The Living Age, Volume 272Living Age Company, 1912 |
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... Lesage's great book , though scarcely answering to the exact technical definition of a picaresque novel - the biography of a picaro or rogue - belongs , nevertheless , by its external form , to the picaresque type of fiction ; and Scott ...
... Lesage's great book , though scarcely answering to the exact technical definition of a picaresque novel - the biography of a picaro or rogue - belongs , nevertheless , by its external form , to the picaresque type of fiction ; and Scott ...
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... Lesage's masterpiece has lived so long , and if it lives to - day with such a fresh and abundant life , this constant appeal has been made in spite of its resemblance to the Spanish picaresque prototype . The application of the ...
... Lesage's masterpiece has lived so long , and if it lives to - day with such a fresh and abundant life , this constant appeal has been made in spite of its resemblance to the Spanish picaresque prototype . The application of the ...
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... Lesage has him- self written the precept of Horace on its title - page . " C'est l'école du monde que ' Gil Blas , ' " La Harpe continues ; and he remarks with singular felicity that Lesage in " Gil Blas " " has not fallen into that ...
... Lesage has him- self written the precept of Horace on its title - page . " C'est l'école du monde que ' Gil Blas , ' " La Harpe continues ; and he remarks with singular felicity that Lesage in " Gil Blas " " has not fallen into that ...
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... Lesage , on the other hand , hit on the happy idea of using the picaro type , the picaresque tradition in the novel , to facilitate his project . And what device , in fact , could be neater and more rapid ? Certainly not the in- vention ...
... Lesage , on the other hand , hit on the happy idea of using the picaro type , the picaresque tradition in the novel , to facilitate his project . And what device , in fact , could be neater and more rapid ? Certainly not the in- vention ...
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... Lesage , like St. Simon , sought to reflect the life of his time ; but he is greater than St. Simon be- cause of the larger general interest and significance of his literary form . Le- sage was a gentleman , serenely , gaily taking ...
... Lesage , like St. Simon , sought to reflect the life of his time ; but he is greater than St. Simon be- cause of the larger general interest and significance of his literary form . Le- sage was a gentleman , serenely , gaily taking ...
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Page 194 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed.
Page 477 - And she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Page 189 - He asked water, and she gave him milk; She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, And her right hand to the workman's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, She smote off his head, When she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Page 189 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 652 - Now was I come up in Spirit through the flaming sword, into the paradise of God. All things were new; and all the creation gave another smell unto me than before, beyond what words can utter.
Page 189 - I shall see him, but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 193 - Take the cloak from his face, and at first Let the corpse do its worst. How he lies in his rights of a man ! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance — both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. Ha, what avails death to erase His offence, my disgrace? I would we were boys as of old In the field, by the fold— His outrage, God's patience, man's scorn Were so easily...
Page 275 - ... own. The lady in question, at all events, with her slightly Michaelangelesque squareness, her eyes of other days, her full lips, her long neck, her recorded jewels, her brocaded and wasted reds, was a very great personage — only unaccompanied by a joy. And she was dead, dead, dead. Milly recognised her exactly in words that had nothing to do with her. " I shall never be better than this.
Page 189 - Curst be the heart that thought the thought, And curst the hand that fired the shot, When in my arms burd Helen dropt, And died to succour me ! O think na ye my heart was sair When my Love dropt down and spak nae mair ! There did she swoon wi' meikle care On fair Kirconnell lea.
Page 194 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.