Question

owing to ill luck, he met with a bad accident on the eve of his examination. Change it into compound sentence.
And DP is mine not yours so don't say me to change it.​

Answer 1

A man's life is more than his work; his dream is ever greater than his achievement; and literature reflects not so much man's deed as the spirit which animates him; not the poor thing that he does, but rather the splendid thing that he ever hopes to do. In no place is this more evident than in the age we are now studying. Those early sea kings were a marvelous mixture of savagery and sentiment, of rough living and of deep feeling, of splendid courage and the deep melancholy of men who know ...