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...Excerpt: Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladies of A...

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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 ... ...medies are such rare productions, that notwith- standing the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over th... ...These bad traditions of Comedy affect us not only on the stage, but in our literature, and may be tracked into our so- cial life. They are the ground ... ...n shows a national aptitude for stout animal laughter; and we see that the literature is built on it, which is hopeful so far; but to enjoy it, to ent... ...hought who had not his word to say about it when riding home. In our prose literature we have had delightful Comic writ- ers. Besides Fielding and Gol... ...ed novels have some characters and strokes of shrewd comedy. In our poetic literature the comic is delicate and graceful above the touch of Italian an...

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...a State University’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make ... ...ays confined to his own his tory and misfortunes. On every point of general literature he displays unbounded knowledge and a quick and piercing appre...

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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... ...(Ep., 88) tells us, wrote four not six thousand books on questions of vain literature, which was the principal study of the ancient grammarian.—Coste.... ...uoque, intemperantia laboramus.” [“We carry intemperance into the study of literature, as well as into everything else.”—Seneca, Ep., 106.] And T acit...

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... life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not ... ...n the cellar. What if an equal ado were made about the ornaments of style in literature, and the architects of our bibles spent as much time about the... ...ritten in that Greek or Latin which they knew, but in the select language of literature. They had not learned the nobler dialects of Greece and Rome, ... ...itten were waste paper to them, and they prized instead a cheap contemporary literature. But when the several nations of Europe had acquired distinct ... ...e written languages of their own, sufficient for the purposes of their rising literatures, then first learning revived, and scholars were enabled to dis... ...man’s speech. Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, f... ...w ex ceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell. Even the college bred and... ...and distiller of celestial dews. Who knows in how many unremembered nations’ literatures this has been the Castalian Fountain? or what nymphs presided... ...the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not t...

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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... ...re. Journalism and politics, the immense development of the book trade, of literature and of the sciences; the increase of public interest in matters ... ...- abouts, Mercier said in his Tableau de Paris that a man can- not live by literature, poetry, letters, or science, by the crea- tures of his brain, i... ...y, I feel sure that I can give the French paper trade the privilege of our literature; papermaking will be for France what coal and iron and coarse po... ...’Houmeau to be beforehand in doing honor to the poet who in journalism and literature has so gloriously repre- sented our town in Paris. Lucien de Rub...

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... that here in Paris, where we are founding chairs of Mantchu and Slave and literatures so little professable (to coin a word) as the literatures of th... ...intact and entire for want of an outlet in con- versation, in politics, in literature, in the imaginings of the scholar, in the efforts of the statesm...

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