The History of a ManGeorge Gilfillan A. Hall, Virtue & Company, 1856 - 357 pagina's |
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... produced and prolonged . There were , too , occasional bursts of fervid pathos , or of holy indignation , disturbing and elevating the surface of the stream of his speech ; and , as I have observed in all earnest speakers , he never ...
... produced and prolonged . There were , too , occasional bursts of fervid pathos , or of holy indignation , disturbing and elevating the surface of the stream of his speech ; and , as I have observed in all earnest speakers , he never ...
Pagina 36
... producing them , and that he regretted that after his first success he had not gone abroad . As he spoke of the aris ... produced , and Burns ' mood was changed accordingly . He sang ; he extemporized verses ; he cracked jests thick as ...
... producing them , and that he regretted that after his first success he had not gone abroad . As he spoke of the aris ... produced , and Burns ' mood was changed accordingly . He sang ; he extemporized verses ; he cracked jests thick as ...
Pagina 40
... produce emotions compounded in equal parts of sadness and of sublimity , of a feeling of the lonely and a feeling of the lofty . Hence the peculiarly gloomy character of the Highland temperament , the Highland music , and the Highland ...
... produce emotions compounded in equal parts of sadness and of sublimity , of a feeling of the lonely and a feeling of the lofty . Hence the peculiarly gloomy character of the Highland temperament , the Highland music , and the Highland ...
Pagina 52
... produced a general laugh . I , however , found Walker very kind , and ere the session closed loved him tenderly , although I was quite unable to read his poem through . I had in this class a great disadvantage 52 THE HISTORY OF A MAN .
... produced a general laugh . I , however , found Walker very kind , and ere the session closed loved him tenderly , although I was quite unable to read his poem through . I had in this class a great disadvantage 52 THE HISTORY OF A MAN .
Pagina 61
... produced by some of his better passages . When he said , for instance , that he was " far from wishing to damp the spirit of the boy - poet , " a hundred young ingenuous faces instantaneously sparkled up as if in a gleam of sudden ...
... produced by some of his better passages . When he said , for instance , that he was " far from wishing to damp the spirit of the boy - poet , " a hundred young ingenuous faces instantaneously sparkled up as if in a gleam of sudden ...
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