This book presents lectures and notes upon Shakespeare and other dramatists, including poetry, the drama and Shakespeare; order of Shakespeare's plays; notes on Shakespeare's plays from English history; and notes on some of the plays of Shakespeare, Johnson, Beaumont and Fletcher.

Gustave Dore's magnificent engravings for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are among the later works of the great French illustrator. The intensely evocative poem provided Doré with the long-awaited opportunity to convey limitless space on a gigantic scale, and he exploited the poem's fantastic range of atmosphere to the limits of its possibilities. The terrifying space of the open sea, the storms and whirlpools of an unknown ocean, the vast icy caverns of Antarctica, the hot equat...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement.It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning m...

The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. They cover topics drawn from both public and private life, and in each case the essays cover their topics systematically from a number of different angles, weighing one argument against another. Though Bacon considered the Essays "but as recreation of my other studies", he was given high praise by his contemporaries, even to the point of crediting him with having invented the essay form.

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Are these the only works of Providence in us? What words suffice to praise or set them forth? Had we but understanding, should we ever cease hymning and blessing the Divine Power, both openly and in secret, and telling of His gracious gifts? Whether digging or ploughing or eating, should we not sing the hymn to God: �

This book-collection file includes: The Age of Shakespeare by Swinburne, Bacon is Shake-speare by Durning-Lawrence, Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Nesbit, Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by Hazlitt, An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway by Rudd, Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain, The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris, Notes to Shakespeare volume 1 Comedies and volume 3 Tragedies by Samuel Johnson, The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote by Warner, The Philosophy of the P...

`Now listen with good will, as I go straight to my subject matter, in which you may hear the double sorrows of Troilus in his love for Criseyde, and how she forsook him before she died' Like Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Iseult, the names of Troilus and Criseyde will always be united: a pair of lovers whose names are inseparable from passion and tragedy. Troilus and Criseyde is Chaucer's masterpiece and was prized for centuries as his supreme achievement. The story of how Troil...

Immerse yourself in the life and literary reflections of one of the greatest poets and philosophers of the Romantic era with "Biographia Literaria" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This seminal work offers a captivating glimpse into Coleridge's life, thoughts, and artistic vision, providing readers with invaluable insights into the man behind the poetry.As Coleridge reflects on his life and experiences, questions arise: What influences shaped his poetic genius? And wha...

From the General Introduction: "Dr. Johnson's reaction to Shakespeare's tragedies is a curious one, compounded as it is of deep emotional involvement in a few scenes in some plays and a strange dispassionateness toward most of the others. I suspect that his emotional involvement took root when he read Shakespeare as a boy--one remembers the terror he experienced in reading of the Ghost in _Hamlet_, and it was probably also as a boy that he suffered that shock of horrified outrage and grief...