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Download or read book The Pursuits of Literature Or What You Will Vol 2 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pursuits of Literature, or What You Will, Vol. 2: A Satirical Poem in Dialogue; With Notes Vitreo bibit ille Pria/zo. Juv. Sat. 4. See Mr. Knight's Essay on the Worship of Priapus, and my note 011 it in the first part ofthis Poem. P. 17. 2d edit. 8vc. 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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book Outline of the Philosophy of English Literature Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Greenough White and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Outline of the Philosophy of English Literature, Vol. 1 Before and above all its relics stands the epic of Beowulf, the solitary finger of the sun that rises from the Saxon plain to take rank among the mighty monuments of world literature. 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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Sketches of English Literature Vol 1 of 2 written by François-René Chateaubriand and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketches of English Literature, Vol. 1 of 2: With Considerations on the Spirit of the Times, Men, and Revolutions This language of the age of Augustus - I know not at what date to place Quintus Cur tius - became as it is degenerated, the energetic language of Tacitus, Lucian, Seneca, Martial; the copious language of Pliny the elder; the flowery language of the younger Pliny; the saucy language of Suetonius, the violent of Juvenal, the Obscure of Persius, the inflated or flat of Statius and Silius Italicus. 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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book On Contemporary Literature Classic Reprint written by Stuart Pratt Sherman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On Contemporary Literature Persistent fallacy of criticism. Holding the critic's opinions to be obligatory upon other readers, says one of Professor Dewey's followers in an interestingly anar chical treatise on The Social Criticism of Literature, is very like fiat money - easy to issue but sometimes harder to realize upon. No power on earth can make a book really valuable to me if it is not so. 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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book Chamber s Cyclopaedia of English Literature Vol 1 written by Robert Chambers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chamber's Cyclopaedia of English Literature, Vol. 1: A History, Critical and Biographical of Authors in the English Tongue From the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, With Specimens of Their Writings Professor Woodberry has written the section on early American literature, and the greater American authors have been discussed by other American writers - Emerson by President Schurman Hawthorne and Holmes, Longfellow and Lowell, Whitman and Whittier, Thoreau, Poe, and others indicated in the list prefixed to the third volume, by the Rev. John White Chadwick; Parkman by Professor C. H. Hull; Prescott and Motley by Miss Ruth Putnam. 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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Art of Literature written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Art of Literature: A Series of Essays 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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book Epochs of English Literature Vol 7 written by J. C. Stobart and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Epochs of English Literature, Vol. 7: The Johnson Epoch An Age of Prose - Hitherto our Epochs have always taken their names from the great poets who have dominated the literary world for the time being. In the previous volume we saw, truly, that the essayist, Addison, divided the kingdom with Pope, the poet. Here, too, the foremost characters, Johnson and Goldsmith, wrote poetry as well as prose. Poetry, unquestionably the senior branch Of the service Of letters, still holds its prior right to fame, though in this particular Epoch prose bears the palm both for variety and excellence. The Drama, now for the second time reaching greatness in Goldsmith and R. B. Sheridan, is a prose drama. In this age, for the first and last time, Oratory becomes a notable branch Of English literature in the hands Of Sheridan, Burke, and Grattan, not to mention Fox and Pitt. This age, also, witnesses the vigorous birth Of another branch Of Prose, namely, the Novel, with such writers as Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Goldsmith. In Hume, Robertson, and, above all Gibbon, the science of History made a real contribution to prose literature. The Essay, in Dr. Johnson's Rambler, continues its importance from the last Epoch. Thus, in a word, we have five great divisions Of Prose, all vigorously in action. It is not to be wondered if Poetry is suffering an eclipse under all this brilliance. In our last Epoch we found. 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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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