Syllabi for the Academic Year 1904/05-1905/06 |
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111 South Fifteenth 15 cents Abt Vogler American Society Andrea del Sarto birds Caponsacchi Cecil F cents 10 cents cents The American century Chapters character Charles Darwin Charlotte Brontë CLASS AND ESSAY Cleon colonies Compare Contrast criticism Darwin DISCUSSION DIVINE COMEDY dramatic Edward Howard Griggs Emerson Empire England English ESSAY SUBJECTS ethical Europe Expansion of England Extension Lectures Syllabus Extension of University feudal France Franklin Frederick French genius German Grail Hawthorne's History human India influence interest Italy Kelly Miller labor Legend literary Literature London Longfellow Lord Meredith ministry modern moral Napoleon novel novelists Papers Paracelsus Parsifal Philadelphia poem poet poetic poetry political Pompilia problem QUESTIONS Rabbi Ben Ezra relation religious Revolution Robert Browning Romance Russia Siegfrid Six Lectures social South Fifteenth Street spirit story Students theory tion truth University Extension Lectures W. E. B. DuBois Wagner Warren Hastings Whitman
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Page 5 - She does her business of delineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously well; there is a Chinese fidelity, a miniature delicacy in the painting: she ruffles her reader by nothing vehement, disturbs him by nothing profound: the Passions are perfectly unknown to her; she rejects even a speaking acquaintance with that stormy Sisterhood...
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Page 4 - Talking of Meredith, I have just re-read for the third and fourth time The Egoist. When I shall have read it the sixth or seventh, I begin to see I shall know about it. You will be astonished when you come to re-read it; I had no idea of the matter • — human, red matter he has contrived to plug and pack into that strange and admirable book. Willoughby is, of course, a pure discovery; a complete set of nerves, not heretofore examined, and yet running all over the human body — a suit of nerves....