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...Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) was an English Renaissance poet often considered to be the foremost poet of his time by many of his contemporaries. His early career, much like Virgil's, was spent writing pastoral and elegiac vers...

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... or of Ivstice.This masterpiece was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean to the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, and to the golden age which he believed she had brought to England. Sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and commended by the foremost literary minds of his day, Spenser's...

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...or Holinesse. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean to the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, and to the golden age which she had brought to England. Sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and commended by the foremost literary minds of his day, Spenser's book remain...

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...f Friendship. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean to the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, and to the golden age which she had brought to England. Sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and commended by the foremost literary minds of his day, Spenser's book is con...

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...of Chastitie. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean to the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, and to the golden age which she had brought to England. Sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and commended by the foremost literary minds of his day, Spenser's book remain...

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...cording. Although the Faerie Queene was never completed, it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean to the Virgin Queen Elizabeth, and to the golden age which she had brought to England. Sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh and commended by the foremost literary minds of his day, Spenser's book remain...

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...ion declined in the 19th century, he is now considered the most canonical poet of his era and the true master of the heroic couplet (followed closely by his predecessor, John Dryden) and English poetic satire. This edition of his poems collects all of his major work, and most of his minor and early poetry as well....

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...ature affords at least a glimm’ring light; The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right: But as the slightest sketch, if justly traced, Is by ill col’ring but the more disgraced, So by false learning is good sense defaced: Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools: In search of wit these lose their common sense...

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... Paraphrase (On Thomas à Kempis) To the Author of a Poem Entitled Successio The First Book of Statius’s Thebais Imitation of Chaucer Imitation of Spenser: The Alley Imitation of Waller: On a Lady Singing to Her Lute Imitation of Waller: On a Fan of the Author’s Design Imitation of Abraham Cowley: The Garden Imitation of Abraham Cowley: Weeping Imitation of Earl of...

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...Astrophil and Stella is a sonnet sequence written by Philip Sidney, an Elizabethan poet and courtier. It details the frustrated love of Astrophil (whose name means star-lover) for his beloved Stella (whose name means star). It is likely that Sidney based his poems on his own...

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...) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England. Raleigh's poetry is written in the relatively straightforward, unornamented mode known as the plain style. C. S. Lewis considered Raleigh one of the era's silver poets, a group of writers who resisted the Italian Renaissance influence ...

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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

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... THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING ...................................................................................................................................................................... 37 SUMM...

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...DER POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI... ...ope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... .................................. 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV ...... 32 SPRING .......................... ...RBURY, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER, WHO DIED IN EXILE AT PARIS, 1732. 161 XIV . ON EDMUND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, WHO DIED IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, 1735... ...t, where for several years he did nothing but read the classics and indite poetry. He wrote a tragedy, a comedy, and four books of an Epic called “Ale... ...g from some criti- cisms which the youth ventured to make on the veteran’s poetry, crept in between them. Walsh of Abberley, in Worcestershire, a man ... ...mmediately after she arrived in France to see him. XIV XIV XIV XIV XIV. ON EDMUND DUKE OF B . ON EDMUND DUKE OF B . ON EDMUND DUKE OF B . ON EDMUND DU... ...F B . ON EDMUND DUKE OF B . ON EDMUND DUKE OF B . ON EDMUND DUKE OF B . ON EDMUND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, UCKINGHAM, UCKINGHAM, UCKINGHAM, UCKINGHAM, WHO ...

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...es the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stories, some of which are complicated by differences in religion. The supernatural plays a major role in the action. Partly on this account, and partly because of the multilayered, intertwined plots, the poem met with considerable contemporary criticism, so Tasso...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...y is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 1 DUN... ...chivalry and song,’ exclaimed Eleanor, ‘where they have courts of love and poetry, and tilts and tour- neys and minstrelsy, and the sun shines as it n... ...share his studies, and full likewise of original fancy and of that vein of poetry almost peculiar to Scottish women; and Jean was equally charming for... ...t and youth- ful imagination made them believe an ideal world of peace, of poetry, and of chivalry, and the loving elder sister who seemed to them a p... ...e repressed an unseasonable attempt of Jasper’s to play with the dogs, and Edmund’s roughness 63 Yo n g e with little Owen, reminded the sisters of M... ... travelled together from Fotheringay were present, besides the King, young Edmund and Jasper Tudor, and the Earl and Countess of Suffolk; and the ban-... ... the beautiful October after- noon, there was walking in the garden, where Edmund and Jasper played with little Lady Anne Beauchamp, and again King He...

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...Marmion A Tale of Flodden Field by Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Marmio... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classi... ...fs of British song Scorned not such legends to prolong: They gleam through Spenser’s elfin dream, And mix in Milton’s heavenly theme; And Dryden, in i... ...error of the muse, Oft hast thou said, “If, still misspent, Thine hours to poetry are lent, Go, and to tame thy wandering course, Quaff from the fount... ...Ten thousand lines of brighter day. Not she, the championess of old, In Spenser’s magic tale enrolled, She for the charmed spear renowned, Which fo... ... Now, gallant Marmion, well I know, Would gladly to the vanguard go; Edmund, the Admiral, T unstall there, With thee their charge will blithely ... ...saw Lord Marmion’s falcon fly: And stainless T unstall’s banner white, And Edmund Howard’s lion bright, Still bear them bravely in the fight; Altho... ... lies dead upon the field, His life-blood stains the spotless shield Edmund is down:- my life is reft; The Admiral alone is left. Let Stan...

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...re so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland, -- broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water....

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.......................................................................................... 46 CHAPTER VII ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD THE SECOND, AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS ........................................................................................................................ 55 CHAPTER VIII ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE FIRST, THE NORMAN CONQUEROR.......................

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...A CHILD S HISTORY OF ENGLAND by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A C... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sit... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...ring, and laying En gland waste. In the last mentioned reign, they seized Edmund, King of East England, and bound him to a tree. Then, they proposed ... ...urga, happened, as she was sitting among her sons, to read a book of Saxon poetry. The art of printing was not known until long and long after that pe... ... English court. When Athelstan died, at forty seven years old, his brother Edmund, who was only eighteen, became king. He was the first of six boy kin... ...l. Dunstan was then Abbot of Glastonbury Ab bey, whither the body of King Edmund the Mag nificent was carried, to be buried. While yet a boy, he had... ... voyagers, statesmen, and scholars, whom it produced, the names of Bacon, Spenser,, and Shakespeare, will always be remembered with pride and venera... ...er Tyrrel 75 Sir William Cecil 320 Sir William Douglas 168 Skippon 373 Spenser 342 Stephen 91 Stephen Langton 132 Stigand 60 Strongbow 107 St...

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...lter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...versity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Sir Walter Scott Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION A certain degree of success, real or suppo... ...r powers of verbal melody above most who have practised this department of poetry. One of those pieces of Mickle, which the author was particularly pl... ... dotard knight—the destined bride of a moonstruck, moping enthusiast, like Edmund Tressilian, from her lowly fates, and held out to her in prospect th... ...ive some account of his guest; it imports us much to know the movements of Edmund T ressilian.—Admit him, I say, but bring him not hither; I will come... ...s of joy when he recognized T ressilian. “Lord love you,” he said, “Master Edmund, be it thou in flesh and fell? Then thou mayest do some good on Sir ... ...renounce me if I think not it were this piping, whining, childish trick of poetry, that came among us with Master W alter Wittypate here and his comra... ...alter Scott wish the gamesome mad fellow no injury. Some of his whore- son poetry (I crave your Grace’s pardon for such a phrase) has rung in mine ear...

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Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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...The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION T... ...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...ectronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...ty for dealing with the grandeurs of the human spirit, with religion, with poetry, or even with science, when it rose above the mercenary practical, i... ...me for saying that men of the most sense are apt, upon two subjects, viz., poetry and style, to talk most like blockheads), have invariably regarded S... ...ial and random T emple de Gout ‘shows the supe- riority in this species of poetry to have been greatly on the side of the Frenchman.’ Let’s hear a rea... ...dious wearisomeness.’ Oh, sorrowful woe, and also woe- ful sorrow, when an Edmund Burke arises, like a cheeta or hunting leopard coupled in a tiger-ch... ...r of our discontent Made glorious summer’ for that intellectual potentate, Edmund Burke, the man whose true mode of power has never yet been truly inv... ... had some re- semblance in spring and elasticity of understanding, viz. by Edmund Burke. Since his day I know of no writers who have avoided the slang...

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...es which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow...

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...MEMORIALS and OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION M... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ... knew Lady Carbery’s constitutional inapti- 77 Thomas de Quincey tude for poetry; and not for the world would I have sought sympathy from her or from... ...an herself; for, though he had never in his whole homely life read more of poetry than he had drunk of Tokay or Constantia,—in fact, had scarcely hear... ... had drunk of Tokay or Constantia,—in fact, had scarcely heard tell of any poetry but Watts’ Hymns,—he seemed petrified: and at last, with a deep sigh... ... " ....................................................... 41 5. St. Edmund " ..................................................... 96 109 ... ...Besides, what proper term is there in English for expressing a compromise? Edmund Burke, and other much older au- thors, express the idea by the word ... ...lip me with a three-man beetle;” be to me a malleus hæreticorum; come like Spenser’s T alus—an iron man with an iron flail, and thresh out the straw o...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ....................................

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...C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A... ...PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versit... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...the upright in one common fate.” Exceedingly common is this usage in Latin poetry, when the object is to generalize a remark—as not connected with one... ...ge over me in the more elaborate difficulties of Greek and of choral Greek poetry. I could not altogether wonder at their hatred of myself. Yet still,... ...ct, that by far the larger proportion of what is received in every age for poetry, and for a season usurps that consecrated name, is not the spontaneo... ...ther oc- cupied the very appartments on the North Parade just quit- ted by Edmund Burke, then in a decaying condition, though he did not die (I believ... ...r- stand, to wish was to execute, with this ardent child of na- ture. Like Spenser’s Bradamant, with martial scorn she couched her lance on the side o...

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...Unknown to History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland By Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication U... ...lication Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ... any way. Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottland by Charlotte M Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... ...eir veneration. All that passionate, chivalrous devotion, which in Sidney, Spenser, and many more attached itself to then-great Gloriana, had in these... ...retly or openly reconciled to Rome, found its object in that rival in whom Edmund Spenser only beheld his false Duessa or snowy Florimel. And, indeed,... ...r openly reconciled to Rome, found its object in that rival in whom Edmund Spenser only beheld his false Duessa or snowy Florimel. And, indeed, romanc... ... my life is done. 312 Unknown To History Little used to poetry, these lines made the good man’s eyes fill with tears as he looked a...

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ..............................................................................................................

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...me T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR ... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE................................................................ .............................................................. 123 OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM. .......................... .............................................................. 130 LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI, WHEN SHE TOOK LEA VE OF THE ENGLISH STAGE. .................... ... GENIUS AND POETR THE GENIUS AND POETR THE GENIUS AND POETR THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POP Y OF POPE E E E E Few poets during... ...lic hostility, altogether irrespective of the mere merit or demerit of his poetry. “We cannot bear a Papist to be our principal bard,” said one class.... ...ters, and travels.—P . 294 ‘Or that whereon her Curlls the public pours:’ Edmund Curll stood in the pillory at Charing Cross, in March 1727- 8. ‘This... ...rll stood in the pillory at Charing Cross, in March 1727- 8. ‘This,’ saith Edmund Curll, ‘is a false assertion. I had, indeed, the corporal punishment... ...d dauntless Curll:’ we come now to a character of much respect, that of Mr Edmund Curll. As a plain repeti- tion of great actions is the best praise o...

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...Y A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classic... .............. 187 187 187 187 187 4 Biographical Essays BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY SHAKSP SHAKSP SHAKSP SHAKSP SHAKSPEARE EARE EARE EARE ... ...E EARE 1 W ILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- A... ...ture, it is certain that Addison was profoundly ignorant of Chaucer and of Spenser. Milton only,—and why? simply because he was a brilliant scholar, a... ...om undervaluing modern po- etry, but from caring little or nothing for any poetry, although he wrote about its mechanic rules. Still the royal imprima... ...etty enough in its management, was the growth of after ages. Else how came Spenser’s life and fortunes to be so utterly overwhelmed in oblivion? No po... ...liam, Gil- 38 Biographical Essays bert, a second Joan, Anne, Richard, and Edmund. Three of the daughters, viz., the two eldest of the family, Joan an... ... learned books might be diffused over the face of the land, the readers of poetry would be chiefly concentred in the metropolis; and such persons woul...

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... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...nic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Edit... ...equal opportunity University. T he D ivine C omedy of D ante Translanted by H. F. Cary THE VISION OR, HELL, PURGATORY, AND PARADISE OF DANTE ALIGH... ...t. 86. Marino, Adone, c. xvii. st. 63. and Sor. “Donna vestita di nero.” and Spenser’s Faery Queen, b.4. c. xii. st. 34. and b. 6 c. ii. st. 35. CANTO... ...y eyes Like two great beacons glared bright and wide. Spenser. F.Q. b. vi. c. vii.st. 42 v. 104. As fall off the light of autu... ...y son Had in contempt.]Guido Cavalcanti, being more given to philosophy than poetry, was perhaps no great admirer of Virgil. Some poetical composition... ...dressed to him, and a spirited translation of it, see Hayley’s Essay on Epic Poetry, Notes to Ep. iii. v. 66. Saidst thou he had?] In Aeschylus, the ... ...nswick. Posth. Works, v. ii. 4to. v. 119. He.] “Henrie, the brother of this Edmund, and son to the foresaid king of Almaine (Richard, brother of Henr... ...s, tom. vii. 296. His Tesoretto, one of the earliest productions of Italian poetry, is a curious work, not unlike the writings of Chaucer in style an...

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...a-kettle, 24 -- Genevieve, 26 -- On Receiving an Account that his Only Sister?s Death was Inevitable, 27 -- On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister, 28 -- A Mathematical Problem, 29 -- Honour, 32 -- On Imitation, 34 -- Inside the Coach, 35 -- Devonshire Roads, 36 -- Music, 37 -- Sonnet: On Quitting School for College, 38 -- Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting...

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... The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 1787-1833 DjVu Editions E-books ' 200... ...s Inevitable . . . . . . . . . 28 On Seeing a Youth Affectionately Welcomed by a Sister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 A Mathematical Problem .... ...red near it . . . . 95 Lines on a Friend who Died of a Frenzy Fever induced by Calumnious Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 To a Friend... .... . 399 The Knight’s Tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400 On Donne’s Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 Israel’s Lament . . . . .... ...n yon verdant bed — O humbly press that consecrated ground! For there does Edmund rest, the learnØd swain! And there his spirit most delights to ro... ...rest, the learnØd swain! And there his spirit most delights to rove: Young Edmund! fam’d for each harmonious strain, And the sore wounds of ill-req... ...ven her Guilt pursue! Where’er with wilder’d step she wander’d pale, Still Edmund’s visage rose to blast her view, Still Edmund’s voice accus’d her... ...o a Friend [Charles Lamb] who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry 1796 Dear Charles! whilst yet thou wert a babe, I ween Tha... ...the saints, I trust. - 399 - The Knight’s Tomb Coleridge: Poems On Donne’s Poetry ?1818 With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe ir...

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... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ectronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Edit... ..., to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover design by Jim Manis: Art: illustration by Gustave Doré (1832 83, French painte... ...t. 86. Marino, Adone, c. xvii. st. 63. and Sor. “Donna vestita di nero.” and Spenser’s Faery Queen, b.4. c. xii. st. 34. and b. 6 c. ii. st. 35. CANTO... ...y eyes Like two great beacons glared bright and wide. Spenser. F.Q. b. vi. c. vii.st. 42 v. 104. As fall off the light of autu... ...y son Had in contempt.]Guido Cavalcanti, being more given to philosophy than poetry, was perhaps no great admirer of Virgil. Some poetical composition... ...dressed to him, and a spirited translation of it, see Hayley’s Essay on Epic Poetry, Notes to Ep. iii. v. 66. Saidst thou he had?] In Aeschylus, the ... ...nswick. Posth. Works, v. ii. 4to. v. 119. He.] “Henrie, the brother of this Edmund, and son to the foresaid king of Almaine (Richard, brother of Henr... ...s, tom. vii. 296. His Tesoretto, one of the earliest productions of Italian poetry, is a curious work, not unlike the writings of Chaucer in style an...

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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...c Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State Univer... ...onic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau , the Pennsylvania State Univer sity, Electronic C... ...re that’s deep must deeply studied be, As from deep wells men read star poetry. These stars are never paled, though out of sight, But like th... ...meval aspects of na ture than our poets have sung. It is only white man’s poetry. Homer and Ossian even can never revive in London or Bos ton. And y... ...ometimes thought to have been detected, the ethics running parallel to the poetry and history, are not so remarkable as the readiness with which they ... ...tery slough. “How many thousands never heard the name Of Sidney, or of Spenser, or their books? And yet brave fellows, and presume of fame, An... ...“under an altar monument of black marble————with a too long epi taph”; of Edmund Halley, that he “at sixteen could make a dial, and then, he said, he...

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...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...sgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosv... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosv... ...nius as Boswell, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Edmund Burke. Johnson’s genius left no fit testimony of itself from his own... ...ar mode of study. He told me that from his earliest years he loved to read poetry, but hardly ever read any poem to an end; that he read Shakspeare at... ... educated at Pembroke. In this list are found the names of Mr. Hawkins the Poetry Pro- fessor, Mr. Shenstone, Sir William Blackstone, and others; not ... ...whose character, long after his de- cease, Dr. Johnson has, in his Life of Edmund Smith, thus drawn in the glowing colours of gratitude: ‘Of Gilbert W... ...s the protection of Johnson.’ He talked very contemptuously of Churchill’s poetry, observing, that ‘it had a temporary cur- rency, only from its audac... ...eded, and the original members were, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Johnson, Mr. Edmund Burke, Dr. Nugent, Mr. Beauclerk, Mr. Langton, Dr. Goldsmith, Mr. Ch...

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...E, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA, 13 -- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, 13 -- THE STOLEN CHILD, 16 -- TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER, 17 -- DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS, 18 -- THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN, 18 -- THE BALLAD OF FATHER O?HART, 19 -- THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE, 20 -- THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER, 22 -- THE ROSE 26 -- TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME, 2...

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...O AN ISLE IN THE WATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 THE MEDITATION O... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 TO SOME I HA VE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE . . . . . . . . . . 44 TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES . . . . .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 UPON A HOUSE SHAKEN BY THE LAND AGITATION . . . . . . . 91 AT THE ABBEY THEATRE (Imitated from ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 ON A PICTURE OF A BLACK CENTAUR BY EDMUND DULAC . . 216 AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...That beautiful mild woman, your close friend, And you and I, and talked of poetry. I said, ‘A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a... ...ng on the strand? THE SEVEN SAGES The First. My great grandfather spoke to Edmund Burke In Grattan’s house. The Second. My great grandfather shared A ... ...ver known again. A CRAZED GIRL THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, ... ...man in the golden breastplate Under the old stone Cross. THE SPIRIT MEDIUM POETRY, music, I have loved, and yet Because of those new dead 334 THE COL... ...x can foul the lair the badger swept — LAST POEMS 337 VI (An image out of Spenser and the common tongue). John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought ...

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...as children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

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...Magnum Bonum or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication M... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Universi... ...electronic transmission, in any way. Magnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Clas... ...itting at the end of the table knit- ting, and hearing Janet repeat German poetry. The boys had long been in school. Caroline jumped up and threw her ... ...quiet on the sofa, while she banished every one, and read Tennyson to him. Poetry, read aloud by her, was Allen’s greatest delight, but not often enjo... ...m. Jessie, will you walk with me?” “And me!” cried George. “And me!” cried Edmund. “And me, Lina go!” cried the smallest voice. But the Colonel discon... ...s. Many a choice gift of thought, of science, of philosophy, of beauty, of poetry, has been brought to light in its time by the seekers, but in vain. ... ...the rabbits had found tongues. How many more are there? No, thank you,” as Edmund and Lina answered his greeting with an offer of very moist-look- ing... ...happy, above all the cousin whom most people thought so formidably clever. Edmund interrupted them by rushing up, thus losing the prize, which was won...