A School of LifeTicknor and Fields, 1855 - 266 páginas |
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Página 256 - WHO can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 256 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Página 9 - Hawthorne, deserving a place second to none in that band of humorists, whose beautiful depth of cheerful feeling is the very poetry of mirth. In ease, grace, delicate sharpness of satire, in a felicity of touch which often surpasses the felicity of Addison, in a subtlety of insight which often reaches farther than the subtlety of Steele, — the humor of Hawthorne presents traits so fine as to be almost too excellent for popularity, as, to every one who has attempted their criticism, they are too...
Página 245 - O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end, And so thro' those dark gates across the wild That no man knows. Indeed I love thee : come, Yield thyself up : my hopes and thine are one : Accomplish thon my manhood and thyself ; Lay thy sweet hands in mine and trust to me.
Página 2 - CONTENTS : The Affliction of Childhood — Dream Echoes on these Infant Experiences — Dream Echoes Fifty Years Later — Introduction to the World of Strife — Infant Literature — The Female Infidel — I am Introduced to the Warfare of a Public School — I Enter the World — The Nation of London — Dublin — First Rebellion in Ireland — French Invasion of Ireland, and Second Rebellion — Travelling — My Brother — Premature Manhood.
Página 9 - Addison, in a subtlety of insight which often reaches farther than the subtlety of Steele, — the humor of Hawthorne presents traits so fine as to be almost too excellent for popularity, as, to every one who has attempted their criticism, they are too refined for statement. The brilliant atoms flit, hover, and glance before our minds, but the subtle sources of their ethereal light lie beyond our analysis, — "And no speed of ours avails To hunt upon their shining trails.
Página 14 - HENRY GILES. Lectures and Essays. CONTENTS. — Falstaff, Crabbe, Moral Philosophy of Byron's Life, Moral Spirit of Byron's Genius, Ebenezer Elliott, Oliver Goldsmith, Spirit of Irish History, Ireland and the Irish, The Worth of Liberty, True Manhood, The Pulpit, Patriotism, Economies, Music, The Young Musician, A Day in Springfield, Chatterton, Carlyle, Savage, and Dermody. 2 vols.
Página 11 - Portrait of the author. 2 vols. 16mo. $1.50, cloth 41.75, gilt $2.50. There are few living poets who can be compared with Tennyson, in those peculiar, distinctive qualities, which raise the true poet to that quick apprehension of spiritual beauty, which furnishes him with perpetual inspiration, and to the glad world an overflowing son".
Página 13 - Since Tennyson, no poet has come before the public with the same promise as the author of this volume There are many lines and sentences in these poems which must become familiar on the lips of lovers of poetry.' — Literary Gazelle. ' It is to the earlier works of Keats and Shelley alone that we can look for a counterpart in richness of fancy and force of expression....
Página 5 - One of the most pleasing characteristics of this writer's works is their intense humanity. A man's heart beats in his every line. His writings all " Take a sober colour from the eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.