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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races... →
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names... →
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man... →
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not... →
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all... →
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of... →
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable... →
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in... →
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable... →
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