Identifier: historyprogresso09sand (find matches)
Title: The history and progress of the world
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907 Lamberton, John Porter, 1839-1917, joint author Morris, Charles, 1833-1922, joint author
Subjects: World history Philosophers Women Statesmen Statesmen Literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, T. Nolan
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verthat opinion. His descriptions are great and varied, andhe was able to concentrate scenes in a line. The latercantos of Childe Harold are of greater value than thosewhich gave him his first fame. Don Juan is perhapsthe fullest exhibit of his character and poetical power;a splendid epic with an inglorious hero. It is full ofsublime and exquisite descriptions, but does not hesitateto link these with vile and ignoble associations. The meter and method of treatment are borrowedfrom the Italian burlesque poets, but in matter the poem ishighly original; it is a succession of pictures of humanlife and society as he viewed them, with occasional satireor jesting comment. In spite of its lack of well definedplan, there is an artistic balance in its mixture of comedyand pathos. MOORE Thomas Moore, at one time eulogized as the mostbrilliant poet in England, is remembered chiefly by hispopular Irish Melodies, songs which have not lost alltheir charm. Besides his Celtic faculty of writing verses
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I I ENGLISH aa for singing, he was a lively conversationalist, and thusbecame a favorite with the Whig aristocracy at the be-ginning of the century. Born in Dublin in 1779, he early showed his literarytalent, and graduated at Trinity College in 1800. Goingto London with a free translation of Anacreon, he ob-tained permission to dedicate it to the Prince Regent,afterwards George IV. A year later an original collec-tion of licentious verse was published as The PoeticalWorks of the Late Thomas Little, for the indecency ofwhich he afterwards professed repentance. In 1803 anofficial post in the Bermudas was assigned to Moore,but he left it in charge of a deputy, and traveled in theUnited States. On his return to London he was wel-comed by the world of fashion and satirized the Ameri-cans. His Irish Melodies, adapted to ancient tunes,arranged by Sir John Stevenson, began to appear in1807, and many additions were made in later years.These fascinating amatory and patriotic effusions rescuedfr

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