The National Review, Volume 19Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1864 |
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... 159 Paley's Hora Paulinæ . New edition . Law . 1861 . Christianity in the Cartoons referred to Artistic Treatment and Historic Fact . By William Watkiss Lloyd . London , 1863 . 87527 ᎪᏒᎢ , VII . - MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ PAGE .
... 159 Paley's Hora Paulinæ . New edition . Law . 1861 . Christianity in the Cartoons referred to Artistic Treatment and Historic Fact . By William Watkiss Lloyd . London , 1863 . 87527 ᎪᏒᎢ , VII . - MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ PAGE .
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... Madame de Sévigné . Baron de Walckenaer . VIII . THE FUNCTIONS OF CRITICISM AT THE PRESENT TIME . 230 IX . THE CRISIS OF FAITH . . 251 Meditations on the Essence of Christianity , and on the Religious Questions of the Day . By M. Guizot ...
... Madame de Sévigné . Baron de Walckenaer . VIII . THE FUNCTIONS OF CRITICISM AT THE PRESENT TIME . 230 IX . THE CRISIS OF FAITH . . 251 Meditations on the Essence of Christianity , and on the Religious Questions of the Day . By M. Guizot ...
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... Madame de Sévigné . Baron de Walckenaer . MADAME DE SÉVIGNE is perhaps the most perfect and beautiful fruit of French civilisation * at its highest point . If * Was vom Menschen überhaupt gilt , das gilt vom Inbegriffe und Urbilde der ...
... Madame de Sévigné . Baron de Walckenaer . MADAME DE SÉVIGNE is perhaps the most perfect and beautiful fruit of French civilisation * at its highest point . If * Was vom Menschen überhaupt gilt , das gilt vom Inbegriffe und Urbilde der ...
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... Madame de Sévigné is probably the best , the richest , the fullest and fairest , the most unique individual specimen . With the head of a man , and the heart of a woman , admirably clear - sighted , admirably well - judged , impetuous ...
... Madame de Sévigné is probably the best , the richest , the fullest and fairest , the most unique individual specimen . With the head of a man , and the heart of a woman , admirably clear - sighted , admirably well - judged , impetuous ...
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... Madame de Sévigné's genius seems in its ardour and bravery but the transformed and sublimised expression of many of her father and grandfather's qualities . " Il était joli , mon père , " she writes to her daughter , Madame de Grignan ...
... Madame de Sévigné's genius seems in its ardour and bravery but the transformed and sublimised expression of many of her father and grandfather's qualities . " Il était joli , mon père , " she writes to her daughter , Madame de Grignan ...
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Page 63 - And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: "'Tis clear...
Page 62 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing...
Page 64 - Swam across and lived to carry (As he, the manuscript he cherished) To Rat-land home his commentary: Which was, 'At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a...
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Page 66 - And, like fowls in a farmyard when barley is scattering, Out came the children running. All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls, And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
Page 42 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
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Page 64 - And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered; And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper...
Page 241 - I look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not property safe ? Is not every man able to say what he likes ? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security ? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.