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Page 41 - Europe at that time was thrilled with joy. France standing on the top of golden hours, And human nature seeming born again.
Page 40 - It were difficult to name any thing else of human workmanship so thoroughly transfigured with "the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.
Page 39 - The English Novel. Raleigh's The English Novel. Masson's British Novelists and Their Styles. Forsyth's Novels and Novelists of the Eighteenth Century. Minto's Literature of the Georgian Era. PERIODS AND DEPARTMENTS — Continued. Seccombe's Age of Johnson.
Page 55 - Peg Woffington, The Cloister and the Hearth, Never Too Late to Mend, Griffith Gaunt, Hard Cash, Put Yourself in his Place.
Page 58 - Popular Ballad, by FB Gummere, Literature of Roguery, by FW Chandler, Tragedy, by AH Thorndike, Lyric, by FE Schelling, etc.
Page 32 - ... professional purveyors of the dominant philosophy who were behind the accepted ideas of the Spectator. John Locke (1632-1704) was the leading theorist of the Revolution. We have observed his influence on religious toleration. His chief work, An Essay concerning Human Understanding, was published in 1690 and had a great influence in France as well as in England. It helped to correct established errors and to get rid of prejudice, and if Locke's thought had some striking limitations, particularly...
Page 12 - Antony obtains permission from the conspirators to speak at Caesar's funeral. At the funeral Antony's oration excites the people to overthrow Brutus and Cassius.