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... mind Of desultory man , studious of change , And pleased with novelty , may be indulged . " SEVENTH SERIES , VOLUME XXII . FROM THE BEGINNING , VOL . CCXL . JANUARY , FEBRUARY , MARCH , 1904 . BOSTON : THE LIVING AGE COMPANY . OF THE ...
... mind Of desultory man , studious of change , And pleased with novelty , may be indulged . " SEVENTH SERIES , VOLUME XXII . FROM THE BEGINNING , VOL . CCXL . JANUARY , FEBRUARY , MARCH , 1904 . BOSTON : THE LIVING AGE COMPANY . OF THE ...
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... mind of the boy . Mr. James is possibly too prone to mystify by scattering restless hints and practising elaborate steps in order at once to hide and express what is brutally simple . In " What Maisie Knew " there is something too much ...
... mind of the boy . Mr. James is possibly too prone to mystify by scattering restless hints and practising elaborate steps in order at once to hide and express what is brutally simple . In " What Maisie Knew " there is something too much ...
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... mind - a sum- mer garden at evening , with a desolate feminine shape sitting in its useless perfume and silence . Each of the larger novels published since 1895 , " The Other House , " " The Spoils of Poynton , " and " The Awkward Age ...
... mind - a sum- mer garden at evening , with a desolate feminine shape sitting in its useless perfume and silence . Each of the larger novels published since 1895 , " The Other House , " " The Spoils of Poynton , " and " The Awkward Age ...
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... mind of Kate is unknown . The second great difficulty of the author is to make Densher her accomplice , and to incline him to acquiesce in the false report that , while he is desperate for Kate , Kate is averse from him . On this ...
... mind of Kate is unknown . The second great difficulty of the author is to make Densher her accomplice , and to incline him to acquiesce in the false report that , while he is desperate for Kate , Kate is averse from him . On this ...
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... mind you , in an hour . " " As we were ? " " As we were . " But she turned to the door , and her headshake was now the end . " We shall never be again as we were ! " ( p . 576. ) reward ? Let us say that our sym- pathy is with her , as ...
... mind you , in an hour . " " As we were ? " " As we were . " But she turned to the door , and her headshake was now the end . " We shall never be again as we were ! " ( p . 576. ) reward ? Let us say that our sym- pathy is with her , as ...
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Page 161 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 362 - And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
Page 325 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
Page 362 - And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man: yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Page 184 - Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term: Thence shall I pass, approved A man, for aye removed From the developed brute; a God though in the germ.
Page 687 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Page 427 - Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want...
Page 360 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 315 - He is a man speaking to men — a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind...
Page 692 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.