do, such as had hitherto occupied the greater part of hi... ... that had occurred at his school. Facing him sat a middle aged officer in the Austrian military jacket of the Guards uniform. He was listening with a s...