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Certain English Authors Considered as Masters of Style. Course for freshmen. Special subject: Tobias Smollet. Prof. A. S. Hill. Sever 11, 9 a.m. This lecture concludes the course...
Professor Hill's lectures to the freshmen began on Saturday. This course will be entirely different from the ones formerly delivered. Among others, there will be lectures on Dryden, Poe, Richardson and Smollet...
...rather small, but small as it is, we should be glad to use it more. Books can be taken out only on Saturday, to be returned Monday. Probably remembering their own youthful tastes, the authorities have forbidden the reading of any such books as Roderick Random, or Tristram Shandy; Smollet, Fielding, and Sterne are tabooed, and the principal works provided for our perusal are the Patent-Office Reports, and the Congressional Record...
...time, that poem should possess a higher literary value than any poetry that Dr. Samuel Johnson ever wrote. The work of English VII. is intended to examine the authors of a century. That century covered the lives of such writers as Swift, Addison, Steele, Young, Thomson, Richardson, Fielding, and Smollet, of whom no notice has been taken in the work of the course. While the great beauty and grandeur of the "Vanity of Human Wishes" is very striking, we question if the poem merits, to the exclusion of many other notable literary works, the amount of study which has been...