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Excerpt from Ralegh in Guiana: Rosamond and a Christmas MasqueThese essays in dramatic verse are made in a manner common to all the Elizabethan play wrights. The better one knows these writers, the better one understands that they were really translators into terms of speech and action of material which they found in narrative form. Among the reasons which moved me to attempt something in their manner was a desire, when I was lecturing about t...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Duchess Emilia a RomanceHe was my kinsman. To be sure, I never saw him. When I was born he was already dead. When I was old enough to hear his name, he was Spoken of as an erratic person, whose unspecified but singular behavior had been by no means what should have been looked for from a respectable American. Our people were men of affairs, who thought more about cotton than about poetry. As for romance or mystery, I doubt tha...

Excerpt from English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell InstituteThese two traits the one indicative of rather sur prising ignorance of the nature of the matter in hand, the other of a profound error are what has prompted me to prepare this book. Year by year I have seen more and more clearly that although the work of a teacher or a technical critic of style concerns itself largely with the correction of erratic detail, the really...

Excerpt from William Shakespere: A Study in Elizabethan LiteratureThe purpose of this study is to present a coherent view of the generally accepted facts concerning the life and the work of Shakspere. Its object, the common one of serious criticism, is so to increase our sympathetic knowledge of what we study that we may enjoy it with fresh intelligence and appreciation. The means by which we Shall strive for this end will be a constant effort...

Excerpt from The Temper of the Seventeenth Century in English Literature: Clark Lectures Given at Trinity College, Cambridge in the Year 1902-1903Having done so, I thought for a good while that, before venturing to print any of this material, I had best rewrite it, restoring the proportions of the orig inal plan. Various circumstances have prevented such rewriting, until it has become evident that the lectures must either appear as they were g...

Excerpt from The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to DanteI. Historical Traditions. 179. II. Cicero, 190. III. Cesar. 200. IV. Lucretius. 206. V. Catullus. 218. VI. Sallust. 219. VII. Virgil, 221. VIII. Horace. 248.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of...

Stelligeri and Other Essays Concerning America is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hanse...

Excerpt from A History of Literature in AmericaWhen it was proposed that Wendell's Literary History 0} America should be reprinted in a school edition, it was clear to us that for such use.the book needed thorough revision. Many passages, which properly found place in a book intended for general reading, involved expressions of opinion obviously unsuitable for schools. In prepar ing this school version, our object has accordingly been to omit ...

Excerpt from Liberty, Union and DemocracyAt least, the lectures in which I touched on this aspect of America proved to be among those which were most helpful to my French hearers, who desired to understand what man ner of men we Americans are. And it has seemed to me that perhaps some of my countrymen, too, might be glad to consider, in this broadly general way, those national ideals which we have come to feel most indisputably our own, most s...

Excerpt from Cotton Mather: The Puritan PriestI have not commended any person, but when I have really judged, not only that he deserved it, but also that it would be a benefit unto posterity to know wherein he de served it, yett I have left unmentioned some cen surable occurrences in the story of our Colonies, as things no less unuseful than improper to be raised out of the grave, wherein Oblivion hath now buried them.About the PublisherForgot...

Stelligeri and Other Essays Concerning America is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hanse...

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Excerpt from The France of Today This school, another friend writes, ought in no wise to be grouped with the two others, for it is completely private, and in its private capac ity it grants degrees, which have moral, though unofficial, weight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott...

Excerpt from Stelligeri and Other Essays Concerning America The change came none too soon. Harvard College, to be sure, has always been tme to what remains its oldest and strongest tradition - that every man and eveiy generation has an inalien able right to think. Thereby the men and the generations make their conclusions - no matter how orthodox - impregnably their own. The deep conservatism which has preserved this heretical tradition for a...