The Bookman, Volume 29Dodd, Mead and Company, 1909 - Book collecting |
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Page 599 - The different moods of sorrow as in a drama are dramatically given, and my conviction that fear, doubts, and suffering will find answer and relief only through Faith in a God of Love. ' I ' is not always the author speaking of himself, but the voice of the human race speaking thro
Page 311 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise!
Page 101 - THIS book for college classes presents a series of ten selected essays, which are intended to trace the development of English criticism in the nineteenth century. The essays cover a definite period, and exhibit the individuality of each author's method of criticism.
Page 203 - Les abeilles pillotent deçà delà les fleurs; mais elles en font après le miel, qui est tout leur...
Page 202 - Invention is one of the great marks of genius; but if we consult experience, we shall find that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent; as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.
Page 202 - ... stolen word for word from the mouth of a Heathen woman praying to a Heathen God...
Page 344 - People say I know New York well. Just change Twenty-Third Street in one of my New York stories to Main Street, rub out the Flat-iron Building and put in the Town Hall.
Page 12 - I have ever read of in books. Don't think that I am drawing upon my imagination. The man is alive and constantly under my gaze. In fact he is my own husband.