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The springtime glory of adventure and the autumnal longing for return come together, and the poet, in a more spiritual sense than Wordsworth's skylark, becomes true to the kindred points of heaven and love by disclosing that they are the same.

End of lecture one Lecture two of six lectures on literature by C.H. Herford This LibriVox recording is in the public domain The bearing of English studies upon the national life An address delivered to the members of the Manchester branch of the English Association March 4, 1910 Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen Goethe English is, whatever else may be said of it or against it, one of the most plastic, the most protean of studies.

It will shrivel up into something very near the insignificance and aridity of dust, or expand until it touches the heights and the depths of humanity.

English grammar, analysis and parsing are perhaps of all subjects those in which the natural vitality has been most nearly crushed out by scholastic pedantry, and even a play of Shakespeare, treated as a preserve for hard words, is not much better.

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The Normality of Shakespeare Illustrated in His Treatment of Love and Marriage.

The English Association, Pamphlet Number Forty-Seven, September 1920.

The greater part of this paper was originally published for the Shakespeare Tercentenary 1916 in the Norwegian Review Edda, to which the writer's acknowledgments for permission to reprint are hereby tendered.