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...Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and first Chancellor of American University, has written a sweeping thousand 900 year history of English literature, up to the end of the 19th century. Although at times biased and sometimes misguided (as when he dismisses Mark Twain as a humorist noteworthy in his time but not for the ages), his research is sound and his critic...

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...es, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring... ...d in forest, which is our strangling enemy, and which we combat with axes and dollars. I went crazy over outdoor work, and had at last to confine myse... ... anyway. Two favours I want to ask of you. First, I wish you to get ‘Pioneering in New Guinea,’ by J. Chalmers. It’s a mis- sionary book, and has les... ...my head swims and every string in the poor jumping Jack (as he now lies in bed) aches with a kind of yearning strain, difficult to suffer in quiescenc... ...; all four will go by the mail, which is what I wish, for so I keep at least my start. Days and days of unprofitable stubbing and digging, and the re-... ...ve or six years this plan- tation—suppose it and us still to exist—should pretty well support us and pay wages; not before, and already the six years ... ...icandum. JUNE THE 1ST. Back on p. 93. I was on 100 yesterday, but read it over and condemned it. 10 A. M. I have worked up again to 97, but how?The ... ...been instead doing my two or three hours in the plan- tation every morning. I only wish somebody would pay me 10 pounds a day for taking care of cacao... ...c. But the other part of me regimbs. I know I am at a climacteric for all men who live by their wits, so I do not despair. But the truth is I am prett...

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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... ...ith the decent and self-respecting part of society, we must look to French literature, or to that part of the German which is tainted with the spuriou...

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...e students used to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all th... ...ds in Europe. The Schulze Delitsch movement. . . .And then all this enormous literature of the labor question, the most liberal Lassalle movement. . .... ...ellectual work that came in his way. But in our day he goes straight for the literature of negation, very quickly assimilates all the extracts of the ... ... he’s ready. And that’s not all—twenty years ago he would have found in that literature traces of conflict with authorities, with the creeds of the age... ... this conflict that there was something else; but now he comes at once upon a literature in which the old creeds do not even furnish matter for discuss... ...ors, and she did a great deal of reading, both of novels and of what serious literature was in fashion. She ordered all the books that were praised in... ...e portrait. What you said so perfectly hits off French art now, painting and literature too, indeed— Zola, Daudet. But perhaps it is always so, that m... ...on, watching for the first impression his book would make in the world and in literature. But a week passed, a second, a third, and in society no impre...

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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... ...ssons in taste and elegance. Their voices, which once laid down the law to literature, that living expression of a time, now counted absolutely for no... ...living expression of a time, now counted absolutely for nought. Now when a literature lacks a general system, it fails to shape a body for itself, and... ...ntry yields mighty little gold to the crucible when washed in the ashes of literature or philosophy. In every rank of society (some few Parisian salon... ...ting-women, and took down their slanders, our epoch would have appeared in literature as a well-con- ducted age. I am justifying the century and not i...

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...rt of an ongo- ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...E PRESENT PUBLICATION is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French ... ...lassic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and the most... ...a, has been paraphrased in verse by Corneille. See Nodier, Questions de la Literature llgale, 1828, pp. 7, 160. The monologue of Augustus in this chap... ...e should bring back 190 Essays: Book the First his soul replete with good literature, and he brings it only swelled and puffed up with vain and empty...

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.................................. 16 CHAPTER II: INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF STRIFE ........................................... 42 CHAPTER III: INFANT LITERATURE.................................................................................... 105 CHAPTER IV: THE FEMALE INFIDEL ...................................................................................118 CHAPTER ...

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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... ... STRIFE ........................................... 42 CHAPTER III: INFANT LITERATURE ................................................................... ...ring together into volumes their own scattered contributions to periodical literature. Upon that suggestion, they suppose me suddenly to have remember... ...ich regulated literary property, and especially the property in periodical literature. But a far greater diffi- culty lay in the labor (absolutely ins... ...of impassioned prose ranging under no precedents that I am aware of in any literature, it is much more difficult to speak justly, whether in a hostile... ...; and, secondly, I desire him to consider the utter sterility of universal literature in this one department of impassioned prose; which certainly arg... ...atic friends in Edinburgh. Lord Monboddo himself trod an eccentric path in literature and philosophy; and our tutor, who spent his whole life in readi... ...has moved for two centuries upon a principle of slight regard to classical literature. Latin literature was very much neglected, and Greek nearly alto... ...ever, are endowed with so much candor; and in particular, for the honor of literature, it grieves me to find, by p. 10, that the largest number of the...

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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... ... be pertinent, I would venture to remark that the object of the teacher of literature is, of course, only to fulfill the desire of the au- thor—to mak... ...f August, 1785. His father was a man of high character and great taste for literature as well as a successful man of busi- ness; he died, most unfortu... ... impassioned prose ranging un- der no precedents that I am aware of in any literature, it is much more difficult to speak justly, whether in a hostile... ...bserve these famous men and women, and he possessed no little insight into literature and personality. As to the Autobiographic Sketches, the handling... ...ewer still criticism or philosophy; to ev- ery normal boy the gate of good literature is the good story. It is the narrative skill of De Quincey that ... ...“Probably more boys have in the last forty years been brought to a love of literature proper by De Quincy than by any other writer whatever.”—History ... ...e Quincy than by any other writer whatever.”—History of Nineteenth-Century Literature, p.198. *“T o read the Essay on Murder, the English Mail-Coach, ... ... sixteen is, or ought to be, to fall in love with them.”—Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860, p.307. 10 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc ri...