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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...d under Cromwell, but afterwards conformed, and managed to come out of all political troubles as the proprietor of a respectable family estate. Y oung... ... a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with political economy and the keeping of saddle-horses: a man would naturally t... ... speaking, and seemed to observe her newly. “Young ladies don’t understand political economy, you know,” said Mr. Brooke, smiling towards Mr. Casaubon... ...ht lifted her above her an- noyance at being twitted with her ignorance of political economy, that never-explained science which was thrust as an exti... ...ay that you would like him to turn public man in that way—making a sort of political Cheap Jack of himself?” “He might be dissuaded, I should think. H... ...honored; for we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts en- tangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them. And now he was in dange... ...ements for tilling Thy garden rescued here and there from the wilderness.” Metaphors and precedents were not wanting; peculiar spiri- tual experiences...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...ject of the third epistle of the first, which treats of man in his social, political, and religious capacity. But this part the poet after- wards conc... ...he coveting her have occa- sioned in that society where (according to this political calcu- lator) nine in ten of all ages have their concubines! We h... ...er fancy strike, Figures ill pair’d, and similes unlike. She sees a mob of metaphors advance, Pleased with the madness of the mazy dance; How T ragedy... ... known to have had a son so exactly like him, in his poetical, theatrical, political, and moral capacities, that it could justly be said of him, ‘Stil... ..., and Law the stage gave o’er:’ A. Boyer, a voluminous compiler of annals, political collections, &c.— William Law, A.M., wrote with great zeal agains... ...without rules.’ He ended at last in the common sink of all such writers, a political newspaper, to which he was recom- mended by his friend Arnall, an...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ch composure. I am gen- erally glad enough to fall back again, after these political in- terludes, upon Burns, toddy, and the Highlands. 23 The Lette... ...uit enough to think that any end will justify an unjust law. Here ends the political sermon of your affectionate (and somewhat dogmatical) son, ROBERT... ...the American on poli- tics. It is odd how it irritates you to hear certain political statements made. He was excited, and he began suddenly to abuse o... ... on receipt, I thus acknowledge. I have already expressed myself as to the political as- pect. About Grahame, I feel happier; it does seem to have bee... ...n with pleasure I prefer him with all his folly, rot, sentiment, and mixed metaphors, to the whole modern school in France. It makes me laugh when it’... ...and much may be said against you. But in this weather, and O dear! in this political scene of degradation, much must be forgiven. I fear England is de...

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Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

... division of the county of Barsetshire, which, as all the world knows, is, politically speaking, as true blue a county as any in England. There have b... ...ision of Barsetshire. But this Western Division can boast none of the fine political at- tributes which grace its twin brother. It is decidedly Whig, ... ... — what woman ever understood the necessity or recognised the advantage of political honesty? But then she was neither dull nor pompous, and if she wa... ...that she had married him on the specula- tion that he would at once become politically important; and as yet Mr Smith had not quite fulfilled the prop... ...last crowned the earnest effort with which Harold Smith had carried on the political battle of his life for the last ten years. The late Lord Petty Ba... ... vexation, and nothing more!’—well pleased with which variety of Christian metaphors, Mrs Proudie walked on, still muttering, however, something about...

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...have known more about it. Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with ph... ...learning and intelligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shakespeare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and other... ...aver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its sym bols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched, through slides and dum...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...to the bargain, running in the face of it. If it had concerned either of the political parties, depend upon it, it would have appeared in the Gazette ... ... learning and in telligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shaks peare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and ot... ...rlaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its sym bols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched, through slides and d...

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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...n blubber senti ment, but McClintock spews it; other people can mishandle metaphors, but only McClintock knows how to make a busi ness of it. McClin... ...uation that may interrupt our happiness—like the poli tician who runs the political gantlet for office one day, and the next day, because the horizon...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...cretary of State under the Restoration, the Marquis, anx- ious to re-enter political life, set about preparing for his can- didature to the Chamber of... ... people came to these soirees at the chemist’ s, his scandal-mongering and political opinions having successfully alienated various respectable person... ...ry stick at a clod in front of him. And he at once began to con- sider the political part of the enterprise. He asked himself— “Where shall we meet? B... ... as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor o...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...ting out the need of it in his mocking fashion, he was not favourable to a political reform. Those who would make of him a Protestant altogether forge... ...aw up thy flowing sail, And acclamate a gentle hail With all thy art and metaphors, which must prevail. Jam prima Oceani pars est praeterita nostri.... ...ies and secessive places, that is, the convents and abbeys, separated from political conversa- tion, as the jakes and retreats of a house are. But if ... ...sier, had bent his best endeavours to make me profit in all perfection and political knowledge, and that my labour and study was fully correspondent t...

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...moothly working man, each in his way a lubricated item of the great social political administrative engrenage—claimed most of all Castledean himself, ... ... and absorbing exercise, in the light of which, might I so far multiply my metaphors, I should compare her to the frightened but clinging young mother...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... sermons were very sleepy performances, except for a tendency to jumble up metaphors, that kept the audience from the Folly just awake enough to watch... ... moderate gaiety, and no fastness. The ruling interests were religious and political questions, as befitted Fordham’s maiden ses- sion, the society wa...

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