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Excerpt from Last Pages From a Journal: With Other Papers It was the author's wish that the paper on Spenser and...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry: The Revival of the Romance, of Chivalry in the Spanish,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Masques and Mummers: Essays on the Theatre of Here and Now It is possible to conceive, perhaps, that...  Read More >>

Excerpt from A Scrap Book WE all know what gui s'excuse really does, so I shall not say much as to further reappearances...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Chronicles of America Series, Vol. 34 Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something evermore...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Amenities of Social Life Trueitisthatwepossessthe electric telegraph, and the spiritual consolations...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Shakespeare's Tempest in Baconian Light: A New Theory Having recovered from illness, and looking out...  Read More >>

Excerpt from A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880, Vol. 3 of 4 IN a Survey, published eight years ago, of the...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Art of Conversation and Other Papers The two questions which you addressed to me through him I...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The New Princeton Review, Vol. 6: 1888, July September November We must, therefore, prepare ourselves,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The North American Review, Vol. 90 That we may lift from out the dust A voice as unto him that bears,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Victorian Age of English Literature, Vol. 2 Then a believer in the Fathers and the English Church,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from A Letter to Richard Lord Bishop of Landaff: On the Subject of His Lordship's Letter to the Late Archbishop...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Gleanings Through Wales, Holland, and Westphalia, Vol. 2: 4th Edition, to Which Is Added, Humanity;...  Read More >>

Excerpt from A Study in Shirley's Comedies of London Life The present study in Shirley's comedies of London life...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Social Pictorial Satire: Reminiscences and Appreciations of English Illustrators of the Past Generation...  Read More >>

Excerpt from American Writers of to-Day As a reflection on breakfast and an insult to dinner. In a similar spirit,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell, Vol. 3 of 16: With Portraits, Illustrations, and Facsimiles...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Leigh Hunt's Relations With Byron, Shelley and Keats The relations of Leigh Hunt to Byron, Shelley...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Century Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 8: An Encyclopedic Lexicon This is a very great...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Essays Upon Several Subjects Whether this Delicacy pro ceeds from a more refin'd and ele gant Tafie,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from A Poet's Children: Hartley and Sara Coleridge The youngest of the ten children of the Vicar of Ottery...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from Crowned Masterpieces of Literature, Vol. 9 of 10: That Have Advanced Civilization Political liberty,...  Read More >>

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