581. What three notable orators were New England men? 582. What great Russian novelist was at one time a bootmaker? 583. Whom did Matthew Arnold call "the ineffectual angel "? 584. Who was called "the prophet of Chelsea "? 585. Who was called "the prophet of Brantwood"? 586. What English woman of letters spoke of Lord Nelson as "the little lamiter who wielded England's might at sea"? 587. Who wrote " Jan Veddar's Wife"? 588. Who said, "An imaginative bootblack is lord of unskirted realms "? 589. For what is Chawton notable? 590. Who wrote "Prometheus Unbound"? 591. Who wrote "The Wood Beyond the World"? 592. Who wrote "Life on the Mississippi"? 593. For what is Copsham Cottage, Esher, England, noted? 594. What American poet's wife was buried on the anniversary of her wedding-day? 595. Who wrote "The Chambered Nautilus "? 596. Who wrote "The Jungle Books"? 597. Who said, "The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun"? 598. Who wrote to Whittier thus: "Let me say unhesitatingly that you have written the most beautiful schoolboy poem in the English language. I have just read it, as I was writing to you, and before I got through In School Days,' the tears were rolling from my eyes"? 599. What writer's burial-place in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, is surrounded by an arbor-vitæ hedge? 600. What New England writer spent a night in jail for refusing to pay a tax to support slavery in South Carolina? 601. What American poet was for a time a student at Manor-House School in Church Street, Stoke-Newington, England? 602. Who was the author of "The Barefoot Boy"? 603. What poet was born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, England? 604. Of whom did Josiah Gilbert Holland say: "I think of one whose genius was angelic, who swept all the chords of human passion with fingers that shook with the stress of their inspiration"? 605. Who wrote "Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp"? 606. What writer's home was at Farringford, on the Isle of Wight? 607. Who wrote in memory of his wife a poem beginning, "O Lyric Love"? 608. Who wrote "The Long White Seam"? 609. Who was made famous by his "Essay on Milton"? 610. Who said: It takes a soul To move a body,—it takes a high-souled man 611. Who said of Charles Dickens, "He has done more to ameliorate the condition of the English poor than all the statesmen Great Britain has ever sent to Parliament "? 612. What noted English man of letters studied art in Rome and Paris? 613. Who wrote "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy"? ̈ ̄` 614. Who is the leading writer of sea stories in England to-day? 615. Who wrote "Tales of a Grandfather"? 616. Who said: "If there is wickedness in the streets, your steps should shine with light of purity; if there is a cry of anguish, you should be there to still it "? 617. To whom did Whittier refer when he said The violet by its mossy stone, The primrose by the river's brim, And chance-sown daffodil, have found 618. What English writer contracted the opium habit from taking the drug to relieve toothache? 619. Who said: 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadow before. 620. What Scottish poet was a great society favorite? 621. Who wrote "Eben Holden "? 622. Who wrote "Mother Carey's Chickens"? 623. What English author immortalized his father in the famous Dr. Primrose, of the 66 'Vicar of Wakefield "? 624. What English essayist wrote his only romance to defray his mother's funeral expenses? 625. Who wrote "Diana of the Crossways"? 626. Why is Boxhill, Surrey, England, famous? 627. Who wrote "The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain "? 628. Who was the biographer of Samuel Johnson? 629. Where do we find the following lines: Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. 630. Of what two brothers has it been said that the one wrote fiction like a psychologist, and the other wrote psychology like a novelist? 631. Who said: Life is a jest, and all things show it; 632. Of what book did Dr. Johnson say: "Nobody ever laid it down without wishing it were longer"? 633. Who was the author of the line, "Westward the course of empire takes its way"? 634. For what is Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England, noted? 635. Who said: For truth is precious and divine, 636. Who wrote "Lycidas"? 637. Who wrote his finest poem in honor of St. Cecilia's Day, in a single night? 638. Who said: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em "? 639. What poet's grave remained unmarked for thirty years, and was then marked by a monument erected by Anne, Countess of Dorset? |