A Comtist Lover: And Other StoriesT. F. Unwin, 1886 - 263 páginas |
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Aimée animals ARMINIUS VAMBERY Arthur aspirations Austin Author Autumn-Christmas Season beautiful become better Century character Charles Whitehead charm chivalry cloth extra Comte Comte's COMTIST LOVER creed Crown 8vo Cyon death Delphine Demy 8vo Echetlus enthusiasm faith Fcap feel FISHER UNWIN future genius George Eliot gilt give Gladys Fane grief happiness heart hope human Illustrated immortality individual intellect interest JOHN ASHTON kind labour LAURENCE HUTTON Légion d'Honneur Léonce literary living London Madame de Staël Madame de Vernon man's marriage merely mind modern moral nature never noble nobler novel pain paper passion PATERNOSTER SQUARE pity Poet Positivism Positivist question race readers reason religion religious reverence Review romance SARAH TYTLER seems sense sorrow soul speak spirit story sweet sympathy tell tender thing thought torture true truth vivisection volume woman women words worship writes young
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Página 19 - I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine; All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medicine are mine, All light of art or nature; — to my song, Victory and praise in their own right belong.
Página 257 - Critical, in the best sense of the word. Unlike many treatises on the subject this is a sober and reverent investigation, and abounds in a careful and instructive exegesis of every passage bearing upon it."— Nonconformist.
Página 186 - GLORY of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea — Glory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong — Nay, but" she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be.
Página 78 - What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting ? CHAPTER LV.
Página 132 - His presence was. Then, craving leave, he spake Of life, which all can take but none can give, Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep, Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each, Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all Where pity is, for pity makes the world Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Página 261 - Contemporary Review, Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. By VERNON LEE. Demy 8vo., cloth, y5. 6d. " These studies show a wide range of knowledge of the subject, precise investigation, abundant power of illustration, and hearty enthusiasm. . . . The style of writing is cultivated, neatly adjusted, and markedly clever.
Página 7 - A very minute historical sketch of the treasury and other notes issued by the Government. . . . The book should be carefully studied by those who would understand the subject.
Página 192 - it is only a novel! " replies the young lady ; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. " It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda; " or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
Página 187 - I have lived, then, done and suffered, loved and hated, learnt and taught This — there is no reconciling wisdom with a world distraught, Goodness with triumphant evil, power with failure in the aim, If — (to my own sense, remember!
Página 4 - Most heartily do we recommend this little volume to the careful study, not only of those whose faith is not yet fixed and settled, but of those whose love for it and reliance on it grows with their growing years.