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INTERMISSION OF FIVE MINUTES.8. Irvah Lester Winter, The Prisoner of Chillon. - Byron...
Burnett, Liberty and Union; Daniel Webster. Hutchins, Donatello's Statue of St. George. Rogers. The Puritan Principle; Wendell Phillips. Santayana. The Prayer of Achilles to his Mother; Homer. Von Klenz, The Parting of Hector and Andromache; Homer. Webster, Daniel O'Connell; Wendell Phillips. Winter, The Prisoner of Chillon; Byron. Bowen, Cambyses and the Macrobion Bow; Paul H. Hayne. A. C. Coolidge, The Greek Revolution; Henry Clay. W. L. Currier. Abolition in 1830; W. L. Garrison, Hamilton, Home Rule; W. E. Gladstone. Stedman, Against Whipping in the Navy; Commodore Stockton. Sternbergh, A Defence of Massachusetts; Anson Burlingame. J. E. Walker...
...appreciate Emerson's position in the world of modern thought, it is necessary to study the philosophical attitude of his contemporaries. The nineteenth century is characterized by pessimism, and it is chiefly through the abandonment of faith in the revelation of the bible, that such men as Voltaire, Byron, Tennyson, Swinburne, Goethe and DeMusset, were lead into this line of thought. Poets are quoted as examples, for more than all other men they give expression to the thought of their times...
Lord Houghton, at the Scott Centenary, said of the world's great litterateurs, that they have seldom left descendants. England has no Shakespeare, no Milton, no Bacon, no Newton, no Pope, no Byron; Italy has no Dante, no Petrarch, no Alfieri, no Ariosto; Germany has no Goethe, no Schiller, no Heine; and France has no Montaigne, no Voltaire, and no Descartes...
...Harrow that Lord Byron prepared for college, and he has commemorated the beauties of the place and his love for it in several poems. A verse from a poem, on the occasion of a visit to Harrow in after years, illustrates somewhat amusingly his life there...