The National Review, Volume 11Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1860 |
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... less amusing , but it brings them to a lower level . We see that , in order to produce an effect , he is satisfied to deal out a very hackneyed and exaggerated kind of wit to his minor characters . These jokes in a French novel are ...
... less amusing , but it brings them to a lower level . We see that , in order to produce an effect , he is satisfied to deal out a very hackneyed and exaggerated kind of wit to his minor characters . These jokes in a French novel are ...
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... less fully . But vague opinions on politics , however neatly put , are very worthless things ; it is only when a novelist works as hard as ordinary dry politicians work that his book is instructive and valuable . Brilliancy of style and ...
... less fully . But vague opinions on politics , however neatly put , are very worthless things ; it is only when a novelist works as hard as ordinary dry politicians work that his book is instructive and valuable . Brilliancy of style and ...
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... less than natural theology , to be under no slight ob- ligation . Next in our survey we come to Aristotle , the greatest name in natural history amongst the ancients , as in well - nigh every other department of human thought . His ...
... less than natural theology , to be under no slight ob- ligation . Next in our survey we come to Aristotle , the greatest name in natural history amongst the ancients , as in well - nigh every other department of human thought . His ...
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... less than a month subdued the whole country . Still Mantua was not relieved , the pass of Susa was once more in the hands of the enemy , and Richelieu felt that the campaign had failed in its real object . The queens loudly demanded ...
... less than a month subdued the whole country . Still Mantua was not relieved , the pass of Susa was once more in the hands of the enemy , and Richelieu felt that the campaign had failed in its real object . The queens loudly demanded ...
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... less and less , as time advanced , and thought exercised itself on the problem to be solved . But although , in certain departments , a gradual , 70 The Devils of Loudun . THE DEVILS OF LOUDUN Histoire du Merveilleux dans les temps ...
... less and less , as time advanced , and thought exercised itself on the problem to be solved . But although , in certain departments , a gradual , 70 The Devils of Loudun . THE DEVILS OF LOUDUN Histoire du Merveilleux dans les temps ...
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Page 452 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Page 511 - THE GLACIERS OF THE ALPS : being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents. An Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related.
Page 459 - They have the pale tint of flowers that blossomed in too retired a shade, — the coolness of a meditative habit, which diffuses itself through the feeling and observation of every sketch. Instead of passion there is sentiment; and, even in what purport to be pictures of actual life, we have allegory, not always so warmly dressed in its habiliments of flesh and blood as to be taken into the reader's mind without a shiver.
Page 451 - It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to attempt to fling myself back into another age; or to insist on creating the semblance of a world out of airy matter, when, at every moment, the impalpable beauty of my soap-bubble was broken by the rude contact of some actual circumstance.
Page 463 - Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions.
Page 282 - He would have made a great epic poet, if indeed he has not abundantly shown himself to be one ; for his Homer is not so properly a translation as the stories of Achilles and Ulysses re-written.
Page 451 - ... the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek resolutely the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant. The fault was mine. The page of life that was spread out before me was so dull and commonplace only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. A better book than I shall ever write was there...
Page 200 - But good society, floated on gossamer wings of light irony, is of very expensive production; requiring nothing less than a wide and arduous national life condensed in unfragrant deafening factories, cramping itself in mines, sweating at furnaces, grinding, hammering, weaving under more or less oppression of carbonic acid, or else, spread over sheepwalks, and scattered in lonely houses and huts on the clayey or chalky corn-lands, where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national life...
Page 512 - Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World. With narrative Illustrations, by ROBERT DALE OWEN. Post 8vo, Js. 6d. Spiritualism. — Debatable Land between this World and the Next.
Page 126 - In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind...