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...he mechanics of mating, but the veiled references to burning desire in her favourite Jane Austen novels, was all she knew. Even if she allowed Gavin... ...nish friend’s uncanny sixth sense knew that the lovers wanted to be alone on what was for them a sentimental journey. * * * * * * As if to celebra...

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...ing the pages of a book, or hearing a man’s speculations, critical, or intellectual, or sentimental, thereupon; but we would look for Him in the exer... ...ure expresseth not, and proceeding to write treatises and books, which appear more like novels, fit only to amuse the idle. But, in one word, these ...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...

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... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...AL LINCOLN’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leon... .... -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A collection of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesb... ...Philosophy, Willamette University oices from the Past is a quintet of novels that describe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progres... ...his death in an automobile accident in 1990, the manu- scripts of the five novels were discovered among his as yet unpublished papers. He had been at... ...ling, love- making, songs. It was the dusk I love. And it was easy to grow sentimental, to talk of Alcaeus and miss him, to remember our fun at other... ...mystery: we are taken inside a private world that is tragic or amusing or sentimental; things that are a part of this world must be judiciously hint...

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... SAPPHO’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leon... ...orks of fiction which together make up Voices from the Past, a quintet of novels that de- scribe the inner lives of five extraordinary people. Progre... ...his death in an automobile accident in 1990, the manu- scripts of the five novels were discovered among his as yet unpublished papers. He had been at... ...his fiction, including When the Owl Cries and Adiós Mi México, historical novels set during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and descrip- tive of hacie... ...ficant, unique, highly individual, and important creators. In each of the novels that make up Voices from the Past, his interest is to portray the i... ...ling, love- making, songs. It was the dusk I love. And it was easy to grow sentimental, to talk of Alcaeus and miss him, to remember our fun at other...

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...uppress them. This is no mere fantasy, Macaulay tells us. After praising the novels of Samuel Richardson in terms that, to modern eyes, seem a little ... ... the work, but because the work would be altogether suppressed. Richardson’s novels—Pamela, Clarissa Har- lowe, and so on—are now the preserve of the ... ...ur intuitive understanding that “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels. All of this was much clearer before the assim... ...y economic historians, everything I have said up to now is the worst kind of sentimental bunk, romanticizing a form of life that was neither comfortab... ...ver new types of products, whose economics were very different from those of novels. Rather than let the dominant software compa- nies use copyright t... ...en if the red dot rule were only to be applied to hardback books, or graphic novels, or cassette tapes, it would still be unconstitutional. Nor do we ...

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...- in knowing when to let go. Return The Myth of the Earnings Yield In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists using the f... ...y adviser. I wanted to sell stock which had been left me by my father. He got very sentimental: 'Oh your father wouldn't have liked you to do that.... ...ness orientation, many countries found it difficult to adapt to the pragmatic, non sentimental approach which led to the virtual elimination of the...

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...uttering the shelf, a gallimaufry of hardcover titles—the prerequisite spy novels here, the mysteries and suspenses there, the historical and contempo... ...he back of her eyes as she gaped at him. Damn, had she been this mushy and sentimental as a guy? She wondered, couldn't remember for sure. "Like I sai...

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...rk for the world than to work for God. It is easier to read magazines and novels than to read God’s word. It is easier to donate time or money to on... ...m said, picking up the solid, hand crafted antique. “I can understand its sentimental value, but the church is in need.” Placing it down in the cent...

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...sh Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg 1775 The Undead, Astral Tra... ...ng to its children today. Children are now so marginalized, commercialized, sentimentalized, alienated, ignored and patronized that you get a gene... ... 483 parents. Because they have been lied-to, and brainwashed with so much sentimental Disney-esque bullshit: that they live their entire lives i... ... You can see the modern equivalent of exclusive love in Harlequin Romance novels. Where the heroine falls in love only with the most handsome, ... ...ivilization on Humans 809 Do you ever see any heroines in these novels falling in Romantic Affairs with a male who is not perfect, who... ...eries of the lower classes simply do not exist in these books. These romance novels are pure selective adult fairy tales: whose format, plot, and c... ...rations can make their killing off them. In affluent societies; children are sentimentalized by mass media. Books are written for them. Movies are... ...n real life: it only exists on film. As a poisoned, watered down, idealized, sentimentalized, mass-produced, copied, boring, bullshit token of actu... ...it. However, we do not do that. We ignore our young, we patronize them, we sentimentalize them, we de-value them, we give them useless toys to wa...

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...The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The book sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year, and is probably one of the highest selling verse novels ever published ...

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...herished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acoustics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hearing of music....

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...people” whom New Y ork was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for ... ... all the rooms on one floor, and all the indecent propinquities that their novels described. It amused Newland Archer (who had 21 Edith Wharton secre... ...an revolutionary glazed ware, subscribed to “Good Words,” and read Ouida’s novels for the sake of the Italian atmosphere. (They preferred those about ... ...s of scenery and the pleasanter sen- timents, though in general they liked novels about people in society, whose motives and habits were more comprehe... ... so happy.” “But then—why not be happier?” “We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?” “Why not—why not—why not?” She looked a little bor... ... a perfectly charming girl at the mo- ment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had repres... ...as the first law of a gentleman’s code was too deeply ingrained in him for sentimental consid- erations to weaken it. An adventurer like Lemuel Struth... ...he first time she became absorbed in her own symptoms, and began to take a sentimental interest in certain members of her family to whom she had hithe... ...his authoritative text is reprinted from the Library of America edition of Novels by Edith Wharton, and is based on the sixth impression of the first ...

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...th such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress of the work, the production ceased to bear any, even the mos...

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...mpt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simp... ...inie Sampson’s real story, in which there is neither romantic incident nor sentimental passion; but which, perhaps, from the rectitude and simplic- it... ...n is also applicable to one or two similar passages, in this and the other novels, introduced for the same rea- son.] But the truth is undeniable; the...

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...put a stop to the monstrous romantic jargon made popular by certain famous novels. The comedy of the Femmes Savantes exposed the later and less appare... ...s class in England, a large body, neither Puritan nor Bacchanalian, have a sentimental objection to face the study of the actual world. They take up d... ...rable bundle of caprices, very feminine, very sympathetic, of romantic and sentimental fiction? Our women are taught to think so. The Agnes of the Eco... ...d, not necessarily heartless from being clear-sighted: they seem so to the sentimentally- reared only for the reason that they use their wits, and are... ...g our cultivated middle class that we should expect to support Comedy. The sentimentalist is as averse as the Puritan and as the Bacchanalian. Our tra... ...f their little earthmen. Spiritual laughter they have not yet attained to: sentimentalism waylays them in the flight. Here and there a Volkslied or Ma... ...traight into a com- edy, were the plot arranged for them. Galt’s neglected novels have some characters and strokes of shrewd comedy. In our poetic lit... ...glish. Many of them now swelling a plethoric market, in the composition of novels, in pun-manufactories and in jour- nalism; attached to the machinery...

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...s of high life, and some of very middling indeed; some love-making for the sentimental, and some light comic business; the whole accompanied by approp... ...e was a dear little creature; and a great mercy it is, both in life and in novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in villains of the most so... ... will pronounce to be exces- sively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental. Y es; I can see Jones at this minute (rather flushed with his ... ... he is a lofty man of genius, and admires the great and heroic in life and novels; and so had better take warning and go elsewhere. Well, then. The fl... ... in private societies, or anywhere except in very high-flown and ingenious novels. As there was music in the next room, the talk was carried on, of co... ... in private societies, or anywhere except in very high-flown and ingenious novels. As there was music in the next room, the talk was carried on, of co... ... marriage this 37 Thackeray Sehnsucht nach der Liebe subsides. It is what sentimentalists, who deal in very big words, call a yearning after the Idea... ...Donizettian music with which we are favoured now-a-days. Conversation of a sentimental sort, befitting the subject, was carried on between the songs, ... ...ey Wollah, Sedley?” asked Osborne, laughing. “Pooh, nonsense!” replied the sentimental youth. “Bought ‘em at Nathan’s; very glad you like ‘em; and eh,...

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...ut of the pocket of his memory, and crunches a bit, and relishes it with a sentimental tenderness, too, for he is, no doubt, back at school by this ti... ... and Whitworth will bowl at them with light field-pieces next), there were novels — ah! I trouble you to find such novels in the present day! O Scotti...

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...to do, ex- cept a functionless existence varied by calls, tennis, selected novels, walks, and dusting in her father’s house. She thought study would b... ...a father one could make much of. His ideas about girls and women were of a sentimental and modest quality; they were creatures, he thought, either too... ...fit. About this conception of ownership he perceived and desired a certain sentimental glamour, he liked everything properly dressed, but it remained ... ...ging. Daugh- ters were not like sons. He perceived, however, that both the novels he read and the world he lived in discountenanced these assumptions.... ...Wells about so much.” “Y es. That’s about the beginning. It’s these damned novels. All this torrent of misleading, spurious stuff that pours from the ... ...hance. Men are against her. Whatever she does is mini- mized. All the best novels have been written by women, and yet see how men sneer at the lady no... ...o vivid picture of her father as the masterful man, overbearing, emphatic, sentimental, noisy, aimless. Why on earth couldn’t he leave her to grow in ... ... certainly very effective. In the bad light he looked at once military and sentimental and studious, like one of Ouida’s guardsmen re- vised by Mr. Ha... ...Almighty , substratum of the evolutionary process, and, in a vein of vague sentimentality that doesn’t give a datum for anything at all, in Jesus Chri...

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... of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered. There is a time to dance and a time to mourn; to be ... ...terary work which conveys faithful facts or pleasing impressions is a service to the public. It is even a service to be thankfully proud of having ren... ... in themselves, that they communicate. I should never forgive myself if I forgot The Egoist. It is art, if you like, but it belongs purely to didactic... ...se on despair; but I shut my mouth hard, and during the journey to Davos, where I was to pass the winter, had the resolution to think of other things ...

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...s a consummate artist, led first and foremost by his love for his art, his novels are undying historical pictures. It is not that there is anything al... ...g historical pictures. It is not that there is anything allegorical in his novels—alle- gory is at the furthest pole from his method: it is that when-... ... Trafalgar and Waterloo were being fought and won. But each of T urgenev’s novels in some subtle way suggests that the people he introduces are playin... ...critics and diplomatists must necessarily misrepresent. Each of Turgenev’s novels may be said to contain a light- bringing rejoinder to the old-fashio... ..., and still, unfortunately, lingering among us; but On the Eve, of all the novels, contains perhaps the most instructive political lesson England can ... ...Russian ballads fairly well and could play various pieces, both lively and sentimental, very correctly on the piano. She dressed with taste, but in a ...

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...s of high life, and some of very middling indeed; some love-making for the sentimental, and some light comic business; the whole accompanied by approp... ...e was a dear little creature; and a great mercy it is, both in life and in novels, which (and the latter especially) abound in villains of the most so... ... will pronounce to be exces- sively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental. Y es; I can see Jones at this minute (rather flushed with his ... ... he is a lofty man of genius, and admires the great and heroic in life and novels; and so had better take warning and go elsewhere. Well, then. The fl... ... in private societies, or anywhere except in very high-flown and ingenious novels. As there was music in the next room, the talk was carried on, of co... ... in private societies, or anywhere except in very high-flown and ingenious novels. As there was music in the next room, the talk was carried on, of co... ... marriage this 37 Thackeray Sehnsucht nach der Liebe subsides. It is what sentimentalists, who deal in very big words, call a yearning after the Idea... ...Donizettian music with which we are favoured now-a-days. Conversation of a sentimental sort, befitting the subject, was carried on between the songs, ... ...ey Wollah, Sedley?” asked Osborne, laughing. “Pooh, nonsense!” replied the sentimental youth. “Bought ‘em at Nathan’s; very glad you like ‘em; and eh,...

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...ich occurred was the project of that complete and corrected edition of his Novels and Romances (whose real parentage had of necessity been dis- closed... ...s to preserve my incognito on the subject of what were called the Waverley Novels? I did not immediately see the purpose of his lordship’s question, a... ...oposing my health to the meeting, to say something on the subject of these Novels so strongly connecting them with me as the author, that by remaining... ...d respectable company assembled, as the sole and un- aided author of these Novels of Waverley, the paternity of which was likely at one time to have f... ..., London, who (died during the publication of the present edition of these Novels. (Aug. 1831.)] had said, upon the appearance of the work, that he wa... ... taste for natural beauty, and still more so for forming associations of a sentimental kind, connecting us with the inanimate objects around us. I had... ...Bethune Baliol. Her benevolence, which was never satisfied with dropping a sentimental tear, when there was room for the operation of effective charit...