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...glows with Oriental savagery and splendor; but although the story is a very powerful, - well, tremendously powerful - one, it is rather too highly spiced for the average reader. The writer of "Alexis" has recently been censured for his penchant for slaughter; but it is to Mr. Bruce's lust for gore and rapine as the gentle zephyr is to the hurricane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The February "Monthly." | 2/17/1887 | See Source »

...mental incertitude, social destraction and moral confusion. The daily excitement which prevails unfits the soul for meditation. If we could but be transferred to the age of Abraham, or David, or even Cotton Mather, it would be easy to live a sober and godly life. But now the lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh, and of vain glory undermine the higher aims and motives. And then, all the world meets at our door - people of different habits and ways of life. There is no unanimity of thought and practice; there is uncertainty as to which ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appleton Chapel. | 1/24/1887 | See Source »

...pounds, this being expected to cover everything. There was indeed little chance to spend money, for the statutes of the college even went so far as to expressly forbid such extravagance as hunting or the wearing of "great muffs," both being symptoms of what the tutor called "the humorous lust of boastful expense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY LIFE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. | 12/4/1883 | See Source »

Pain, Hunger, Lust, and Guilt, and hideous Want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIDNIGHT. | 3/13/1874 | See Source »

...cruel gods of lust and hate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THREE GRAY SISTERS. | 3/13/1874 | See Source »

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