A Change of AirH. Holt, 1894 - 248 sivua In his speech at the annual banquet of the Royal Academy in 1894, among many other good things, Mr. Andrew Lang said: "The thrifty plan of giving us sermons, politics, fiction, all in one stodgy sandwich, produces no permanent literature, produces but temporary 'tracts for the times.' Fortunately we have among us many novelists-young ones, luckily-who are true to the primitive and eternal, the Fijian canons of fiction. We have Oriental romance from the author of 'Plain Tales from the Hills.' We have the humor and tenderness-certainly not Fijian, I admit-which produces that masterpiece 'A Window in Thrums'; we have the adventurous fancy that gives us 'A Gentleman of France, ' 'The Master of Ballantrae, ' 'Micah Clarke, ' 'The Raiders, ' 'The Prisoner of Zenda.'" The last of these books was by Anthony Hope Hawkins, whom Mr. Lang thus classed among potential immortals. This romance has made him within the last three months fairly famous. Walter Besant, too, has stamped it with his high approval, and the English and American press have been unusually unanimous in their praise. |
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Sivu 160 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Sivu vii - We have the humor and tenderness — certainly not Fijian I admit — which produced the masterpiece, " A Window in Thrums." We have the adventurous fancy that gives us "A Gentleman of France," " The Master of Ballantrae," " Micah Clarke," " The Raiders," " The Prisoner of Zenda," and the truly primeval or troglodyte imagination which, as we read of a fight between a knob-nosed Kaffir dwarf and a sacred crocodile, brings us in touch with the first hearers of Heracles's or Beowulf's or Grettir's deeds,...
Sivu vii - The thrifty plan of giving us sermons, politics, fiction, all in one stodgy sandwich, produces no permanent literature, produces but temporary ' tracts for the times.' Fortunately we have among us many novelists — young ones, luckily — who are true to the primitive and eternal, the Fijian canons of fiction. We have Oriental romance from the author of
Sivu 29 - ... day to night, These, if God's hand smite not, how shall man's not smite?' So from hearts by horror withered as by fire Surge the strains of unappeasable desire; Sounds that bid the darkness lighten, lit for death; Bid the lips whose breath was doom yield up their breath; Down the way of Czars, awhile in vain deferred, Bid the Second Alexander light the Third. How for shame shall men rebuke them? how may we Blame, whose fathers died, and slew, to leave us free? We, though all the world cry out...
Sivu 29 - ... recoils heart-stricken : horror worse than hell Darkens earth and sickens heaven ; life knows the spell, Shudders, quails, and sinks — or, filled with fierier breath, Rises red in arms devised of darkling death. Pity mad with passion, anguish mad with shame, Call aloud on justice by her darker name ; Love grows hate for love's sake; life takes death for guide. Night hath none but one red star — Tyrannicide.
Sivu x - Germany; in both intrigues and heroism are conspicuous, though in the latter the author did not adopt the old device of giving his hero some bad qualities to make him human. " Half a Hero " contains much firm, crisp character-drawing, and a strong love interest, but has the slight taint of the " purpose novel," already noted in Father Stafford ; in this case, the discussion being politics, especially the " labor
Sivu 208 - ... outstanding, remarkable"; as "Mrs Smith's evening gardenparty was rather unique and very charming." Verbal, ie expressed in words either spoken or written, is erroneously employed for oral, as if equal to
Sivu 216 - ... hauyinge. 1695-6 Vanbrugh, Relapse (Mermaid) Preface 59, whose friendship ... is worth the having. | Idem v, iv, a woman's heart is scarcely worth the having. \ 1848 Dickens, Dombey & Son (London 1887) 4, a something which was well worth the having. \ 1843 Ant. Hope, A Change of Air (Tauchn.) 239, a feeling that, not vulgar in itself, seemed to become vulgar in the telling. \ 1895 Kipling, Jungle Bk. (II) 22, the tale has not lost fat in the telling. \ 1898 Idem, The Day's Work (Tauchn.) 23,...
Sivu 139 - The short hush of very early morning had fallen on the streets ; he met no one, and the moon shone placidly down on the solitary figure of the maddened man, wrestling with his unconquerable rage. He could not stem it ; yielding to its impulse, with quivering voice and face working with passion, he stretched his clenched fist to the sky and cried : " By God, he shall pay for it 1 " CHAPTER XVI. "Ho flfcore -Rings.
Sivu 87 - Apollo." 29. Hence the advantage, for a man who does not dislike the " digito monstrari et dicier ' hie est '," of dwelling in a small village. 30. He might wax fat and kick, like Jeroboam. 31. These latter I feel inclined to follow Polonius' advice about and " buckle to my heart with bands of steel.