Literary and General Lectures and Essays

· 1875

Contents: {0} The Stage as it was Once Thoughts on Shelley and Byron Alexander Smith and Alexander Pope Tennyson Burns and his School The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art On English Composition On English Literature Grots and Groves Hours with the Mystics Frederick Denison Maurice: In Memoriam Let us think for a while upon what the Stage was once, in a republic of the past--what it may be again, I sometimes dream, in some republic of the future. In order to do this, let me take you back in fancy some 2314 years--440 years before the Christian era, and try to sketch for you--alas! how clumsily--a great, though tiny people, in one of their greatest moments--in one of the greatest moments, i…

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