But, to reduce this narrative to credibility, it is necessary that admiration should give place to inquiry, and that it be discovered what proficiency in literature is expected from a student, requesting to be admitted into a Dutch university.

The real reward of Literature is in the sympathy of congenial minds, and is precious in proportion to the elevation of those minds, and the gravity with which such sympathy moves: the admiration of a mathematician for the MECANIQUE CELESTE, for example, is altogether higher in kind than the admiration of a novel reader for the last "delightful story."

We are quite aware that a large portion of this literature is trash.

Memorable, too, in this branch of literature is Harington's Apologie for Poetry (1591), prefixed to his translation of the Orlando Furioso.

In the broadest sense, perhaps, literature means simply the written records of the race, including all its history and sciences, as well as its poems and novels; in the narrower sense literature is the artistic record of life, and most of our writing is excluded from it, just as the mass of our buildings, mere shelters from storm and from cold, are excluded from architecture.

English literature is also a combination of French and Saxon elements.

The great names of the period are numerous and significant, but literature is strangely silent.

Morris's interest in Icelandic literature is further shown by his Sigurd the Volsung, an epic founded upon one of the old sagas, and by his prose romances, The House of the Wolfings, The Story of the Glittering Plain, and The Roots of the Mountains.

(2) The tendency of literature is strongly ethical; all the great poets, novelists, and essayists of the age are moral teachers.

" English literature is of preëminent worth in helping to supply that thirst.

Why, literature is full of his heroism.

The reason why Literature is in such a bad plight nowadays is simply and solely that people write books to make money.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who has descended upon earth to soften and to charm all human evils.

Literature is a perpetual source opened to us; but the Fine Arts present an unploughed field, and an originality of character ...

The whole meaning of literature is simply to cut a long story short; that is why our modern books of philosophy are never literature.

I do not think that any such literature is found in any other country.

The perpetual danger of literature is of becoming rhetorical; and hardly fares vigor of thought when long words and periods are preferred to short ones, and when the native shape and properties of ideas are less cared for than the abundant drapery.

He has had the assistance also of men whose acquaintance with homiletic literature is very extensive, whose critical judgments are sound and reliable and who may be regarded as experts in this branch of knowledge.

Literature is a large word; it may mean everything written with letters or printed in a book.

Roman literature is full of anecdotes about him and his wise and witty sayings.

"Of the majesty of the falling forests the book is eloquent, and its place in the history of our literature is secure.

This trivial romantic literature is not especially plebeian: it is simply human.

It is said, for example, that a vast amount of English grammar and literature is picked up in the course of learning Latin and Greek.

Ideal literature is the treasury of such genius in the past; here, as I said in the beginning, the wisdom of the soul is stored; and art, in all its forms, is immortal only in so far as it has done its share in this same labour of illumination, persuasion, and command, forecasting the spirit to be, companioning the spirit that is, sustaining us all in the effort to make ideal order actual in ourselves.

The majority of Semitic scholars are now of the opinion that the origin of this early literature is foreign.