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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... ...hat seem doomed to condemnation by all the sages of our modern imaginative literature. An English gov- erness, or even an American governess, if, inde...

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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... ... contracted in Italy. Such had been the sole link between North Dormer and literature, a link piously commemorated by the erection of the monument whe... ...rs that seemed related to the subject. Never had her ignorance of life and literature so weighed on her as in reliving the short scene of her discomfi...

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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... ...nal attractions. He had no profession: he earned nothing. But he talked of literature and music, he had a passion for old folk-music, collecting folk-...

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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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...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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...is Custom House sketch has a certain propriety, of a kind always recognised in literature, as explaining how a large portion of the following pages ca... ...ce with men of altogether different qualities, and lever murmur at the change. Literature, its exertions and objects, were now of little moment in my ... ...scriptions, the result, I honestly believe, would have been some thing new in literature. Or I might readily have found a more serious task. It was a... ...a folio tome, probably of the Chronicles of England, or other such substantial literature; even as, in our own days, we scatter gilded volumes on the ... ...e table. It must have been a work of vast ability in the somniferous school of literature. The profound depth of the minister’s repose was the more re...

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... deal of him, have studied his sentiments and heard his opinion on subjects of literature and taste; and, upon the whole, I venture to pronounce that ...

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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 ... ... of elemen- 105 Charlotte Brontë tary works, and several volumes of light literature, poetry, biography, travels, a few romances, &c. I suppose he ha... ... vouchsafed to the fortunate public of those days—the golden age of modern literature. Alas! the readers of our era 376 Jane Eyre are less favoured. ...

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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... ...ents. Have we not seen libraries working off the word “pictur- esque” when literature would have cut the throat of the word “fantastic”? Fiscal genius...

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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... ...d. Most of these letters stand among the finest monuments of our political literature. Thus he presented the singular spectacle of a President who, in... ...nge at large, in a cursory and indiscriminate way, through wide domains of literature. This youth’s mind, at any rate, was thoroughly saturated with B...