Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection
Landor
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Landor · 47 chapters
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- Literary English
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How suddenly may the most powerful be in the situation of the most helpless!
The conqueror of Syracuse lies before me. Send a vessel off to Carthage. Say Hannibal is at the gates of Rome.
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- IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONSSample
- POEMS
- MARCELLUS AND HANNIBAL
- QUEEN ELIZABETH AND CECIL
- EPICTETUS AND SENECA
- PETER THE GREAT AND ALEXIS
- HENRY VIII AND ANNE BOLEYN
- JOSEPH SCALIGER AND MONTAIGNE
- BOCCACCIO AND PETRARCA
- BOSSUET AND THE DUCHESS DE FONTANGES
- FOOTNOTES:
- JOHN OF GAUNT AND JOANNA OF KENT
- LEOFRIC AND GODIVA
- ESSEX AND SPENSER
- LORD BACON AND RICHARD HOOKER
- FOOTNOTE:
- OLIVER CROMWELL AND WALTER NOBLE
- FOOTNOTE:
- LORD BROOKE AND SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
- SOUTHEY AND PORSON
- THE ABBÉ DELILLE AND WALTER LANDOR
- DIOGENES AND PLATO
- ALFIERI AND SALOMON THE FLORENTINE JEW
- ROUSSEAU AND MALESHERBES
- LUCULLUS AND CAESAR
- EPICURUS, LEONTION, AND TERNISSA
- FOOTNOTES:
- DANTE AND BEATRICE
- FRA FILIPPO LIPPI AND POPE EUGENIUS THE FOURTH
- TASSO AND CORNELIA
- FOOTNOTES:
- LA FONTAINE AND DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT
- LUCIAN AND TIMOTHEUS
- BISHOP SHIPLEY AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
- SOUTHEY AND LANDOR
- THE EMPEROR OF CHINA AND TSING-TI
- LOUIS XVIII AND TALLEYRAND
- OLIVER CROMWELL AND SIR OLIVER CROMWELL
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE COUNT GLEICHEM: THE COUNTESS: THEIR CHILDREN, AND ZAIDA.
- FIRST DAY’S INTERVIEW
- FOOTNOTE:
- THIRD DAY’S INTERVIEW
- FOURTH DAY’S INTERVIEW
- FIFTH DAY’S INTERVIEW
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- VI
- VII
- IX
- FIESOLE IDYL
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XV
- XVII
- TO WORDSWORTH
- TO BARRY CORNWALL
- TO ROBERT BROWNING
- AGE
- XXIII
- XXIV
- A PASTORAL
- THE LOVER
- THE POET WHO SLEEPS
- DANIEL DEFOE
- TO THE RIVER AVON