Littell's Living Age, Volume 164Living Age Company Incorporated, 1885 |
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Page 30
... told as Mrs. Gas- kell , for instance , might have told it in prose , would have been more pathetic , simply from the fact that the artifice would have been less felt . But now com- pare with this the noble opening stanza in " Laodamia ...
... told as Mrs. Gas- kell , for instance , might have told it in prose , would have been more pathetic , simply from the fact that the artifice would have been less felt . But now com- pare with this the noble opening stanza in " Laodamia ...
Page 38
... told Mrs. Sin- clair that he would never take her daugh- ter from her , but that Olive had well nigh promised in her mother's name that he should be accepted by her as a son . And Mrs. Sinclair put her hands on his shoul- ders and drew ...
... told Mrs. Sin- clair that he would never take her daugh- ter from her , but that Olive had well nigh promised in her mother's name that he should be accepted by her as a son . And Mrs. Sinclair put her hands on his shoul- ders and drew ...
Page 47
... told her old friend she did not fear death , " but the way to it ; " the last sufferings - sometimes protracted ; but " when once they are over , I do not question but to rise to a new and better life . " It was her last letter to Mr ...
... told her old friend she did not fear death , " but the way to it ; " the last sufferings - sometimes protracted ; but " when once they are over , I do not question but to rise to a new and better life . " It was her last letter to Mr ...
Page 72
... ing relatives of the object of his admira- tion . Some of the stories told by Mr. Yates of Thackeray are as good as any thing of the kind which can be expected . There are also , as we have seen , some 72 MEN OF LETTERS ON THEMSELVES .
... ing relatives of the object of his admira- tion . Some of the stories told by Mr. Yates of Thackeray are as good as any thing of the kind which can be expected . There are also , as we have seen , some 72 MEN OF LETTERS ON THEMSELVES .
Page 82
... told himself , and had therefore , of course , been perfectly prepared for it . What he had not been prepared for , how- ever , seemingly , was to be or even to appear to be cordial in the matter - some indefinable , some unconquerable ...
... told himself , and had therefore , of course , been perfectly prepared for it . What he had not been prepared for , how- ever , seemingly , was to be or even to appear to be cordial in the matter - some indefinable , some unconquerable ...
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