...ticular things, such as, for instance, the analysis of Poe’s place in American literature — an essay of mine, by the way, in the current Atlantic. Com... ...d I remarked Bulfinch’s “Age of Fable,” Shaw’s “History of English and American Literature,” and Johnson’s “Natural History” in two large volumes. Then... ...ith Wolf Larsen, eating at the cabin table and doing nothing but discuss life, literature, and the universe, the while Thomas Mugridge fumed and raged...

...as she was at that moment, but had before him some imaginary rough sketch or drama of her future life. Roused, now, by her cheerful summons, he shook ...

...ing here to view Those samples, as of the ancient comedy And Thespian times, dramas of living men 315 And recent things yet warm with life: a sea fight... ...th after month. Obscurely did I live, 20 Not courting the society of men, By literature, or elegance, or rank, Distinguished—in the midst of things, i... ...s forward, yea, set foot On Nature’s holiest places. Time may come When some dramatic story may afford 885 Shapes livelier to convey to thee, my frien...

...ources, Inc. Milton Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . 1 Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call’d Tragedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 SAMSON Agonistes. - i - Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call’d Tragedy TRagedy, as it was antiently co... ...hich this work never was intended) is here omitted. It suffices if the whole Drama be found not produc’t beyond the fift Act, of the style and unifor...

...Excerpt: Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call?d Tragedy; Tragedy, as it was antiently compos?d, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other Poems: therefore said by Aristotle to be of power by raising pity and f...

Table of Contents: Of that sort of Dramatic Poem which is call?d Tragedy, 1 -- The ARGUMENT., 2 -- The Persons., 3 -- SAMSON Agonistes., 4

...een to any school higher than Dame Tedman’s: her acquaintance with profane literature hardly went beyond the rhymes she had worked in her large sample... ...as “Madam Cass,” the Squire’s wife. These circumstances exalted her inward drama in her own eyes, and deepened the emphasis with which she declared to...

...he manner of children, she had established relations almost human, certainly dramatic. There was an old haircloth sofa in especial, to which she had c... ...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... ...tions, and which reflected these subjective accidents in a manner sufficiently dramatic. Madame Merle had predicted to Mrs. Touchett that after their yo... ...and—or what her husband would make of her. This was only the first act of the drama, and he was determined to sit out the performance. His determinatio...