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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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...o absent from her knowledge, for she had gathered from her acquaintance with literature that it was often a source of interest and even of instruction... ...t the girl would distinguish herself in print. Mrs. Varian thought highly of literature, for which she entertained that esteem that is connected with ... ...ent of one of the Miss Varians. Practically, Mrs. Varian’s acquaintance with literature was confined to The New York Interviewer; as she very justly sa... ...ament as I have one at my own dinner table. He has elegant tastes— cares for literature, for art, for science, for charming young ladies. The most ele... ...nsciousness to the or gan of pure reason. Of late, it was not to be denied, literature had seemed a fading light, and even after she had reminded her... ...e done? Has she no taste? he asked. “Oh yes, a great deal; but it’s more for literature,” said Pansy—“and for con versation. But papa cares also for ... ...has left it to your friend Miss Stackpole—‘in recognition of her services to literature.’ Does he mean her following him up from Rome? Was that a serv... ...erature.’ Does he mean her following him up from Rome? Was that a service to literature? It contains a great many rare and valuable books, and as she ... ..., and with the proceeds she’ll set up a newspaper. Will that be a service to literature?” This question Isabel forbore to answer, as it exceeded the l...

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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... ...ment unless it be pressed into the service of the truth. The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your ... ...he business of life is mainly carried on by means of this difficult art of literature, and according to a man’s proficiency in that art shall be the f... ...on by equal parts. For life, though largely, is not entirely carried on by literature. We are subject to physical pas- sions and contortions; the voic... ...tion as to have any prac- tical guess at the meaning of the word life. All literature, from Job and Omar Khayam to Thomas Carlyle or Walt Whitman, is ...

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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 ... ...saves the clergy from absolute ignorance as to that branch of our national literature. All this is hard upon men who, let them struggle as they may to... ...e most to say for himself, whether the talk be of hunting, of politics, of literature, or of the country. He is never a hunting man unalloyed, unadult...

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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... ... act and react on each other, and without retracing the revolutions not of literature alone but likewise of so ciety itself. I have therefore altoget... ...onent or symbol held forth by metrical language must in different aeras of literature have excited very different expectations: for example, in the ag... ...of intelligence hourly gratifies. To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themsel...

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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 ... ...r to Louis XIII of France, from his desire to devote himself exclusively to literature. He pub lished his Life of Aesop, Anno Domini 1632. The later... ...uction, however, of these Fables of Aesop to their high place in the general literature of Christendom, is to be looked for in the West rather than in... ...owever, towards a re introduc tion of the Fables of Aesop to a place in the literature of the world, was made in the early part of the seventeenth ce... ...n, and Christian. They are, at the present time, not only engrafted into the literature of the civilized world, but are familiar as household words in... ...nteresting, that it might not unfitly be enumerated among the curiosities of literature. He is generally supposed to have been a Greek of Asia Minor,... ... Delphin Classics. 1822. GEORGE FYLER TOWNSEND ENDNOTES 1 A History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, by K. O. Mueller. Vol. i, p. l9l. Lond... ..., line 808. 6 Fragment. 38, ed. Gaisford. See also Mueller’s History of the Literature of Ancient Greece, vol. i. pp. 190 193. 7 M. Bayle has well ...

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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... ...appy; Blumenthal was an old beast. Since then she has pub- lished a lot of literature—novels and poems and pam- phlets on every conceivable theme, fro... ...rk of fiction in his life, but he knew by hearsay that Madame Blumenthal’s literature, when put forth in pink covers, was subversive of several respec...

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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... ...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,... ...n that the three last are in all respects of the greatest names in English literature. I only mean that, in a certain quality, which for want of a bet... ...sent them; they are com- mon, if not invariable, in the abundant mediaeval literature of prose and verse romance; they are not unknown by any means in... ...f them. In the case of prose fiction, more than in any other department of literature, it is desirable that work should be read in the form which repr... ...eturn that favour; for his extraordinary goodness, as well as that fund of literature he was master of,* which he did not expect to find under such a ...