Thackeray and Modern Fiction. Cut from London Quarterly Review, Jul. 1864. [108].

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Page 384 - At the usual evening hour the chapel bell began to toll, and Thomas Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Adsum !
Page 399 - DEAD flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour : so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Page 397 - And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Page 390 - I think of these past writers and of one who lives amongst us now, and am grateful for the innocent laughter and the sweet and unsullied page which the author of " David Copperfield
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Page 384 - Newcome's hands outside the bed feebly beat time. And just as the last bell struck, a peculiar sweet smile shone over his face, and he lifted up his head a little, and quickly said, " Adsum! " and fell back. It was the word we used at school, when names were called; and lo, he, whose heart was as that of a little child, had answered to his name, and stood in the presence of The Master.
Page 390 - And with this pretty dance and chorus, the volume artfully concludes. Even here one can't give the whole description. There is not a page in Sterne's writing but has something that were better away, a latent corruption — a hint, as of an impure presence.
Page 372 - The SENSES and the INTELLECT. By ALEXANDER BAIN, MA Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen. Second Edition. Svo. price 15s. The Emotions and the Will, by the same Author ; completing a Systematic Exposition of the Human Mind.
Page 372 - Lectures on the Science of Language. Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in April, May, and June, 1861. By Max Muller, MA, Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford ; Corresponding Member of the Imperial Institute of France.
Page 6 - For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man ; but holy men of God fpake as they were moved by the Holy Ghoft.

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