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Updated: June 20, 2025

This is evidently true; and would it not seem to follow that literature is not excluded from participating in the common development of civilisation? His Philosophie applicable a tons les objets de l'esprit et de la raison was issued posthumously in 1754.

J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury - The Idea of Progress : An inguiry into its origin and growth

But the advance of so-called Æstheticism was too strong an invitation, and prepared for him too large and eager an audience, so that the last decade of his life saw several books, Marius the Epicurean, Imaginary Portraits, Appreciations, while others appeared posthumously. Of these the first-named is unquestionably the best and most important.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

He had enough imagination to be the close friend both of Lorenzo de' Medici and Savonarola. Savonarola clothed his dead body in Dominican robes and made him posthumously one of the order which for some time before his death he had desired to join. He died in 1494 at the early age of thirty-one, two years after Lorenzo.

E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas - A Wanderer in Florence

Slender in technical configuration, yet it impressed Louis Ehlert so much that he was impelled to write: "A more perfect canon in the octave could not have been written by one who had grown gray in the learned arts." The four Mazurkas, published posthumously in 1855, that comprise op. 67 were composed by Chopin at various dates.

James Huneker - Chopin : the Man and His Music

During the progress of the history H. pub. in 1757 Four Dissertations: the Natural History of Religion; of the Passions; of Tragedy; of the Standard of Taste. Two others on Suicide and on The Immortality of the Soul were cancelled, but pub. posthumously. In 1763 H. accompanied Lord Hertford to Paris, and for a few months acted as Chargé d'Affaires.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

In 1658 he gave to the public two smaller but important and most characteristic works, 'Hydriotaphia' and 'The Garden of Cyrus. Beside these publications he left many manuscripts which appeared posthumously; the most important of them, for its size and general interest, being 'Christian Morals.

- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6

A complete edition of the Poems, except one or two posthumously printed, was published by himself in ten volumes in 1837, and collected into one ten years later with the additions. Certain things about Southey are uncontested and uncontestable.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

Published by Ticknor and Fields, it was reissued in 1882, by Estes and Lauriat, under the title of "Boys of '61." Carleton completed a careful revision of this work about a fortnight before his golden wedding, for another edition which appeared posthumously in October, 1896. Meanwhile, Mr. Coffin had reentered the work of journalism in Boston.

William Elliot Griffis - Charles Carleton Coffin: War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman

Finally, he sought and obtained the Emperor's sanction to revoke the sacred title conferred posthumously on Hideyoshi. One looks in vain for any fragment of magnanimity among such acts. Ieyasu is reported to have avowedly adopted for guidance the precept, "Before taking any step propound to your heart the query, how about justice?"

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

He is in great request at public dinners, where his speech in reply to the toast of Literature is eagerly attended. He contributes to every symposium in the popular magazines. It is all the more to be regretted that his autobiography, The Last of the Bupps, is to be published posthumously. ENTER My Lord Carey. CAREY. Mistress Dorothy alone! Truly Fortune smiles upon me.

A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne - The Holiday Round