From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors
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- PREFACE.Sample
- LIST OF PORTRAITS.
- FROM THE CONQUEST TO CHAUCER. 1066-1400.
- FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER. 1400-1599.
- THE AGE OF SHAKSPERE. 1564-1616.
- THE AGE OF MILTON. 1608-1674.
- FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE DEATH OF POPE. 1660-1744.
- FROM THE DEATH OF POPE TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. 1744-1789.
- FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE DEATH OF SCOTT. 1789-1832.
- FROM THE DEATH OF SCOTT TO THE PRESENT TIME. 1832-1893.
- GEOFFREY CHAUCER. THE PRIORESS.
- PALAMON'S FAREWELL TO EMELIE.
- EMELIE IN THE GARDEN.
- ALISON.
- ANONYMOUS BALLADS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES. WALY, WALY BUT LOVE BE BONNY.
- THE TWO CORBIES.[82]
- BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL.
- THE SUITOR'S LIFE.
- THE MUSIC OF THE BOWER OF BLISS.
- THE HOUSE OF SLEEP.
- SONNET XC.
- SONG.
- THE SLEEP OF KINGS.
- FALSTAFF AND BARDOLPH.
- THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN.
- HAMLET'S SOLILOQUY.
- DETACHED PASSAGES FROM THE PLAYS.
- OF DEATH.
- OF STUDIES.
- OF ADVERSITY.
- SONG TO CELIA.
- LONG LIFE.
- EPITAPH ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE.
- THE THANKLESS MUSE.
- A SONG OF TRUE LOVE DEAD.
- A SONG OF CRUEL LOVE.[119]
- SWEET MELANCHOLY.[120]
- CÆSAR'S LAMENT OVER POMPEY.
- FAME.
- THE PLEASURES OF MELANCHOLY.
- INVOCATION TO LIGHT.
- SATAN.
- ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT.[127]
- THE VANITY OF MONUMENTS.
- THE CHEATS OF HOPE.
- THE EMPEROR OF LILLIPUT.
- A CHARACTER OF ADDISON.
- AN ORNAMENT TO HER SEX.
- SIGNOR NICOLINI AND THE LION.
- DETACHED PASSAGES FROM BOSWELL'S LIFE.
- THE VILLAGE PASTOR AND SCHOOL-MASTER.
- THE DECAY OF LOYALTY.
- ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE.
- WINTER EVENING.
- MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN.
- TAM O'SHANTER.
- JOHN ANDERSON.
- SONNET.
- THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF THE SOUL.
- LUCY.
- THE SOLITARY REAPER.
- SKATING AT NIGHT.
- THE SONG OF THE SPIRITS.
- THE LOVE OF ALL CREATURES.
- ESTRANGEMENT OF FRIENDS.
- SUNSET ON THE BORDER.
- PROUD MAISIE.
- PIBROCH OF DONUIL DHU.
- LINES TO AN INDIAN AIR.
- VENICE.
- A LAMENT.
- THE POET'S DREAM.
- ELEGY ON THYRZA.
- THE BALL AT BRUSSELS ON THE NIGHT BEFORE WATERLOO.
- ODE ON A GRECIAN URN.
- MADELINE.
- BOB SAWYER'S BACHELOR PARTY.
- BECKY GOES TO COURT AND DINES AT GAUNT HOUSE.
- PASSAGES FROM ADAM BEDE.
- MIDNIGHT IN THE CITY.
- GHOSTS.
- THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE.
- THE PASSING OF ARTHUR.
- BUGLE SONG.
- BREAK, BREAK, BREAK.
- PEACE OR WAR?
- STANZAS FROM IN MEMORIAM.
- SONG FROM MAUD.
- THE LOST LEADER.
- MEETING AT NIGHT.
- WORK AND WORTH.
- HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD.
- INDEX.