Kenelm Chillingly, his adventures and opinions, by the author of 'The Caxtons'. |
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... charm of their sex . It had not done so in the instance of Cecilia Travers , because she was so woman- like that even the exercise of power could not make her manlike . There was in the depth of her nature such an instinct of sweet ...
... charm of their sex . It had not done so in the instance of Cecilia Travers , because she was so woman- like that even the exercise of power could not make her manlike . There was in the depth of her nature such an instinct of sweet ...
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... charm of her face is in an expression of serene happiness , that sort of happiness which seems as if it had never been inter- rupted by a sorrow , had never been troubled by a sin - that holy kind of happiness which belongs to innocence ...
... charm of her face is in an expression of serene happiness , that sort of happiness which seems as if it had never been inter- rupted by a sorrow , had never been troubled by a sin - that holy kind of happiness which belongs to innocence ...
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... he makes himself a Plural , and speaks not as ' I , ' but as ' We ' ? We are insensible to the charm of young ladies ; We are not bribed by suppers ; We , like the witches of Macbeth , have no name on earth ; We are KENELM CHILLINGLY . 47.
... he makes himself a Plural , and speaks not as ' I , ' but as ' We ' ? We are insensible to the charm of young ladies ; We are not bribed by suppers ; We , like the witches of Macbeth , have no name on earth ; We are KENELM CHILLINGLY . 47.
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... charm of his voice and face , and slid along the grass nearer to him . The minstrel continued : " While the child was talking to me I mechanically took the flower - chains from her hand , and not think- ing what I was about , gathered ...
... charm of his voice and face , and slid along the grass nearer to him . The minstrel continued : " While the child was talking to me I mechanically took the flower - chains from her hand , and not think- ing what I was about , gathered ...
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... charm that spell - bound Tom , and Kenelm was satisfied with brief remarks on his side tending to draw out the principal performer . The talk was drawn from outward things , from natural objects - objects that interest children , and ...
... charm that spell - bound Tom , and Kenelm was satisfied with brief remarks on his side tending to draw out the principal performer . The talk was drawn from outward things , from natural objects - objects that interest children , and ...
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Page 183 - Is it not strange that we mortals, placed amid perpetual agitation and tumult and strife, as if our natural element, conceive a sense of holiness in the images antagonistic to our real life; I mean in images of repose? I feel at the moment as if I suddenly were made better, now that heaven and earth have suddenly become yet more tranquil. I am now conscious of a purer and sweeter moral than either I or you drew from the insect you have sheltered. I must come to the poets to express it, — " ' The...
Page 353 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud : and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 354 - an innocent " ! — this a girl who had no mind to be formed! In that presence he could not be cynical ; could not speak of Nature as a mechanism, a lying humbug, as he had done to the man poet. He replied gravely, — " The Creator has gifted the whole universe with language, but few are the hearts that can interpret it. Happy those to whom it is no foreign tongue, acquired imperfectly with care and pain, but rather a native TOL. I. — 27 language, learned unconsciously from the lips of the great...