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NOTICES OP BOOKS. 351
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terse and there and concise remind p us hrases that and Jane energetic Ehas turns been of written thought ; there which is here the yre
constant call to daily , repeated , unknown , unrepaid sacrifice which p and laces the the worshi book in of a will still which more now modern seems and to characterize totally different all women class ' s ;
works and lives p , is not wanting , here , —but nevertheless , the book is thoroughly original ; neither style , manner , nor thought are borrowed .
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their writer intense , and will truth , we and think simp , reach licity . the Hardly any one will read this ht is the without
bookfew as the characters are and sligas story , who a very , will eager not desire after this to " is see satisfied tie end , turn ; " and back there to are read few and we re think -read
the chronicle , of old yet ever new feelings , which we each fancy peto culiar to the ourselve inner s , life till of the all lig humanity ht of mid-day and experience which we shews shall them here
us as , vivid recognise a power truth and as old and realit familiar intensity y of expression friends We , — , had or which it may marked place be enemies them many before passages , drawn us with with for _,
. extractbut we must be satisfied with one or two to give an idea of , the writer ' s style .
there 6 i The is a unendurable wonderful ower must in be that endured word — must that . was When his once only lie feeling heard . it pro But - p
nouncedhe felt a sort of strength within him , though it was only the strength , of despair . could be borneThis first rush of grief
" What must be borne . was parlast donable His now home in the first discovery the , lonel of peaks his hard and duty the , keen but the frosts first and must desolate be the
. was on y , m barrenness ained there must as be lie his had onl done y experience for so long throug ; if lie h life had . not If he descended had always into the
resweet valley and , looked along the _exquisite vista , bright with cheerful images of " home That ! was past , and now he must h life return The to the le chilling loneliness Honor
he had leftthere to remain throug . struggwas over : triump Love of his is heart hed ; , — L tenacious ove there was imprisoned led of life back and a to trembling die can soon live , cap on he tive food hoped into that , of the is starvation inmo hard st to recesses . banish But
bar from more s that the shadowy very most Resolution rig , of idl what y- draws guarded mig and ht , prison have prolong ; been airy the , hopes penetrate life and , and suffering dim throug imag h s the inations of the bolts captive , even and
withm . _# # # # Fred had to bedEdward and Ellen went out
" Afterwardswhen gone , on again the and snowy sat peaks on , the , watching terrace till the very mountains late , watching retire into the shadowy last rosy indistinct tint fade - crescent solid in the
nessas the stars came out and the moon grew pale tains overcame evening gone " , Nothing . down The sk the y , , a and g expresses low deep the of hush of sunset silver water such of . line repose It ives deep was of the had its repose a needful still reflection come , balmy as over contrast a in lake the evening the earth to shut waters the . . in The bold b by y wind vi degrees moun gorous had - g
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Notices Op Books. 351
_NOTICES OP BOOKS . 351
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/63/
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