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Mrs. (Anna) Jameson. A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies
A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PART I. Ethics and Character
Theological
PART II. Literature and Art
LIST OF ETCHINGS
PART I. Ethics and Character
Ethical Fragments. 1
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16. Thoughts on a Sermon
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A REVELATION OF CHILDHOOD (FROM A LETTER.)
121
THE INDIAN HUNTER AND THE FIRE (FROM THE GERMAN.)
LINES.—1840
Theological Fragments
1. THE HERMIT AND THE MINSTREL (A PARABLE, FROM ST. JEROME.)
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NOTES FROM VARIOUS SERMONS, MADE ON THE SPOT; SHOWING SOME THINGS IN WHICH ALL GOOD MEN ARE AGREED. I. From a Roman Catholic Sermon
II. From another Roman Catholic Sermon, delivered in the private chapel of a Nobleman
III. Fragments of a Sermon (Anglican Church)
IV
V. From a Sermon (apparently extempore) by a Dissenting Minister
VI
VII. RELIGION AND SCIENCE
PART II. Literature and Art
Notes from Books. 1
2
DR. ARNOLD. 3
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NIEBUHR. LIFE AND LETTERS, 1852. 26
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CHARACTER OF DEMADES (FROM NIEBUHR’s LECTURES.) 39
LORD BACON (1849.) 40
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CHATEAUBRIAND (“MEMOIRES D’OUTRE TOMBE.” 1851.) 57
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BISHOP CUMBERLAND. BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH IN 1691. 71
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COMTE’S PHILOSOPHY. 1852. 75
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GOETHE (DICHTUNG UND WAHRHEIT.) 87
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HAZLITT’S “LIBER AMORIS.” 1827. 90
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THE NIGHTINGALE. 94
THACKERAY’S LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH HUMORISTS (1833.) 95
Notes on Art. 96
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A FRAGMENT ON SCULPTURE. AND ON CERTAIN CHARACTERS IN HISTORY AND POETRY CONSIDERED AS SUBJECTS OF MODERN ART. 1848
HELEN
PENELOPE. ALCESTIS. LAODAMIA
HIPPOLYTUS. NEOPTOLEMUS
IPHIGENIA
EVE
ADAM
ANGELS
MIRIAM. RUTH
CHRIST. SOLOMON. DAVID
HAGAR. REBEKAH. RACHEL
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA
LADY GODIVA
JOAN OF ARC
CHARACTERS FROM SHAKSPEARE
CHARACTERS FROM SPENSER
THE LADY. COMUS
SATAN
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Mrs. Jameson
2nd ed
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While we were discussing Balzac’s celebrity as a romance writer, she (O. G.) said, with a shudder: “His laurels are steeped in the tears of women—every truth he tells has been wrung in tortures from some woman’s heart.”
Sir Walter Scott, writing in 1831, seems to regard it as a terrible misfortune that the whole burgher class in Scotland should be gradually preparing for representative reform. “I mean,” he says, “the middle and respectable classes: when a borough reform comes, which, perhaps, cannot long be delayed, ministers will no longer return a member for Scotland from the towns.” “The gentry,” he adds, “will abide longer by sound principles, for they are needy, and desire advancement for themselves, and appointments for their sons and so on. But this is a very hollow dependence, and those who sincerely hold ancient opinions are waxing old,” &c. &c.
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