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Nor does Dryden's lewdness leave such a reek in the mind as the filthy cynicism of Swift, who delighted to uncover the nakedness of our common mother. It is pleasant to follow Dryden into the more congenial region of heroic plays, though here also we find him making a false start.
La Rochefoucauld persuaded Miossens, who was one of his friends, that, after all, if he should overcome the resistance of Madame de Longueville, it would only be a victory flattering to his vanity, whilst that he, La Rochefoucauld, would be able to turn it to a very good account. This was certainly a very convincing and heroic reason for falling in love!
Thus at last by no direct exertion of my own, but by turn after turn of things to which I blindly gave my little help the mystery of my life was solved. Many things yet remained to be fetched up to focus and seen round; but the point of points was settled. Of all concerned, my father alone stood blameless and heroic.
These heroic deeds demand a beautiful sacrifice, which seemed to be lacking, and I felt a certain disappointment. I suddenly asked: "Has Madame de Fleurel any children?" "Yes, one girl and two boys. It is for them that I am bringing these toys. She and her husband are very kind to me." The train was going up the incline to Saint-Germain.
The provinces in which the heroic events related in the foregoing chapters occurred, now partake of the fortunes and sentiments and character of a vast country. They live together with Canada, they flourish with her, and if they are ever called upon to oppose a mightier foe than Red men and Rebels, they will not be found unequal to the occasion.
I am certain that my friend's noble art, so full of passion and heroic beauty, is the victory of a man who in poverty and sickness created from the delight of expression, and in the contemplation that is born of the minute and delicate arrangement of images, happiness, and health of mind.
But we stopped skipping at once, and took to running as hard as we could. We both ran through some soft reedy ground, where the brute overtook us. I glanced over my shoulder and saw him knock Quin into the rushes and set his enormous foot on him " "Oh! was he killed?" exclaimed Junkie with a look of consternation at the now heroic Quin!
She had known of Fluella's arrival, her perilous passage over the river, of the report she then made to the hunter of her discoveries, of her bringing back the wounded Claud in safety, of the dastardly attempt of the prisoner to take that heroic girl's life, of his sentence, and, finally, of his departure for prison, amidst the execrations of a justly indignant people.
He is one whose poetic work does not consist in illustrating these received opinions, or in finding some novel and fine expression for them. He is observing nature, and undertaking to report it, as it is, not as it should be according to these preconceptions, or according to the established poetic notions of the heroic requisitions.
She had been dead twenty years, as a matter of fact and record, and to the last of her life sacredly preserved the treasures and traditions of her family, a family bound up as it is quite unnecessary to explain to any one in good society with all that is most venerable and heroic in the history of the Republic.
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