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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...clerks, bears witness to a dreary, sterile folly, – a twilight of the mind peopled with childish phantoms. In relation to his contemporaries, Charles ... ...enewed and vivified history. For art precedes philosophy and even science. People must have noticed things and interested them- selves in them before ... ...ialect in the sister country, and a different school of poetry tracing its descent, through King James I., from Chaucer. The dialect alone ac- counts ... ... paraphrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustom... ...e, this has the very quality they are accustomed to look for and admire in Greek. The contemporaries of Burns were surprised that he should visit so m... ... man for any genuine quali- ties, as we see by his admirable sketch of the Canadian wood- cutter in Walden; but he would not consent, in his own words... ...ature the same face of awe and terror as to these courageous Japanese. The descent of Ulysses into hell is a parallel more near the case than the bold...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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