Byronic Hero Types and Proto

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U of Minnesota Press, 01.01.1999 - 204 Seiten
One hundred years of remarkable Minnesota stories are brought together for the first time in Minnesota's Twentieth Century. A collection of writings and interviews that originated with the popular feature "A Century of Stories" in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, this book reveals the progress of a courageous, industrious people and their changing state. Lavishly illustrating these recollections are indelible images--contemporary photographs of the storytellers, as well as historical views of street scenes, prohibition arrests, and landscapes--that reflect the transformations of the past one hundred.

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Introduction
3
Our Last Great Age of Heroes
14
PART ONE EIGHTEENTHCENTURY HERO TYPES
25
PART TWO ROMANTIC HERO TYPES
63
PART THREE BYRONIC HEROES
125
NOTES
203
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX
212
INDEX
218
Urheberrecht

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Seite 74 - The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Seite 142 - Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy ; but this clay will sink Its spark immortal, envying it the light To which it mounts, as if to break the link That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink.
Seite 120 - Thou art a symbol and a sign To Mortals of their fate and force ; Like thee, Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source ; And Man in portions can foresee His own funereal destiny...
Seite 170 - Philosophy and science, and the springs Of wonder, and the wisdom of the world, I have essay'd, and in my mind there is A power to make these subject to itself — But they avail not...
Seite 89 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Seite 142 - tis a base (') Abandonment of reason to resign Our right of thought — our last and only place Of refuge...
Seite 174 - ... symbol and a sign To Mortals of their fate and force ; Like thee, Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source ; And Man in portions can foresee His own funereal destiny ; His wretchedness, and his resistance, And his sad unallied existence...

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