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Bucknell UniversityLocated in Lewisburg in central rural Pennsylvania, Bucknell University was founded under the name of the University at Lewisburg in 1846 as a private Baptist university. Bucknell University later shed its Baptist roots and was renamed for its benefactor, William Bucknell, a Philadelphian who bolstered the university during the post-Civil War depression.Bucknell University has academic departments in the liberal arts, engineering, management, and animal behavior disciplines among others. Primarily an undergraduate institution, Bucknell enrolls about 3,550 students (3,350 undergraduates and 200 graduate students) and employs over 280 faculty members as of 2002. Bucknell University is a member of the Patriot League for competitive sports. In sports history, Bucknell University won the first Orange Bowl[?] (26-0 over the University of Miami on January 1, 1935). Bucknell University is also the alma mater of the primordial baseball hero, Christy Mathewson, who requested that he be buried in a cemetery adjoining Bucknell's campus. Bucknell has a reputation for its rigorous academic programs (especially in engineering) and for its conservative student body. Students participate in "Greek" organizations (fraternities and sororities) at a higher than average rate (60% of all eligible students as of 2002) compared to other U.S. Greek campuses. Students commonly praise their school for its scenic campus and for the smart, hard-working study body, while complaining about the vanilla cookie-cutter conservative culture and lack of options for entertainment other than alcohol. Bucknell University's homepage can be found at http://www.bucknell.edu/
poet describes in detail how Roland became mad. Since the world has
himself, who became mad in his old age. These stanzas are terrible,
again."
"Perhaps the gentleman will be good enough to recite them," said
read over Ariosto two or three times every year; it is my passion,
given myself any pains to learn them. I know.html">know it all, except his long
not touch the heart. It is only Horace that I know throughout, in
far from equalling Boileau's."
"Boileau is often too lengthy; I admire Horace, but as for Ariosto,
earned the author the title of divine, and which are to make us
adopted by the Italians, with which the French so justly reproach us.
the rhyme, for they say what they feel better than any other people.
countrymen, nor the sentimentality of the Germans, nor the fatiguing
expression, but the recurrence of the same sounds partly spoils their
rhythmic prose, animating it by the sound of my voice.html">voice and the
the sentiments with which I wished to inspire my audience. They saw
I came to the stanza,
"Poiche allargare il freno al dolor puote,
Giu dagli occhi rigando per le gote
to sob. M. de Voltaire and Madame Denis threw their arms round my
mad, had to notice that he was in the same bed in which Angelica had
to reach the next stanza. For my voice of sorrow and wailing I
the contemplation of his fury, which was in its effects like a
the audience. Voltaire cried,
"I always said so; the secret of drawing tears is to weep one's self,
stirred to its depths. I am obliged to you, sir," he added,
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