The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.].: The innocents abroad, or, The new Pilgrim's progressHarper & Bros., 1899 |
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Pagina xvii
... eyes of many who do not think for themselves , Mark Twain is only the author of these genuine specimens of American humor . For when the public has once made up its mind about any man's work , it does not relish any attempt to force it ...
... eyes of many who do not think for themselves , Mark Twain is only the author of these genuine specimens of American humor . For when the public has once made up its mind about any man's work , it does not relish any attempt to force it ...
Pagina xviii
... eyes and set- ting down what he saw with abundant humor , of course , but also with profound respect for the eternal verities . George Eliot in one of her essays calls those who parody lofty themes " debasers of the moral cur- rency ...
... eyes and set- ting down what he saw with abundant humor , of course , but also with profound respect for the eternal verities . George Eliot in one of her essays calls those who parody lofty themes " debasers of the moral cur- rency ...
Pagina xxiii
... eyes of the public to see the solid merits of his other stories , in which his humor has fuller play and in which his natural gifts are more abundantly displayed . Of these other stories three are " real novels , Biographical Criticism ...
... eyes of the public to see the solid merits of his other stories , in which his humor has fuller play and in which his natural gifts are more abundantly displayed . Of these other stories three are " real novels , Biographical Criticism ...
Pagina xxviii
... eyes , " declared Mr. Howells ; and , from more points of view than one , Mark Twain seems to me to be the very embodiment of Ameri- canism . Self - educated in the hard school of life , he has gone on broadening his outlook as he has ...
... eyes , " declared Mr. Howells ; and , from more points of view than one , Mark Twain seems to me to be the very embodiment of Ameri- canism . Self - educated in the hard school of life , he has gone on broadening his outlook as he has ...
Pagina xxxvii
... eyes instead of the eyes of those who traveled in those countries before him . I make small pretence of showing any one how he ought to look at objects of interest be- yond the sea - other books do that , and therefore , even if I were ...
... eyes instead of the eyes of those who traveled in those countries before him . I make small pretence of showing any one how he ought to look at objects of interest be- yond the sea - other books do that , and therefore , even if I were ...
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Pagina 42 - Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works ; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
Pagina 42 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care. And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day. Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Pagina 42 - Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
Pagina 42 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Pagina 42 - And they went to bury her : but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
Pagina 42 - If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
Pagina 261 - THERE is a glorious City in the Sea. The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing ; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible ; and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream...
Pagina 42 - And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seaside for multitude.
Pagina 42 - And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
Pagina 42 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : At her feet he bowed, he fell : Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.