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Strana 97 - All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of Highest Wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft He seems to hide His face, But unexpectedly returns, And to His faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously; whence Gaza mourns, And all that band them to resist His uncontrollable intent: His servants He, with new acquist Of true experience from this great event, With peace and consolation hath dismissed, And calm of mind, all passion spent.
Strana 164 - O Land ! For all the broken-hearted The mildest herald by our fate allotted, Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand To lead us with a gentle hand Into the land of the great Departed, Into the Silent Land ;
Strana 224 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Strana 224 - But among the writers who, in the point which we have noticed, have approached nearest to the manner of the great master, we have no hesitation in placing Jane Austen, a woman of whom England is justly proud. She has given us a multitude of characters, all, in a certain sense, common-place, all such as we meet every day. Yet they are all as perfectly discriminated from each other as if they were the most eccentric of human beings.
Strana 226 - TREVLYN HOLD. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD, Authoress of "The Channings," &c. VERNER'S PRIDE. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD, Authoress of "East Lynne," &c. "A first-rate novel in its breadth of outline and brilliancy of description. Its exciting events, its spirited scenes, its vivid details, all contribute to its triumph." — The Sun. WITHIN THE MAZE. By Mrs. HENRY WOOD, Authoress of " Verner's Pride,
Strana 26 - ... from human sorrow) which the innocent heart pours forth at its first actual discovery that sin is in the world. The young and pure are not apt to find out that miserable truth until it is brought home to them by the guiltiness of some trusted friend.
Strana 227 - Besides many others, the following Serial Stories have appeared in the pages of TEMPLE BAR .-— The New Magdalen. BY WILKIE COLLINS. Red as a Rose is She. BY Miss BROUGHTON. Lady Adelaide's Oath.
Strana 226 - Mr. Trollope amply bears out in the work the reputation he acquired by ' Barchester Towers.' We regard the tenderness and self-sacrifice of Linda as one of the most graceful and touching pictures of feminine heroism in the whole range of modern novels."— John, Bull.
Strana 225 - Pride and Prejudice/ by Jane Austen, is the perfect type of a novel of common life ; the story is so concisely and dramatically told, the language so simple, the shades of human character so clearly presented, and the operation of various motives so delicately traced, attest this gifted woman to have been the perfect mistress of her art.

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