The Masters of Victorian Literature, 1837-1897J. Thin, 1897 - 494 páginas |
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... father's obtain- ing a situation in the Chatham dockyard . He was a feeble child , and at an age when other boys were at their sports , was engaged , as he tells us , in devouring Fielding and Smollett , Goldsmith and Defoe . The vivid ...
... father's obtain- ing a situation in the Chatham dockyard . He was a feeble child , and at an age when other boys were at their sports , was engaged , as he tells us , in devouring Fielding and Smollett , Goldsmith and Defoe . The vivid ...
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... father's example , he soon aban- doned the law to become a Reporter for the Press . At this work he was soon exceedingly expert , and in his nineteenth year , we find him engaged as Parlia- mentary Reporter to the True Sun. That even ...
... father's example , he soon aban- doned the law to become a Reporter for the Press . At this work he was soon exceedingly expert , and in his nineteenth year , we find him engaged as Parlia- mentary Reporter to the True Sun. That even ...
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... into that dim sanctuary a larger share of the warm English heart . William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1811-1863 ) .— This writer , so often spoken of as the rival of Dickens , was born at Calcutta in 1811 , his father being Charles Dickens 23.
... into that dim sanctuary a larger share of the warm English heart . William Makepeace Thackeray ( 1811-1863 ) .— This writer , so often spoken of as the rival of Dickens , was born at Calcutta in 1811 , his father being Charles Dickens 23.
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... father he had inherited a fortune of £ 10,000 , but this appears to have been quickly lost in unfortunate speculations , or squandered in the careless , generous Bohemianism of his life at this time . This , how- ever , is scarcely to ...
... father he had inherited a fortune of £ 10,000 , but this appears to have been quickly lost in unfortunate speculations , or squandered in the careless , generous Bohemianism of his life at this time . This , how- ever , is scarcely to ...
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... father , and many others , whose humours and eccentricities give us infinite amusement , and whose portraits stand out in a wonderful vividness and reality . Yet , on the whole , Thackeray rather lost ground with Pendennis . That ...
... father , and many others , whose humours and eccentricities give us infinite amusement , and whose portraits stand out in a wonderful vividness and reality . Yet , on the whole , Thackeray rather lost ground with Pendennis . That ...
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Página 252 - If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day.
Página 231 - Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music out of sight.
Página 352 - I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. Up vistaed hopes I sped; And shot, precipitated, Adown titanic glooms of chasmed fears, From those strong Feet that followed, followed after. But with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat—and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet— "All...
Página 286 - Listen! You hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.
Página 269 - One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
Página 250 - On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere: 'The sequel of to-day unsolders all The goodliest fellowship of famous knights Whereof this world holds record. Such a sleep They sleep - the men I loved. I think that we Shall never more, at any future time, Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds, Walking about the gardens and the halls Of Camelot, as in the days that were. I perish by this people which I made, Tho...
Página 285 - THE sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits ; — on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Página 237 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Página 286 - The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night- wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
Página 251 - And to the barge they came. There those three Queens Put forth their hands, and took the King, and wept. But she, that rose the tallest of them all And fairest, laid his head upon her lap, And loosed the...