Excerpt from The French Revolution and English Literature: Lectures Delivered in Connection With the Sesquicentennial Celebration of Princeton University The substance of this volume was embodied in lectures given in Trinity College, Cambridge, when I had the honor to hold the Clark Lecture ship in English Literature. On receiving the honor of an invitation from the authorities of Princeton University to deliver a series of lec tures in connection with the Sesqui-centennial Celebration, I revised my material and made some additions. It is the wish of those who organized and carried out that brilliant Celebra tion that these lectures should be published; and I am further encouraged to publication by the great kindness of many of my American fellow students, and by the generous welcome which I received from an American audience. I think of my days spent in the autumn of last year at that Old and distinguished seat of learning, which has contributed so much to the best life of the United States, with a feeling of happy gratitude. In these lectures I go over some ground which I have previously traversed; the point of View, perhaps, gives unity to the results of various studies. I do not attempt to prove a thesis. I have tried to enter in a disinterested way into the spirit of each writer who comes within the scope of my subject, and to let the meanings of the French Revolution, as they entered into English literature, expound themselves. To pre sent some important figures on a background of history - history of ideas rather than of events - has been my aim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.