Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred years, debating remains its raison d'etre. The first inter-collegiate contest in which it engaged was in 1829, when the representatives of the Cambridge Union were met at Oxford. William Edward Gladstone, then President of the Union, arranged this meeting. The motion on this occasion read, 'that Shelley as a poet was superior to Byron." The Oxford men defended creditably their late undergraduate...
When the Romantic movement became too saccharine, it was dispatched from the world with some promptness. It takes a genius to be convincingly romantic. The nineteenth century gave birth to Tennyson, Keats, Shelley and a few others, but as the years wore on these men dies, and the century, full of honorable years, could produce no more to take their places. As a result men grew tired first of the lesser poets who labored and brought forth exceedingly diminutive mice and then of the whole movement and what it stood...
Captain Christopher Columbus peered through the South American underbrush and was astonished to see a pair of natives bouncing a rubber ball. Three centuries later Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley could make his erasures with a new-fangled device called a rubber. Two generations after that a Mr. Farris was collecting rubber seeds from Brazil to plant in Ceylon, East India and Polynesia, and Chemist Greville Williams had just discovered that rubber and isoprene were polymers. Then a Frenchman and an American made the plant almost indispensable and the War set half a dozen, nations to work trying to find...
...Dramatic Works of P. B. Shelley," Professor Murray, Harvard...
...unity and beauty. . . . Life is complicated. It is not simple enough." Echoing critics might apply the same criticism to Maurois' Lyautey: might add that Maurois has told much of Lyautey's achievements, little of the simple facts of his life. Other (translated) books: Ariel: The Life of Shelley, Byron, The Life of Disraeli, Aspects of Biography, Voyage to the Island of the Articoles, The Weigher of Souls (TIME...