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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... ...of the comic drama of the suicide. If this line of verse be not yet in our literature, Through very love of self himself he slew, let it be admitted f... ...; and very amusing was his descrip- tion of his cousin’s shifts to live by literature, and add enough to a beggarly income to get his usual two months... ...- tance. Is he not—not rich? When he leaves the Hall to try his fortune in literature in London, he may not be so well able to support Crossjay and ob... ...ed a small legacy some time back, and wanted to be off to push his luck in Literature: rank gambling, as I told him. Londonizing can do him no good. I... ...ad better not, unless you are fain to show that the higher world of polite literature is unknown to you. Sir Willoughby could create an abject silence... ...Vernon’s good to quit an easy pleasant home for the wretched profession of Literature?—wretchedly paying, I mean,” he bowed to the authoress. “Let him... ...m, promising to depart immediately. “Now you are at the section of Italian literature, my love,” said Dr Middleton. “Well, Mr. Whitford, the laborator... ...our days is a revel of rough truth,” remarked Professor Crooklyn. “And the literature has laboriously mastered the adjective, wherever it may be in re...

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...In recent years, there has been a rapid increase in the literature which discusses new phenomenon associated to social network. One of the well-known phenomenon in this regards is known as ‘six degrees of separation’ [1], which implies that one can always keep a communication with...

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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... ...eman) be allowed to smoke. In a place devoted to the cultivation of polite literature, such an ig- noble enjoyment were profane. “Clement Coddler , M....

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...or little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller, contained the best in children's literature, stories, poems and nursery rhymes. They progressed in difficulty through the different volumes - this first being intended for the youngest audience. (Summary by Maria Therese)...

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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 ... ...e and knowledge of life, as well as of morals or religion. All languages and literatures are full of general ob servations on life, both as to what i... ...ration of what is called civilization, and of the marvels of modern science, literature, and philosophy, and while greatly overrating the amount of un...

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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 ... ...ed in it “Father Abraham’s Sermon,” now regarded as the most famous piece of literature produced in Colonial America. Meantime Franklin was concerning...

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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... ... such opinions are abroad, as they convince him that the taste for Newgate literature is on the wane, and that when the public critic has right down u...

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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... ... least, to give it expression. The spirit of Villon is still living in the literature of France. Fat Peg is oddly of a piece with the work of Zola, th... ...much; it is a piece of experience that has nowhere else been rendered into literature; and a kind of gratitude for the author’s plainness mingles, as ... ...ard. VCITOR HUGO’S ROMANCES occupy an important position in the history of literature; many innovations, timidly made elsewhere, have in them been car... ...romances of Victor Hugo, and, through them, for a whole division of modern literature. We have here the legitimate continuation of a long and liv- ing... ... portrait of the good Bishop is one of the most agreeable things in modern literature. The whole scene at Montfermeil is full of the charm that Hugo k... ...all larger ventures, nor the less melancholy that a man who first attacked literature with a hand that seemed capable of moving mountains, should have... ... laureate’s word; but on the appearance of Burns, this coarse and laughing literature was touched to finer issues, and learned gravity of thought and ... ...h the spirit of so genuine and vigorous a man. Such is the stamp of living literature; and there was never any more alive than that of Burns. What a g...

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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... ...ed, 30 Robert Louis Stevenson and there was never a finer temperament for literature than Keats’s; it was so, if we could trace it out, that all men ... ...une which is the occasion of this paper, and by which I was able to see my literature in print, and to measure experimentally how far I stood from the... ...no book is written that has not been largely composed by their assistance. Literature in many of its branches is no other than the shadow of good talk... ... flies of ob- vious error in the amber of the truth. Last and chief, while literature, gagged with linsey-woolsey, can only deal with a fraction of th... ...nnot, even if it would, become merely aes- thetic or merely classical like literature. A jest intervenes, the solemn humbug is dissolved in laughter, ... ...ve two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect we hear too much of it in literature. The weather is regarded as the very nadir and scoff of conversa... ...ast and mountain, talk well of it; and it is often excitingly presented in literature. But the tendency of all living talk draws it back and back into... ...e matter to communicate, be they never so stupid. Their talk is not merely literature, it is great literature; classic in virtue of the speaker’s deta...

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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...