 For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man : also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 61904Full view - About this book
 | Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - Readers - 1906 - 392 pages
...is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man ; also it may be said there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but...is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. 166 GREECE. GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, sixth Lord Byron of Rochdale, was born in London, Jan. 22, 1788.... | |
 | Charles Elisher Blakeman - Authors, American - 1906 - 166 pages
...further says, "There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; and there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but...is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed." Terence says, "My advice is to consult the lives of other men as we would a looking-glass, and from... | |
 | Walter Ashbel Sellew - China - 1907 - 350 pages
...nature the most universally pleasant, and the nn:ost universally profitable, of all reading;" also that ''There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded,...is a heroic poem, of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed." These statements being true, whoever writes a good biography confers an inestimable benefit upon his... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1907 - 852 pages
...praise for this apparently faithful record ; for, as Carlyle has said in words now familiar to many, " There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but...is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed." PERCY F. BICKNELL. THE TEACHING OF ELKMENTARY ECONOMICS.* Few fields of college and university activity... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1907 - 856 pages
...praise for this apparently faithful record ; for, as Carlyle has said in words now familiar to many, " There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or imrhymed." PERCY F_ BICKNELL. THE TEACHING OF ELEMEXTARY ECONOMICS.* Few fields of college and university... | |
 | Cornelius Willet Gillam Hyde - Minnesota - 1907 - 204 pages
...poetry in his nature. Carlyle says something like this in an essay on Walter Scott. 'There is no life of man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.' But we are drifting toward sentiment and philosophy. To change the subject, I wish you would walk with... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1908 - 352 pages
...no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man : also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but...is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. It is a plan one would prefer, did it otherwise suit ; which it does not, in these days. Seven volumes... | |
 | David Davies - Bible - 1909 - 352 pages
...; but a transcript, nevertheless, from real life and actual fact. Carlyle in one of his essays says that " there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded,...is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed." We too readily assume that history or biography can only be written in prose. According to that theory... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Books and reading - 1909 - 484 pages
...no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man: also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but...is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. It is a plan one would prefer, did it otherwise suit ; which it does not, in these days. Seven volumes... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 pages
...no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man : also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but...is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. It is a plan one would prefer, did it otherwise suit ; which it does not, in these days. Seven volumes... | |
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