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Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella (Gilbert), 1844-
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : J.A. Hill & Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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ng of the vulgar, detailsand terms which shock and frighten one,** His prolific suggestionsswarm and multiply over the diseased tissue of a character, in thetainted spot of a heart, until, as in the description of the moraldecadence of Louis XV,, the imaginative reader shudders and stopsreading; for suggestion has suggested what it is unbearable to think. It is to the perfect happiness of his marriage to a second wife —an incomparable companion — that we owe that series of books whosedithyrambic strelro were poured out under the silvery light of acontinuous honey-moon, as a biographer expresses it: ^LOiseau,*^Llnsecte,* <LAmour,* < La Mer,* to which later a fifth, < La Mon-tagne,* was added; and which Taine says adds him to the threegreat poets of France during the century,— De Musset, Lamartine,and Hugo: ^^ for art and genius, his prose is worth their poetry.**The ^ Bible of Humanity * and some volumes of collected essays com-plete the series of.his published writings.
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BURNING OP JEANNE DARC. JULES MICHELET 9985 In 1870 the Franco-Prussian war called out his < France beforeEurope,* a passionate appeal to the common fraternity of all peoples.He was ardently engaged upon a history of the nineteenth century,his last return to his when he died in 1874 ofheart disease contracted during the Prussian invasion of his country.He lies buried in Pere la Chaise, where in youth he used to wanderamong the dead he loved so well; who, responding to the passionateevocation of his imagination, resumed their being before his mentalvision with such vivified reality, that in their turn they evoked fromhis heart the genius that was henceforth to be his life.

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