472. Who was called "the genial Charles"? 473. What English poet's father was called "Mad Jack"? 474. Who said: To me the meanest flower that blows can give 475. Who said: All my hurts My garden spade can heal. A woodland walk, Salve my worst wounds. 476. Who said: No life Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, 477. Who wrote "Songs of Seven "? 478. What American poet has been honored by the English people to the extent of having his bust placed in Westminster Abbey? 479. Who once said to Macaulay, "Well, any one can see that you are an honest, good sort of a fellow, made out of oatmeal"? 480. Who wrote the lines: Take Joy home, And make a place in thy great heart for her, QUESTIONS 481. Who is George Bendish? 37 482. Who applauded Pope for his sarcasm, and said, "When you think of the world, give it one more lash at my request"? 483. Who said of Edmund Burke, "If a man were to go by chance at the same time with Burke under a shed to shun a shower, he would say, 'This is an extraordinary man'"? 484. What English writer said: "At fifty years I commenced as an author. It is a whim that has served me longest and best, and will probably be my last "? 485. Who was termed "Scotia's Bard"? 66 486. Who wrote, Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal"? 487. What English poet was drowned by the capsizing of a boat in the Bay of Spezia? 488. What poet dictated the inscription for his gravestone a few days before his death? 489. Whose home was at Elleray, on the banks of Lake Windermere? 490. For what is Lasswade noted? 491. Who said of Macaulay, "The quantity of reading Tom has poured in, and the quantity of writing he has poured out, is astonishing"? 492. Who wrote, "Aurora Leigh"? "? 493. Who said, "I am a part of all I have met " 494. What American poet was the son of an actress? 495. What American writer wrote his poem, "The Dirge," in memory of his two brothers? 496. Who said: “Live as on a mountain. Let men see, let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live"? 497. Who wrote "Down Among Men"? 498. What three sisters all wrote novels? 499. Who said, "An acre of Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia"? 500. Who wrote "The Cricket on the Hearth "? 501. Who said of Bergson: "He is a philosopher upon whom the spirits of both literature and science have descended "? 502. Who said: We are immortal now and here, 503. Who has been called "the beloved poet of Georgia"? 504. Who said, "What is good is never too abundant "? 505. What Prime Minister of England first gained recognition as a novelist? 506. What great allegory was written while its author was in jail because of his religious faith? 507. What town library has an alcove devoted to the works of the men and women of letters of the town? 508. Of whom did Channing say, "I never meet that man without being cheered "? 509. Who said, "No legacy is so rich as honesty"? 510. What French writer traveled in America and wrote graphically of American scenery and Indian life? 511. What woman novelist, contemporary with Scott, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, wrote remarkably true novels of English country life, and what were they? 512. Who said: Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds, 513. Who wrote "Castilian Days"? And, as the path of duty is made plain, 515. What poet was called in England, "the American Byron "? 516. Whom did Theodore Roosevelt proclaim as "the greatest novelist of our age"? 517. Who said: Unto thee is given A life that bears immortal fruit, 518. Who is the most popular living English poet? 519. Who wrote "How the Other Half Lives"? 520. What was the Snark? 521. Who said of his own work, “I don't do it. I'm only the willow through which the whistle comes"? 522. What three notable Scotch writers of the present day have written stories of Scotch life? 523. What Boston building is said to be the most picturesque structure in the United States? 524. What noted literary character said, "My cradle was a covered wagon, pointed West"? 525. What literary man, in 1895, organized the Landmarks Club to raise funds for the preservation of the old Franciscan Missions of California? 526. What novelist, in his youth, gained the title of "the boy orator" because of his curbstone speeches on socialism? 527. Who has been termed "the poet of things divine "? 528. Who wrote "The Sugar-plum Tree"? 529. Who has been termed "the modern Froebel"? |