English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History / Designed as a Manual of Instruction

by Henry Coppée

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History.

Designed as a Manual of Instruction.

By

Henry Coppée, LL.D.,
President of the Lehigh University.

The Roman Epic abounds in moral and poetical defects; nevertheless it remains the most complete picture of the national mind at its highest elevation, the most precious document of national history, if the history of an age is revealed in its ideas, no less than in its events and incidents.—Rev. C. Merivale.

History of the Romans under the Empire, c. xli.

Second Edition.
Philadelphia:
Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger.
1873.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Stereotyped by J. Fagan & Son, Philadelphia.

To the Right Reverend William Bacon Stevens, D.D., LL.D.,
Bishop Of Pennsylvania.

My Dear Bishop: