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... Appleton . New York : Office of Publishers ' Weekly , 1885 . G. P. Putnam's Sons . $ 5.00 . Part I , Authors and Titles ; II , Subjects , etc. Previous to the publication of the Ameri- can Catalogue trade bibliography was in a miserable ...
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... Appleton Morgan , Esq . , in the chair ; Mr. E. P. Vining presented a paper ( read by W. W. Nevin , Esq . ) on " Time in the Tragedy of Hamlet . " Mr. Vining argued that the duration of time necessarily covered by the incidents of that ...
... Appleton Morgan , Esq . , in the chair ; Mr. E. P. Vining presented a paper ( read by W. W. Nevin , Esq . ) on " Time in the Tragedy of Hamlet . " Mr. Vining argued that the duration of time necessarily covered by the incidents of that ...
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... Appleton & Co. have just ready Marl- borough , by Geo . Saintsbury , in the " English Worthies , " and a novel by Edna Lyall entitled Donovan , a Modern Englishman . - - Scribner & Welford have imported an edi- tion of Mr. Frank ...
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Page 87 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 186 - THE LIGHT THAT IS FELT. A tender child of summers three, Seeking her little bed at night, Paused on the dark stair timidly. "Oh, mother! Take my hand," said she, "And then the dark will all be light.
Page 261 - There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise ; He jumped into a bramble bush, And scratched out both his eyes : And when he saw his eyes were out, With all his might and main He jumped into another bush, And scratched them in again.
Page 132 - I came from India as a child, and our ship touched at an island on the way home, where my black servant took me a long walk over rocks and hills until we reached a garden where we saw a man walking. " That is he," said the black man ; "that is Bonaparte.
Page 119 - Read aloud any two or three passages in blank verse even from Shakspeare's earliest dramas, as Love's Labour's Lost, or Romeo and Juliet; and then read in the same way this speech, with especial attention to the metre; and if you do not feel the impossibility of the latter having been written by Shakspeare, all I dare suggest is, that you may have ears, — for so has another animal, — but an ear you cannot have, 'me judice'.
Page 85 - I had seen acting before, but never anything like this: never anything which astonished Hope and hushed Desire; which outstripped Impulse and paled Conception; which, instead of merely irritating imagination with the thought of what might be done, at the same time fevering the nerves because it was not done, disclosed power like a deep, swollen winter river thundering in cataract, and bearing the soul, like a leaf, on the steep and steely sweep of its descent.
Page 210 - The title of the book is derived from the fact that a body of hardy volunteers, under the leadership of Sevier, crossed the mountains, and by their timely arrival secured the defeat of the British army at King's Mountain. J OHN SEVIER AS A COMMONWEALTHBUILDER. A Sequel to "The Rear-Guard of the Revolution.
Page 226 - The Dean's daughters are perfectly real characters— the learned Cornelia especially ; — the little impulsive French heroine, who endures their cold hospitality and at last wins their affection, is thoroughly charming ; while throughout the book there runs a golden thread of pure brotherly and sisterly love, which pleasantly reminds us that the making and marring of marriage is not, after all, the sum total of real We."— Academy. " All the quiet humour we praised in ' Donovan ' is to be found...
Page 174 - Rossetti. - A SHADOW OF DANTE : being an Essay towards studying Himself, his World and his Pilgrimage.
Page 126 - By Fire and Sword : A Story of the Huguenots. By Thomas Archer. Adam Hepburn's Vow: A Tale of Kirk and Covenant. By Annie S. Swan. No. XIII.; or, The Story of the Lost Vestal A Tale of Early Christian Days. By Emma Marshall. "Golden Mottoes