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id: 2647
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  of the Aeneid, for the sake of which, according to Mrs. Macaulay, the poem was originally designed, can nowhere be discovered


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id: 18851
title: Gibbon
author: Morison, James Cotter
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  GIBBON''S EARLY LIFE UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING OXFORD. GIBBON''S EARLY LIFE UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING OXFORD. The saving of his life during these dangerous years Gibbon occupied by his great work had been already gone over by Gibbon before approached his sixteenth year, a great change took place in his lower condition as places of education than at the time when Gibbon The lucid order and admirable literary form of Gibbon''s great work are this juvenile work of Gibbon has little merit. the old days when Gibbon was a boarder in Pavillard''s house, and the Up to the year 1750 no great historical work had appeared Gibbon as a whole, as the encyclopædic history of 1300 years, as the Lausanne, Gibbon had four years of unbroken calm and steady work, of These closing years of Gibbon''s life were not happy, through no fault


id: 14992
title: The Life of Froude
author: Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)
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  future Lord Chief Justice of England, was Froude''s first experiment 1859, left Froude the most famous of living English historians, and After her death Froude took for the first time a London house, and Froude knew the subject as Carlyle did not pretend to know it, and Froude''s History, the great work of his life, was completed in 1870. pronounced Froude''s "great book," as he called it, to be "a work of materials Froude wrote a History which any educated person can read At that time Froude was engaged, to Carlyle''s volume of the Life, Froude made up his mind to keep back Mrs. Carlyle''s letters, with her husband''s sketch of her, to suppress the On this occasion Mrs. Carlyle said that Froude had Mary Carlyle at once wrote to The Times, and accused Froude of can read Froude''s account of Carlyle''s early life without feeling History to Froude, like the world


id: 13583
title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
author: Carlyle, Thomas
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  Must lecture in America or write a book.--Wordsworth.--Sterling. one man of letters, his friend, the best mind he knew, whom Thanks, my kind friend, for the news you again send me. wishes to that new fair Friend of ours, whom one day we shall good wishes, a copy of his little work, lately published, on our I write the day after your letter comes, I ought to say, however, that about New-year''s-day I will send about New-Year''s-Day, the preceding letter. Almost a month ago there went a copy of a Book called _French a good book, I know,) I shall sustain with great glee the new hope, got the letter sent nearly a month ago, giving account of letters: and you are a good and generous man to write so many. Dear Friend,--Some four days ago I wrote you a long Letter, letter you had said too much good of my poor little arid book,--


id: 2647
title: Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1
author: Trevelyan, George Otto
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  WHEN publishing the Second Edition of Lord MACAULAY''S Life and Letters, spared no pains to inform me with regard to Lord MACAULAY''S work at eldest son--Lord Macaulay''s early years--His childish But, besides being a man of letters, Lord Macaulay was a statesman, a Lord Macaulay, it is impossible to suppress a wish that the great talker however, took a more unselfish view of the situation, and advocated Mr. Macaulay''s cause with firmness and good feeling. think,--at dinner at the house of his old friend, Sir John Macleod. Here I end my letter; a great deal too long already for so busy a man to I dined, and after dinner, like a good young man, I sate and read Bishop "Lord Macaulay''s great work was far too daring and original to be Within half a year after the time when you read this we shall be making


id: 2044
title: The Education of Henry Adams
author: Adams, Henry
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  Henry Adams never knew a boy of his generation to like Seward representing the Administration in the Senate took the lead; Mr. Adams took the lead in the House; and as far as a private secretary as Adams did, that no man living needed so much education as the new thousand young men like Henry Adams into the surf of a wild ocean, all sympathies, including Americans like young Adams whose standards were Never, in any man who wielded such power, did Adams meet anything like Young Adams thought Earl Russell a statesman of the old school, diplomatic education, and began for him the social life of a young man make up its mind what to do for them--time which Adams, at thirty years Adams did not feel Grant as a hostile force; like Badeau he saw new President of Harvard College wanted his help; but Adams knew


id: 6031
title: Memoirs of My Life and Writings
author: Gibbon, Edward
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  friends, they will be secreted from the public eye till the author who, at an advanced age, about the year 1761, died in her house. civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family Putney, I was delivered at the age of seven into the hands of Mr. John Kirkby, who exercised about eighteen months the office of my success his own mind, the natural world, the abstract sciences, and the best books in the English language; and if her reason was universities; and in the twenty-second year of his age, young Bayle almost every year I have perused with new pleasure, I learned to publication of my History fifteen years afterwards revived the and twenty years of age, who had read with taste, who thinks with been content with the more natural character of an English author. they return to England till some time after my father''s death.


id: 9784
title: Thomas Carlyle
author: Nichol, John
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  The following record of the leading events of Carlyle''s life and attempt appeared shortly after Carlyle''s death, more especially that of the _St. James''s Gazette_, giving the most philosophical brief summary of his CHAPTER VIII CARLYLE AS MAN OF LETTERS, CRITIC, AND HISTORIAN So much, and more, is to be said for Carlyle''s insistence that great men Carlyle proposed to begin married life in his mother-in-law''s vacant The remaining incidents of Carlyle''s Edinburgh life are few: a visit from Carlyle''s political works, _Past and Present_ and the _Latter-Day About this time Carlyle writes, "My friends think I have found the art of There is little in Carlyle''s life at any time that can be called completely to men like Burns, Byron, Heine, and Carlyle, less to the completely to men like Burns, Byron, Heine, and Carlyle, less to the CARLYLE AS MAN OF LETTERS, CRITIC, AND HISTORIAN Carlyle''s view that we should find a way to public life for


id: 13660
title: The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
author: Carlyle, Thomas
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  likeness.--Fifty years old.--Rides.--Emerson''s voice wholly delay.--Writing new book.--Delight in proposed bequest.--Advice have got a good friend of yours, a banking man, to promise that preceding letter:--"How many things this book of Carlyle gives us Dear Emerson, Some ten days ago came your Letter with a new Draft Dear Emerson,--There had been a long time without direct news world.--By the way, if that good Clark _like_ his business, let Dear Emerson,--Your two Letters* have both come to hand, the last little Boston Newspaper you send!* A small hatchet-faced, grayeyed, good-humored Inspector, who came with a Translated Dear Emerson,--We received your Letter* duly, some time ago, with Dear Emerson,--Your Letter came ten days ago; very kind, and at last returned all with this word, "If you write to Mr. Carlyle, you may say to him, that I _have_ read these books, Dear Emerson,--Three days ago I at last received your Letter;


id: 32089
title: Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D.
author: Mayer, Brantz
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  self-made man I do not mean to class Mr. Sparks with that large and clerical duty in Baltimore, he did a great deal of work in editing the In after years, when Mr. Sparks required a Life of Jonathan Edwards for his American Biography, was a great honor, won in ten years, by the Harvard student of 1811; Meanwhile, his attention to the great work--the Life and Writings of his other great national book, the Life and Works of Franklin, in ten letters from eminent men to General Washington from the time of his and, even in the last year of his life, he exclaimed, at times, "_I Although the life of Mr. Sparks as an author may be said to have success, at the time when Mr. Sparks gave himself to his large and of History: "Not that Mr. Sparks," said he, "limited himself to the


id: 39084
title: William Hickling Prescott
author: Peck, Harry Thurston
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  the early years of New England''s literary history, the parallel becomes examination at Harvard was at the time when Prescott came up as a A letter written by Prescott on August 23d, the day after he had passed not visit the theatre or meet the many interesting persons to whom Mr. John Quincy Adams, then American Minister to England, offered to present years, Prescott never acquired a faultless Spanish diction; but he wrote Years afterward, Prescott, in writing to a friend who had suffered a How thoroughly Prescott prepared himself for the writing of his book To the English criticisms Prescott naturally looked forward subject, it may be said that for all purposes of literary work Prescott years immediately following its publication, Prescott''s great work was This book appeared in the year of Prescott''s death, and he himself made Mr. Prescott''s collection of works relating to Mexican history, for young man, knew Prescott well, and to whom the reading of this book


id: 32626
title: Thomas Carlyle
author: Macpherson, Hector
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  been given in the book to the Scottish side of Carlyle''s life, the fact Professor Masson''s charming little book, "Carlyle Personally, and in his facts about Carlyle''s university life, sums up in these words: ''Without years, this is what Carlyle says of that anxious time: ''Well do I The Carlyles in course of time visited the Jeffreys at Craigcrook, the The last time Carlyle saw his father was a few days before leaving for In the eyes of thinkers like Carlyle, the great mechanical view of Nature and Man. Just as distasteful to Carlyle, and its material, activity.'' With Carlyle the secrets of Nature and Life contact with a writer like Carlyle, who not only gave to the mind great time, Carlyle said: ''I had never seen till now how beautiful, and what Carlyle intended, some time or other, writing a ''Life of Sterling,'' but Like the prophets of old, Carlyle


id: 45165
author: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)
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  New England, the meeting-house was the great geographical monument, to the meeting-house; for the tavern of those days was generally to school, but by the time I was ten years old I had learned to of New England country life and society at the time I speak of. occasionally worked in the field, in these hearty old federal times. This, let me observe, in those good old times, was a bird those days, during the severe season, was fully one man''s work. family, and was gathered to his fathers at a good old age, leaving After a time he came back, but said not a word. a long time the heart of the man was hard, and his ear deaf to her at the same time, days, months, nay years, have I struggled with the Peter Parley--a kind-hearted old man, who had seen much of the world,

title:
  Peter Parley''s Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley")


