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...Lady Austen, and soon there grew up a close friendship. Her lively spirits drove the melancholy from him. In one of his fits of depression, she related to him the story of John Gilpin, which amused him so much that during the night he wrote it in poetry and repeated it at breakfast. At the suggestion of his new friend, he began "The Task", which was published in 1785, immediately ensuring his reputation. It illustrates the light of religious yearning of the time, but is famous because of the beautiful and truthful descriptions of nature and of domestic scenes. Cowper...
...Slaughter of Austen College, Texas, won the $100 prize awarded by Sherman University, St. Louis, for the best essay on "The Construction of the Nicaraguan Canal...
...exposition on "Jane Austen's Method of Treating Character," is due in English A, next Saturday...
...Goethe saw things as did no one else. Browning's greatness lies in the results of his observation. These are the great names in the literary history of the world. The same statements, however, are true of the lesser characters; - Scott, Burns, Gray, Wordsworth, Dickens, Thackeray and Jane Austen. The power of observation is the pre-eminent characteristic of them all. Sympathy and enthusiasm accompany all close observation and genius may be described as the labour of untiring observation. Nor is this power great in works of fiction only. In science Agassiz and Darwin were peculiarly gifted in this direction...
...book there is a complete list of all biography and criticism of Jane Austen. [The Story of Jane Austen's Life, by Oscar Fay Adams. 16 mo. pp. 277. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and Company...