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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ents. Have we not seen libraries working off the word “pictur- esque” when literature would have cut the throat of the word “fantastic”? Fiscal genius... ... out what was going on in T ours, torment the cure, and finally, by way of dramatic entertainment, assist at the sale of lands in the neighborhood of ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ional reputation. The people of the East being eager to see the hero of so dramatic a con- test, he had been induced to visit several Eastern cities, ... ...d. Most of these letters stand among the finest monuments of our political literature. Thus he presented the singular spectacle of a President who, in... ...nge at large, in a cursory and indiscriminate way, through wide domains of literature. This youth’s mind, at any rate, was thoroughly saturated with B... ...nd I therefore only propose a brief outline. The chief person- ages in the drama are Archibald Fisher, supposed to be murdered, and Archibald Trailor,...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make ... ...ll her feelings revolved round Paris. Panshin turned the conversation upon literature; it seemed that, like him- self, she read only French books. Geo... ...em, but of course she did not even men- tion his name. T o tell the truth, literature had no great inter- est for her. Varvara Pavlovna very skilfully... ...g and elegant. Every one has his ideal. Varvara Pavlovna found hers in the dramatic works of M. Dumas Fils. She diligently frequents the theatres, whe...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...Rehearsal, but full of humour and spirit. The most successful of his other dramatic works were the _Mock Doc- tor and the Miser, adaptations of Molier... ...ontributions to periodicals soon after that event. But he soon returned to literature proper, or rather made his debut in it, with the immortal book n... ...sonality goes, exist in the general mind that inter- ests itself at all in literature than of Fielding. Yet more than once a warning has been sounded,... ...rely wrong altogether, but it con- stantly has a habit of exaggerating and dramatising their char- acteristics. For some things in Fielding’s career w... ...inguished not merely from its elder sister the romance, and its cousin the drama, but still more from every other kind of litera- ture—that Fielding s...

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...s part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make ... ... the numerous addresses of the same kind which oc- cur in Plato, in whom the dramatic element is always tending to prevail over the rhetorical. The re... ...dia- logues; and mistakes of names are very likely to have oc- curred. Greek literature in the third century before Christ was almost as voluminous as... ...enophon and the Dialogues of Plato are but a part of a considerable Socratic literature which has passed away. And we must consider how we should rega... ... at all times? Certainly not Plato, who exhibits the greatest differences in dramatic power, in the formation of sentences, and in the use of words, i...

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...ge home, the educational scheme, the sug- gestions for the organization of literature and a common lan- guage, the criticism of polling and the jury s... ... thing as air at all. The vast mass of human expression in act and art and literature takes a narrower view than we have here formulated; it presents ... ...h with verdure and shaped the massifs of the Alps, to such a man the whole literature the world produced until the nineteenth century had well progres... ...gain the battles of the Factio Albata or the Factio Prasina. These current dramas, these current con- flicts seem scarcely less factitious. Men withou... ...; at its end we have an adult, formed and determinate, for whom indeed the drama and conflict of life is still only beginning, but who is, nevertheles... ...people should know, and know fully before they are involved in the central drama of life, in the serious business of love. There should be no hor- rif...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... “Bliss Farm,” in which Steele Mackaye the playwright wrote the well known drama “Hazel Kirke.” The next spring Mr. Kipling purchased from his brother... ...saw. From that very resolute little mouth I received a lecture on American literature, the na- ture and inwardness of Washington society, the precise ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...n for not having done so. For one of my age I have seen very little of the drama. The first presentation of Falstaff I ever saw was yours here, last w...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...eir local governments, their passions and prejudices, and their ethics and literature; leaving nothing unnoticed that might afford an argument to prov... ...on the exterior form of North America, as the theatre upon which the great drama is to be enacted, for graphic and picturesque description of the phys... ... to him to de- grade administration and bring statesmanship, learning, and literature to the level of the lowest, are no longer considered. The violen... ...ality. Book One – Chapters XIX – XXI Chapter XIX: Some Observations on the Drama Amongst Democratic Nations When the revolution which subverts the soc... ...to penetrate into litera- ture, it generally first manifests itself in the drama, and it always remains conspicuous there. The spectator of a dra- mat...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... which so profoundly impressed the nation in 1812) were in themselves, for dramatic effect, the most impressive on record. Southey pronounced their pr... ...of flaying them alive. One such case had been previously recorded in human literature, and illustrated by a plate. It occurs in a Dutch voyage to the ... ...recipice, may ultimately have been their own. Once I saw such another case dramatically carried through to its natural crisis in the Liverpool Mail. I... ... most industrious benefactor to the early stages of our English historical literature, Thomas Hearne. Three hundred guineas, I believe, had been the p... ...lished divinity, that his fathers have achieved their station in the great drama of the national evolution. But, whilst I was ignorant of theology, as...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...and is furnished with external goods sufficient for acting his part in the drama of life: and this during no ordinary period but such as constitutes a... ...e made what resistance he could (instances are, Philoctetes in Theodectes’ drama when wounded by the viper; or Cercyon in the Alope of Carcinus, or me...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...r, though it keeps on this side of wickedness; one of those dark and comic dramas to which that of Tartuffe is mere child’s play, —dramas that do not ... ...ey are natural, 31 Balzac conceivable, and even justifiable by necessity; dramas which may be characterized as not vice, only the other side of it. T... ...ll. Then she wanted to compare these books with the best that contemporary literature had produced. By the time d’Arthez came to see her she was havin... ...think they are misunderstood, or ill-mated, and who try to make themselves dramatically in- teresting,—attempts which seem to me, I must say, intoler-... ...e princess revealed herself to d’Arthez as remarkable for her knowledge of literature. She discussed with perfect fearlessness the most difficult ques...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...a painting, a portrait, and of single incidents as pictures or scenes in a drama. His eye is keen for contrasts, for pictur- esque moments, for dramat... ...hat he will exert the force of his person- ality upon us. BIOGRAPHY IS THE literature of realized person- ality, of life as it has been lived, of actu... ...ossible, in a life spent in this world. In this sense it is peculiarly the literature of truth and authenticity. Elements of imagina- tion and specula... ...son honoured his opening of it with a Pro- logue, which for just and manly dramatick criti- cism, on the whole range of the English stage, as well as ... ...per of Johnson, which 68 Boswell’s Life of Johnson could not brook that a drama which he had formed with much study, and had been obliged to keep mor...

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