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...early life of the historian was spent in exhaustive reading, and after a short and unprofitable period at Magdalen College, Oxford, he went abroad, staying for five years at Lausanne Switzerland, where he made the acquaintance of Voltaire and Madamoiselle Churchod, the mother of Madame de Stael. He went back to England at 21, only to return to the continent a few years later, visiting Rome and receiving there his inspiration to write Roman history...
...reference and research, "Le Dictionarire de l'Academie Francaise," Littre's Dictionary, Larousse's: "Dictionaire Universel" and "La Grande Encyclopedia." Among the complete sets are numbered those of Corneille, La Fontaine, La Rochefoucaud, Molicre, Racine, Madame de Levigne, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Concerdet, Diderot, Rousseau, Buffon, Beaumarchais, Chateaubriand, Mme, de Stael, LaMartine, Hugo, Dumas, Balzac, Taine and Daudet...
Romanticism was most successful in lyric poetry; naturally it was least so on the stage. Classic tragedy was dead. Shakespeare and Schiller were used as models. Mme. de Stael wrote "L'Allemagne," Stendhal wrote "Racine et Shakespeare." Victor Hugo in his "Preface de Cromwell" defined the drama as a mixture of the tragic and the comic with an historic stage setting and with out the three unities. But these are not the real signs of the romantic drama. In fact there was a style of play which was increasing in popular favor as tragedy declined; this was the melodrama. Romantic...
References : Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets, Lecture I. Edinburgh Review, Vol. 21, art. Madame de Stael sur la Litterature. Christian Examiner, Vol. 24, art. Influence of Christianity and Civilization on Epic Poetry. Shairp's Poetic Interpretations of Nature. Time, Third Tuesday in March...
...second forensic of the second section of the Senior class is as follows: "Is it true that, as the boundaries of science are enlarged, the empire of the imagination is diminished?" References: Hazlitt's Lectures on the English Poets, Lecture I. Edinburgh Review, Vol. 21, art., Madame de Stael sur la Litterature. Christian Examiner, Vol. 24, art., Influence of Christianity and Civilization on Epic Poetry. The forensic is to be handed in on the third Tuesday in January...