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... heritage that have been too long allowed to run to waste: our language, our literature, and many other things pertaining to the great undefinable doma... ...need only note what that rich language has shrunk to on the lips, and in the literature, of the heterogeneous hundred millions of American citizens wh... ... as in the years before the war. Every sham and substitute for education and literature and art had steadily crowded out the real thing. “Get rich qui... ... cuts in spelling them; she would jealously have upheld the standards of its literature instead of lowering them to meet an increased “circulation.” I... ...icted under that name by French novelists and dramatists; but in truth every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the p... ...people for whom, and about whom, it is written— and none more so than French literature, the freest and frankest of all. The statement that the real F... ...her day of need. At ev ery stage in French history, in war, in politics, in literature, in art and in religion, women have played a splendid and a de... ...ate” business has almost everything to teach, not only in the way of art and literature, and all the graces of life, but also in the way of municipal ... ...what it is, is to pick out the words that preponderate in its speech and its literature, and then try to define the special meaning it gives them. The ...

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.... Had she from birth enjoyed a more favorable environment, she would have made literature or music. Instead, she was El Soo, daughter of Klakee Nah, a... ...ed Laborer” — a book that was hailed everywhere as an able contribution to the literature of progress, and as a splendid reply to the literature of di...

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...ous reason, and thinking of the book only. “I have little leisure for such literature just now. I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lat... ... this conception. Here was something beyond the shallows of ladies’ school literature: here was a living Bossuet, whose work would reconcile complete ... ... of her embroidery. A light bookcase contained duodecimo volumes of polite literature in calf, completing the furniture. “Yes,” said Mr. Brooke, “this... ...arriage, these being sub jects on which he felt himself amply informed by literature, and that traditional wisdom which is handed down in the genial ... ...orant of. You would hardly believe how little I have taken in of music and literature, which you know so much of. I wonder what your vocation will tur... ...cious, and Mr. Ned was satisfied that he had the very best thing in art and literature as a medium for “paying addresses”—the very thing to please a ni... ... said young Plym dale, a little cheered by this advantage. “Oh, I read no literature now,” said Lydgate, shutting the book, and pushing it away. “I r... ...d more like a ghost in his ghostly blue green world; the volumes of polite literature in the bookcase looked morn like immovable imitations of books. ... ... the privileges of a sublime rage which is an apology for every thing (in literature and the drama). Happily Rosamond did not think of commit ting a...

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..., or any other of those patriotic Libraries, at present the glory of British Literature;” might work revolutions in Thought; and so forth;—in conclusi... ...bottles alternated with bread crusts, coffee pots, tobacco boxes, Periodical Literature, and Bl¨ ucher Boots. Old Lieschen (Lisekin, ’Liza), who was h... ...lent, as it were unconscious, strength, which, except in the higher walks of Literature, must be rare. Many a deep glance, and often with unspeakable ... ...open, which indeed he is. Of his boundless Learning, and how all reading and literature in most known tongues, from Sanchoniathon to Dr. Lingard, from... ...o that joint stock vehicle of publication, “at present the glory of British Literature”? If so, the Library Editors are welcome to dig in it for thei... ...though a slight one, for Typography; therefore as an encouragement to modern Literature, and deserving of approval: nor is it without satisfaction tha... ...ndeed have reason to be thankful that hitherto there are other vents for our Literature, exuberant as it is.—Teufelsdr¨ ockh continues: “If such suppl... ...Journalistik; and so stumble on perhaps the most egregious blunder in Modern Literature! MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL 31 CHAPTER VII MISCELLANEOUS HISTOR... ...ate the whole habitable globe, and Timbuctoo itself is not safe from British Literature, may not some Copy find out even the mysterious basket bearing ...

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...TUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVER SITY HA VE JOINED THE AGITATION AGAINST IMMORAL LITERATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 TO A PO... ... STUDENTS OF OUR NEW UNIVERSITY HA VE JOINED THE AGITATION AGAINST IMMORAL LITERATURE WHERE, where but here have pride and Truth, That long to give th...