Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . 1612 lORS itulations on his hale and hearty ;!1 of flowers of the classic tradi- ;cr of the earth, he has been carried ? ? ? of his --of A extravagances ot hero-worship tremblingly nearto the sub- -c, the almost equally inevi- ;>n of \ictor Hugo was of iiltogether, andwith a noble a race, Waller Scott occupied a ? ? all the greater had he lived oe taken into consideration ; lei to the eminence of the great iie world. • --^ .iKcfi the foundatio
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 . 1612 lORS itulations on his hale and hearty ;!1 of flowers of the classic tradi- ;cr of the earth, he has been carried ? ? ? of his --of A extravagances ot hero-worship tremblingly nearto the sub- -c, the almost equally inevi- ;>n of \ictor Hugo was of iiltogether, andwith a noble a race, Waller Scott occupied a ? ? all the greater had he lived oe taken into consideration ; lei to the eminence of the great iie world. • --^ .iKcfi the foundations This has beens, favorable and otherwise; noin some cases has beeni so long a time; any dis-Aould interfere with the :i n m the faith ? • ;i was I-,->h » K/. ,.-.* lie • in so cl :stic a We .e the v^^ ? uc prac- ^ but little .evances, have . for this easy ric and splen- ihe world has i)atriotic fury, the ith which -Luiic of Victor val records of his have died away, as indeed in iatribes, these burning lava- air j KOHi FT?.OM Goupil ft ( VICTOR HUGO 163 streams, will be of little more importance than the dustiest mdmoires pour ser-vir —materials from which the historian, with much smoothing down and apol-ogies for the pyrotechnics of a past age, will take here and there a vivid touch toillustrate his theories or brighten his narrative. They will retain, too, a certainimportance as autobiography. But fortunately the great mass of the work whichVictor Hugo has left behind him can be separated from the polemics of his troub-led age and fiery temper. It is not in any sense a peaceful literature. Conflictis its very inspiration. The struggle of human misery with all the confusing andoverbearing forces of life ; of poverty with the requirements and oppressions ofwealth ; of the small with the great ; of the people with tyrants; of Man withFate—these are his subjects, and he is never an impartial historian. He is onthe side of the weak in every com
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