The Living Age, Volume 236Living Age Company, 1903 |
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Page 3
... kind of glorified Galt ; her mis- sion was to intensify , not to extend , the range of observation . She might quick- en the sense of comedy , and that hu- man sympathy which lies so near it ; she could not enlarge and nourish the ...
... kind of glorified Galt ; her mis- sion was to intensify , not to extend , the range of observation . She might quick- en the sense of comedy , and that hu- man sympathy which lies so near it ; she could not enlarge and nourish the ...
Page 6
... kind of puerility . In the art of holding attention by brilliant im- provisation , whether of incident or dia- logue , Dumas outdoes his master ; but even his best figures , with the single exception of D'Artagnan - even Athos , Aramis ...
... kind of puerility . In the art of holding attention by brilliant im- provisation , whether of incident or dia- logue , Dumas outdoes his master ; but even his best figures , with the single exception of D'Artagnan - even Athos , Aramis ...
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... kind of safety - valve for human silli- ness . It was , as we have said , no part of his purpose to be a disputant , and , moreover , his nature did not incline him to any analysis of what is perhaps the leading human passion , and cer ...
... kind of safety - valve for human silli- ness . It was , as we have said , no part of his purpose to be a disputant , and , moreover , his nature did not incline him to any analysis of what is perhaps the leading human passion , and cer ...
Page 13
... kind than in the other - Mrs . Clifford , for instance , and , though he probably does not think so , Sir A. Co- nan Doyle , whose little " Straggler of Waterloo , " is , in our opinion , worth all his novels . Mr. Kipling and Mr. Hew ...
... kind than in the other - Mrs . Clifford , for instance , and , though he probably does not think so , Sir A. Co- nan Doyle , whose little " Straggler of Waterloo , " is , in our opinion , worth all his novels . Mr. Kipling and Mr. Hew ...
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... job is not so simple . He knows the channels and the shoals of this Ashdown Forest of yours as I know my course to Seaford Bay . And lookee , mate , " he added , with a kind of challenge in his voice , " A Friend of Nelson . 25.
... job is not so simple . He knows the channels and the shoals of this Ashdown Forest of yours as I know my course to Seaford Bay . And lookee , mate , " he added , with a kind of challenge in his voice , " A Friend of Nelson . 25.
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