id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt bulwer-ernest-1837 bulwer bulwer-ernest-1837 1837 .txt text/plain 140691 6828 76 And he also knew that few become either great authors or great men (and he fancied Ernest was born to be one or the other) without the fierce emotions and passionate struggles, through which the Wilhelm Meister of real life must work out his apprenticeship, and attain the Master Rank. You cannot be contented, as poets and historians mostly are, by becoming great only from delineating great men, or imagining great events, or describing a great era. cache/bulwer-ernest-1837.txt txt/bulwer-ernest-1837.txt