"Levin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... its summit the lurid levin Flashes downward without warning, As Lucifer, son of the morning, Fell from ...
— The Golden Legend • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
... imminent. Tolstoi was naturally vehemently opposed to it, while Katkov did everything in his power to inflame public opinion in favour of the war party; and he felt that Vronsky's departure for the war, after the death of Anna, with Levin's comments thereupon, were written in an unpatriotic manner. Ridiculous as it now seems to give this great masterpiece a political twist, or to judge it from that point of view, it was for a time the sole question that agitated the critics. ...
— Essays on Russian Novelists • William Lyon Phelps |
