The British Quarterly Review, Volume 33Henry Allon Hodder and Stoughton, 1861 - Christianity |
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Page 86
... France . There must be in fiction an element of unexpected- ness and of surprise to win popularity from the great nation , who will admit no littleness even in her cottages . Perfection of some sort is a sovereign necessity : real or ...
... France . There must be in fiction an element of unexpected- ness and of surprise to win popularity from the great nation , who will admit no littleness even in her cottages . Perfection of some sort is a sovereign necessity : real or ...
Page 87
... France ; but in proportion as our neighbours are artists and idealists , discontented with the narrowness of life , and capable of invention , it has tinged their literature and deformed their creation . The art which is indifferent to ...
... France ; but in proportion as our neighbours are artists and idealists , discontented with the narrowness of life , and capable of invention , it has tinged their literature and deformed their creation . The art which is indifferent to ...
Page 89
... France fitted her to reform the asphalt foregrounds and asphyxiated flowers with which boulevard loungers made suitable stage for their gamins and marquises . In much , Madame Sand greatly excels the two writers to whom we would ...
... France fitted her to reform the asphalt foregrounds and asphyxiated flowers with which boulevard loungers made suitable stage for their gamins and marquises . In much , Madame Sand greatly excels the two writers to whom we would ...
Page 99
... France en tout genre , c'est le sentiment et l'habitude du respect . ' We close Le Roi des Montagnes ' with the impression that murder and torture are excellent jokes , that successful trickery is the business of life , that crimes are ...
... France en tout genre , c'est le sentiment et l'habitude du respect . ' We close Le Roi des Montagnes ' with the impression that murder and torture are excellent jokes , that successful trickery is the business of life , that crimes are ...
Page 101
... France . M. Narni , who spends himself in efforts to please the grumbling Bitterlin , fails ludicrously , while M. Le Roy , the man about town , who is on his way to game at Baden , rather pleases the austere veteran of Austerlitz ...
... France . M. Narni , who spends himself in efforts to please the grumbling Bitterlin , fails ludicrously , while M. Le Roy , the man about town , who is on his way to game at Baden , rather pleases the austere veteran of Austerlitz ...
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