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... great. We have usually the stimulus of danger either from beasts or men. Our sympathies are drawn out towards our humble, hardy companions by a community of interests and perils, which make us all friends. Nothing but the most pitiable puerility would ...
... makiig as if they would dance, there is absolutely no dancing, because the spinal column in each figure remains immovable. Thomas Stotbard understood this well, and when he put his nymphs in motion they had life, and lightness, and rhythmic swing. As an ...
... historical value, it is much to be feared that the serious will regard it with a good-natured contempt. C. B. THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. The Works of Thomas Love Peacock. With a Preface by the Right Hon. Lord Houghton; a Biographical Notice by his Grand- daughter ...
... adjusted to the importance of the study, the merit of the scholar, and the credit of the nation. I i i I i THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. Thze Wrorls of Thomas Love Peacock. With a Preface by the Right Hon. Lord Houghton; a Biographical Notice by his Grand- daughter ...
... success. But on closer examination, we see after all that Heathcote's masterful behaviour and obstinate pursuit of his own hardy in- stincts would have ended in utter failure but for an accident to which his robust energies in no way con- tributed. Medlicott's ...
... country folk So accurate and sympathetic, except perhaps di'r. Hardy's ' Under the Greenwood Tree,' and the author's insight is more searching, and his sympathy more intimate even than MN[r. Hardy's. It is Dutch painting applied to manner and cha- racter. ...
... Wright, Thomas.-The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon. Third Edition. (8vo, pp. 562.) Tribner. NOTES ON JHE MAGAZINES. The Cornlsill Magazine contains the opening chapters of a new tale by the author of Far from the Madding Crowd ?? Mr. Thomas Hardy. The ...
... is that of Gunnlang the Wormtongue, and Raven the Skald. Gunnlaug is a strong, young poet, red-haired, goodly, agile, and hardy, as quick with a sword as with a stanza, and so shrewd of his tongue that all men are afraid to come under his satire. He falls ...
... M'Glashan and Co. 24s. Cusack, M. F.-A History of the City and County of Cork. (Demy svo,pPP 580) Dublin: MIGlashan and Gill. U6s. Hardy, Sir T. Duffus.-Hegistrum Palatinum Dunelmense. measter of the Holls Series. Vol.Ill. (Deray Ovo, pp. 689.) Longmans. 10s. ...
... 24.) F. Warne and Co. 5s. ]Kronheim.-Ault Lonis's eomeo Favonirites. (Illastrations, pp. 24.) F. Warne and Co. 3s. Laslett, Thomas.-Tiniber and Timber Trees. (Crown Svo, pp.352.) Macmillan and Co. Ss. 6d. Little Folks Library.-The National Natural History ...
... very stimulating and rousing while it lasted. The advanced political reformers of the time, Gerrald, Horre Tooke, Holcroft, Hardy, and others, who were suspected of having caught the infection of the French Revolution, and tried, some for sedition, some ...
... delicate the music, the greater is the risk of a false note's making itself heard. The excellence of Mr. Hardy's ' Ethelberta 'is of a different kind. Mr. Hardy does not keep so close to nature as Mr. Black. He calls his novel a comedy in chapters, and we ought ...