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There were some changes here; and the divisions were abolished when the whole book in 1844 entered the /Comedie/. One of the greatest mistakes which, in my humble judgment, the organizers of the /edition definitive/ have made, is their adoption of Balzac's never executed separation of the pair and deletion of the excellent joint-title /Les Rivalites/. George Saintsbury
He was surrounded and followed by many imitators, and it is well to remember Dryden as the greatest of them all. His satires were so powerful, too, that the people against whom they were directed felt them keenly, and no wonder. "There are passages in Dryden's satires in which every couplet has not only the force but the sound of a slap in the face," says a recent writer.* *Saintsbury.
Pasmer would have been willing to take him from others, but if he were so anomalous as to have no one to be taken from, of course it lessened his value as a trophy. These things went in and out of her mind, with a final resolution to get a full explanation from Mrs. Saintsbury, while she stood and smiled her winning assent up into the young man's handsome face. Mrs.
See also, as suggestive references, Pasquale Villari, The Life and Times of Machiavelli, 2 vols. in i ; A. A. Tilley, The Literature of the French Renaissance, 2 vols. ; George Saintsbury, A History of Elizabethan Literature ; and Sir Sidney Lee, Life of Shakespeare, new rev. ed. .
Saintsbury to her daughter: "Can you make out Mr. Mavering among them, Alice?" "No. Hush, mamma!" pleaded the girl.
They called each other by their girl names, as is rather the custom in Boston with ladies who are in the same set, whether they are great friends or not. In the more changeful society of Cambridge, where so many new people are constantly coming and going in connection with the college, it is not so much the custom; but Mrs. Saintsbury was Boston born, as well as Mrs.
Comus is a species of dramatic composition known as a Masque, and it is the greatest of its class. It far surpassess any work of a similar kind by Ben Jonson, that prolific writer of Masques. Some critics, like Taine and Saintsbury, consider Comus the finest of Milton's productions. Its 1023 lines can soon be read; and there are few poems of equal length that will better repay careful reading.
Saintsbury used to think she had got me down pretty fine," he suggested. "Yes!" said Mrs. Pasmer, with an indifference which they both knew she did not feel. "Yes. She used to accuse me of preferring to tack, even in a fair wind." He looked inquiringly at Mrs. Pasmer; and she said, "How ridiculous!" "Yes, it was. Well, I suppose I am rather circuitous about some things." "Oh, not at all!"
Poems, Aldine edition; Selections, in Golden Treasury. Life, by Hadden. Hazlitt. Texts: Works, edited by Henley, 12 vols. Essays, by Saintsbury; by L. Stephen. Leigh Hunt. Essays, by Macaulay; by Saintsbury; by Hazlitt. See also Mrs. Give some reasons for the influence of the French Revolution on English literature, and illustrate from poems or essays which you have read.
Then seeing that her husband was not shaken by her threat from his long-confirmed subjection, she added: "It isn't an ideal affair, but I think it will be a very good thing for Alice. He is not what I expected, but he is thoroughly nice, and I should think his family was nice. I've been talking with Mr. Munt about them to-day, and he confirms all that Etta Saintsbury said.
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