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The Spanish Champion
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The Downfal of Poland
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to X
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Scene before the Siege of Corinth
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Scene after the Siege of Corinth
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The Arabs Farewell to his Horse
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The Lament of the Irish Emigrant
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Lord William
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Cœur de Lion at the Bier of his Father
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The War of the League
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The Last Days of Herculaneum
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The Bridal of Malahide
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Virginiaa Lay of Ancient Rome
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Mary Queen of Scots
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The Gamblers Wite
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The Sack of Baltimore
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The Christians Hope
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To a Seagull
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The Star of Heaven
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The Voice and Pen
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EMPHASIS
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Gougaune Barra
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Sir Turlough or the Churchyard Bride
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The Forging of the Anchor
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To the Nightingale
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My Grave
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The Song of the Shirt
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Page
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Song of Old Time
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PART SECOND
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Shakspeare
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Shakspeare
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Milton
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Walter Scott
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Southey
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Byron
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Thomson
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Young
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Smollett
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Pleasures of Memory 15 Beauty and Expression 16 The Slaves Remonstrance 17 Alexanders Feast 18 The Bard 19 The Last Man 20 The Passions Ro...
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Moore
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Dryden
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Gray
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Campbell
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Printed in the prosaic form Collins
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The Hostage Damon and Pythias 21 Satans Address to the Sun 22 On the Being of a God 23 A Snowstorm The Miseries of Life 24 The Dying Christi...
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Young
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Thomson
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Akenside
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H Kirke White 124 Cowper
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Byron 125
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Byron
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Mangan
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Macaulay
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Shelley
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Hymn of the Moravian Nuns Longfellow
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The Bridge of Sighs Hood
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The Death of Arthur Tennyson
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Retreat of the French Army from Moscow Croly
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Human Life Rogers 147 44 On Slavery Cowper
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On Man 46 War 47 The Parish Poorhouse 48 The Mariners Hymn 49 To Mary in Heaven 50 Instability of Friendship 51 The Deserted Village 52 Th...
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R Montgomery
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Crabbe
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Mrs Southey 153 Burns
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Moore
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Goldsmith
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Cowper
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A Bell
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Willis
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Motherwell
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Shelley
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Moore
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Furlong
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G Griffin
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D F M Carthy
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S Ferguson
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Callanan
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W Carleton
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S Ferguson Keats
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MISCELLANEOUS READINGS IN PROSE 1 The Operations of Nature Sir H Davy
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The Planetary and Terrestrial Worlds 3 On the Approach of Evening Addison
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The Effects of Religion 26 Press on 4 Sorrow for the Dead 5 On Human Grandeur 6 The Pleasures of Science 7 On Study
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Bacon
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Johnson
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Sidney Smith
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Charles Philips
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Anonymous
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Grattan
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The Study of Nature Humboldt
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Dante and Milton Macaulay
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Connexion of Science and Religion Wiseman
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The Advantages of Education Doyle
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READINGS IN PULPIT ELOQUENCE 1 The Practice of Patience Jeremy Taylor 236 2 The Inefficiency of Human Works Melville
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Without God in the World Robert Hall
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Consolations of Religion Finlayson
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The Death of the Wicked 6 The Crucifixion 7 On Death 8 On Autumn Massillon
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Bossuet Blair
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Alison
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The Power of Conscience 10 On Infidelity Horne
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A Thomson
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On Happiness
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On the Approaches of Death 13 The most extensive Wealth not productive of Enjoyment 14 Christian Love 15 On the Uncertainty of Life 16 The In...
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Jeremy Taylor
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OKeefe
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Sherlock
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W Archer Butler
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Mr Pitt Lord Chatham in Reply to Mr Horace Walpole
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Lord Chatham Mr Pitt on the American War
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Lord Mansfield on Privilege of Parliament 4 Mr Grattan on the National Grievances 5 Lord Erskine in favour of Mr Hardy 6 Sir James Mackintosh o...
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Mr Sheils Reply to Lord Lyndhurst
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Sauls Address 2 The Dying Chief
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The Burial of Sir John Moore 4 The Destruction of Sennacherib 5 The Battle of Hohenlinden 6 Lord Ullins Daughter 7 The Soldiers Funeral 8 Casab...
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Campbell Campbell
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Mrs Hemans
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Anonymous
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Mrs Maclean
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H Kirke White 308 Campbell
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The Felon 31 The Sailor 32 The Orphan Boy Lewis 322 Rogers
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Mrs Opie
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Beth Gelert 34 A Ship Sinking 35 Gertrude Von Der Wart 36 William and Margaret 37 The Idiot Boy W L Spencer
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Wilson
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Mrs Hemans
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Mallet
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38 Christian Warfare 39 An Epicedium 40 The Dying Gladiator 41 The Convict Ship Charlotte Elizabeth
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A A Watts
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The Murdered Traveller 43 Belshazzar Byron Hervey Bryant Croly
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Walter Scott 334 Mrs Hemans
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Byron
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Byron
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Walter Scott
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Moore
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G Lewis
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Cowper
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Hood
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Leigh Hunt 372 Eliza Cook
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The King of the Wind 77 De Bruce Eliza Cook 373 Allan Cunningham
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The Ruined Cottage Mrs Maclean
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The Prisoner of Chillon 80 Battle of Flodden Field and Death of Marmion Byron
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Scott
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Mary the Maid of the Inn
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The Paupers Deathbed 83 Ode to Eloquence Southey 378 Mrs Southey 379 Carey
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Ginevra
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The Massacre of Glencoe 86 OConnors Child 87 Celadon and Amelia 88 The Legend of Lochbuy 89 Jugurthas Prison Thoughts 90 Marriage of Ken...
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Thomson
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Thomas Nimmo
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Wolfe
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Hogg
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Mrs Hemans
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Coleridge
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Motherwell
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Byron
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Miss Pardoe 391 Wordsworth
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Longfellow 392 Byron
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R M Milnes
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DRAMATIC EXTRACTS SPEECHES AND SOLILOQUIES 1 Brutus on the Death of Cæsar 2 Mark Antony on the Death of Cæsar
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Richmond encouraging his Soldiers
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Henry V to his Soldiers at Harfieur
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Cato on the Immortality of the Soul
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Shakspeare
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Shakspeare
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Ion contemplating the Death of King Adrastus
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Henry IV Northumberland and Hotspur
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Wolsey and Cromwell
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Sir Edward Mortimer and Wilford
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COMIC EXTRACTS FOR RECITATION
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Planche
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Mackenzie
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Beliebte Passagen

Seite 225 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 310 - Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Seite 130 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime ; that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened...
Seite 156 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Seite 286 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week or the next year?
Seite 391 - The floating Clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Seite 359 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Seite 286 - We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. •Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
Seite 170 - ... flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain. And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Seite 127 - Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.

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