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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. The course of true love never did run smooth. SmK.3pF.iiiE. What discords are to a well-concerted piece of music, shadows to a beautifully executed picture, and a short, a very short fit of pouting to a lovely woman, is a little dul- ness to a novel. Some repose is necessary, some dulness indispensable. The difficulty is, in what shape to serve it up. Modern fiction-writers, in general, throw in more than a fair share of this commendable quality, in the shape of long and unintelligible love speeches. Others have a peculiar facility of being muddily metaphysical; others, immeasurably moral. The sinfulness of sin is a very good thing to discourse upon, but tedious. The sorrowfulness of sorrow, or in stronger terms still, the wofulness of wo, might serve the purpose; but as I am, for one so aged, or rather a cheerful disposition, I cannot make up my mind to use either of these subjects, so precious unto dulness. Indeed, I have a very consoling view of every thing. I think that the world has already been at its worst?thatthe stream of improvement runs with a current so wide and so resistless, that it must carry mankind forward into the still and blessed lake of happiness that Christianity has, for nearly two thousand years, been preparing for weaned and persecuted humanity. What are now the impediments that lie in its onward course? A few old turret ted prejudices, in which despotism still contrives to find strong holds, and a few principles of levelling destruction, that would undermine its banks?those banks, that the wisdom of ages has thrown up, in order to keep the torrent of human events in its only secure course. Those are all that I can discover to prevent this grand consummation. I shall not live to see it, but those who will live immediatel...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217361538 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217361536 |
| Weight | 0.53 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 158 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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