Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry, Volumen1J. B. Lippincott Company, 1914 - 391 páginas |
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... character in Scott's romance The Abbot . See GLENDENNING , EDWARD . Abdael , in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel , a character intended for General Monk , afterwards Duke of Albemarle , who was a loyal partisan of Charles II . Abdallah ...
... character in Scott's romance The Abbot . See GLENDENNING , EDWARD . Abdael , in Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel , a character intended for General Monk , afterwards Duke of Albemarle , who was a loyal partisan of Charles II . Abdallah ...
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... character . Adrastus of Helvetia was the name of one of the Crusaders . Adriana , in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors , the wife of Antipholus of Ephesus . Adriel , in Dryden's satirical poem Absalom and Achitophel , is intended for John ...
... character . Adrastus of Helvetia was the name of one of the Crusaders . Adriana , in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors , the wife of Antipholus of Ephesus . Adriel , in Dryden's satirical poem Absalom and Achitophel , is intended for John ...
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... character . Like Hamlet , too , his creator looked into his own heart to write . Alceste has much in com- mon with Molière himself . Other originals have been suggested , espe- cially the Duke de Montaussier , who in his native ...
... character . Like Hamlet , too , his creator looked into his own heart to write . Alceste has much in com- mon with Molière himself . Other originals have been suggested , espe- cially the Duke de Montaussier , who in his native ...
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... character of Amanda is interesting . especially in the momentary wavering and quick recovery of her virtue . This is ... characters in which Vanbrugh has poraries , we perceive the beginning of a reaction in public spirit , which ...
... character of Amanda is interesting . especially in the momentary wavering and quick recovery of her virtue . This is ... characters in which Vanbrugh has poraries , we perceive the beginning of a reaction in public spirit , which ...
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... character of this sort in the early Carlovingian romances , she was practically an invention of Bojardo , whom Ariosto accepted and involved in fresh adventures . Daughter of Galaphron , the Saracen king of Cathay , she was dispatched ...
... character of this sort in the early Carlovingian romances , she was practically an invention of Bojardo , whom Ariosto accepted and involved in fresh adventures . Daughter of Galaphron , the Saracen king of Cathay , she was dispatched ...
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Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry, Volumen1 William S. Walsh Vista completa - 1914 |
Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry, Volumen1 William S. Walsh Vista completa - 1914 |
Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry, Volumen1 William S. Walsh Vista completa - 1914 |
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Página 206 - Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
Página 14 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Página 174 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir...
Página 33 - For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!' But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please; An' Tommy ain'ta bloomin' fool — you bet that Tommy sees!
Página 368 - From that chamber and from that mansion I fled aghast. The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway. Suddenly there shot along the path a wild light, and I turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could have issued; for the vast house and its shadows were alone...
Página 108 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
Página 174 - ... the History of Little Goody Two Shoes, otherwise Mrs. Margery Two Shoes ; with the means by which she acquired learning and wisdom, and, in consequence thereof, her estate ; set forth at large for the benefit of those " Who, from a state of rags and care, And having shoes but half a pair, Their fortune and their fame should fix, And gallop in a coach and six.
Página 331 - The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
Página 85 - Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe: "Ah! who hath reft," quoth he, "my dearest pledge!
Página 276 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.