Adapted from English Literature: Its History and Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. Long

It is common opinion that literature is a mere play of imagination, like a new novel, but without any practical importance. However, this is not true. Literature preserves the ideals of a people; and ideals such as love, faith, duty, friendship, and freedom are the part of human life most worthy of preservation. The Greeks were a marvelous people; yet, of all their mighty works we cherish only a few ideals—ideals of beauty in perishable stone, and ideals of truth in imperishable prose and poetry. It was the ideals of the Greeks, Hebrews, and Romans, preserved in their literature, which made them what they were and determined their value to future generations. Our democracy is based on the ideal of a free and equal manhood, preserved as the most precious heritage in every great literature from the Greeks to the Anglo-Saxons.1

1. a group of people from Germanic tribes and British origin who lived in Great Britain from the 5th century
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Replace the word heritage with a synonym.
A.
history
B.
tradition
C.
ornament
D.
poetry

what makes a hero is someone who tries and acres and then to save people and it’s not their jobs to save them just a normal person that has no experts of saving people would jump in to action without it twice about doing it. me that’s the defection of a hero!

a personal narrative essay is about a personal experience, so it is usually written in the first person. to maximize its impact, the essay should: be written to have an emotional impact on the reader. include a lot of references to sensory perceptions and hope i

english novelist and poet, the eldest of the three brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of english literature.

she enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831, aged 14 years. she left the year after to teach her sisters, emily and anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. in 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of currer, ellis and acton bell. her first novel the professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel jane eyre was published in 1847. the sisters admitted to their bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in london literary circles.

brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. she became pregnant shortly after her marriage in june 1854 but died on 31 march 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

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