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If we accept as our definition of an Epic:—(a) A long poem, (b) of an interest not less than national[1], describing (c) in noble language (d) a series of naturally and organically connected actions (e) of heroic actors, we shall find that, while we must deny the name to some so-called epics[2], we have to thank the spirit,...
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Category： Author：novel
I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary. Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which...
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Category： Author：novel
Sure I'm a Nilly, and I've died seven times, always in the blackness of the outer reaches, and I'm not alone, although there aren't very many of us, never were. It made sense. Interstellar was new and they wanted him on the ship because he was a trained observer. They wanted facts, not gibberish. But to ask a man to give up two ...
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Category： Author：novel
The most cruel and ignominious punishment man can inflict upon his fellow men, is still enforced in the English Naval Service; though many indignantly deny it, and stigmatize this story as \"a libel on the British Navy.\" Unfortunately for \"Blue Jackets\" this is not so, and the novel is founded on facts, as I have been in the service...
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Category： Author：novel
\"It\'s an infernal shame!\" \"I call it common sense!\" \"Call it what you please, Malet. I deny your right to keep back my money.\"
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Category： Author：瓦尔特.司各特 Sir Walter Scott
We have seldom found Sydney Smith giving higher praise, and nobody can deny the justice of the censure with which it is qualified. Scott himself explains, in his Introduction, how, in his quest of novelty, he invaded modern life, and the domain of Miss Austen. Unhappily he proved by example the truth of his own opinion that he could do...
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Category： Author：Edward Bulwer-Lytton
One of the peculiarities of Bulwer was his passion for occult studies. They had a charm for him early in life, and he pursued them with the earnestness which characterised his pursuit of other studies. He became absorbed in wizard lore; he equipped himself with magical implements,— with rods for transmitting influence, and crystal ball...
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Category： Author：Harriet A. Adams
"I am not at all surprised at this," said Miss Evans, after the statement had been made, "for well I know the dark surmisings that the dwellers in this little village have worked up into imaginary evils. Sages would no doubt assert that all rumors have some degree of truth, however slight, for a foundation. This may be true; at least I...
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Category： Author：D. H. Lawrence
No one would deny that the maternal love great, but a mother's love is one-sided. If a mother's love can be rewarded, that also only from children's children love. But Lawrence in "sons and lovers", the concept of a strong challenge. No one would deny that Lawrence is the most important writer of the twentieth century, and no one would...
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