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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... ...taught during seven years, and his genius was encour- aged in its bent for literature; skill in speaking and in writing being especially fostered in t... ...sed for his irregularities. In Paris his unsteadiness and his addiction to literature caused his father to rejoice in getting him housed in a country ... ...y formed design to associate the name he took with work of high attempt in literature—that Francois Marie Arouet, aged twenty-four, first called himse... ...his time seems to have given into a taste quite opposite to that of polite literature, but perhaps the mode of thinking may be revived in a little tim... ... soever it may be to him; and this study leads naturally to that of polite literature. Mankind in general speak well in their respective professions. ... ...sy and frivolous, genius, was the first who shone in this aurora of French literature. Had he come into the world after those great geniuses who sprea... ...y or threescore persons to range in. That of London mixes indiscriminately literature with physics; but methinks the founding an academy merely for th... ...academy, a circumstance that was of the most fatal consequence to po- lite literature. The members of this academy would have had a very great advanta...

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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 ... ... true Bohemian, a creature lost to view under the imagi- nary Bohemians of literature, is exactly described by such a principle of life. The Bohemian ... ... go armed into the field of tillage; and if we have not a return of ballad literature, the local press at least will celebrate in a 83 Lay Morals hig... ... in presence of quite a serious, if quite a miniature division of creative literature; and sometimes we have the lesson embodied in a sober, everyday ... ...cature; and the fable begins to take rank with all other forms of creative literature, as something too ambitious, in spite of its minia- ture dimensi... ...st, there is ever a sense as of something a little out of place. A form of literature so very innocent and primitive looks a 109 Lay Morals little ov...

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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... ...ry a hundred times over. Mr. Esmond, forced to be quiet, betook himself to literature for a relaxation, and composed his comedy, whereof the prompter’...

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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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...ulator program and a Boeing 767 flight deck video, together with attendant literature;Ali had all these items shipped to his employer’s address. Jarra... ...Malek, ed., America in an Arab Mirror: Images of America in Arabic T ravel Literature:An Anthology (Palgrave, 2000). 13. For a good introduction to Qu...

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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... ... 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...