... THE INDIAN ALPS. + {GENERALLY speaking, the announcement that the author of a book, in consenting to publish, has yielded to the earnest solicitation of friends is a warning to throw the volume aside. But the Lady Pioneer who has come back from adventurous ...

... What, again, would a child learn by being told that Spenser was full of Christianized platonism ? On page 73 Mr. Brooke speaks of some of the love poems of the latter part of the sixteenth century as possessing a passionate reality, others a quaint ...

... to render the romance credible. If instead of this princess the painter had put the figure of the farmer who had paused to speak to his servant, we should feel at once that the ploughboy's elegance was far-fetched and inappropriate, and we are only saved ...

... classical languages; and with the otl r qualifications for the task roess f 1 s mastery of the Greek language it is superfluous to speak-in that ie is well known to have few living English rivals; but he possesses also in a high degree a quality which does not ...

... In the case of some statesmen these are so clearly called forth by the circum- stances in which they are placed that they speak for themselves. Others have lived when political speculation was inactive, and when no one dreamed of any change in the co ...

... out in a score of measures, with something of the music that wine may have made to his ear as it gurgled from the bottle. He speaks, now and then, of such troubles as vexatious lawsuits, and scolding wives, and tristes malheurs qui travaillent la France ...

... remarks, however, apply of course only or chiefly to monographs -upon more or less minute sections of jurisprudence-twigs, so to speak, rather than branches of the law. No writer would be likely to attempt so large and important a subject as, for instance ...

... moreover, Mr. Van Laun wished to speak of Da Ponte's libretto at all, he should have pointed out that he has very judiciously omitted the return supper given in all previous versions by the statue to Don Juan. Speaking of the scandal caused by Sganareile's ...

... the centuries whose annals are recorded in history. During the last five-and-twenty years war has never left Europe, not to speak of other quarters of the globe, and in that period we have witnessed four memorable struggles in -one or another of which all ...

... becomes a new factor in the question. I always considered it, wrote Schumann, to whom belonged, if to any one, the right of speaking with authority on the subject, as a symphony adapted to the piano, until partially convinced to the contrary by the original ...

... morning in February, and nothing more; then we are introduced concisely to a ghost (Marsyas), and to others in succession; they speak for themselves, and the spectator remains mostly in the background. The more incredible adventures, as that of Narcissus, are ...

... d'heure into manse life every week. A cloud of silence settles down over the household-its members must tread softly and speak low; for the minister is committing his sermon and may not be disturbed. And the committing of his sermon is to the unlucky ...