Chapter V: Book THE FIRST

BY
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, ESQ.
VINERIAN PROFESSOR OF LAW,
AND
SOLICITOR GENERAL TO HER MAJESTY.

O X F O R D,
PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.
M. DCC. LXV.

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I received one morning a message from
poor Goldsmith that he was in great
distress, and, as it was not in his
power to come to me, begging that I
would come to him as soon as possible. I
sent him a guinea, and promised to come
to him directly. I accordingly went as
soon as I was dressed, and found that
his landlady had arrested him for his
rent, at which he was in a violent
passion. I perceived that he had already
changed my guinea, and had got a bottle
of madeira and a glass before him. I put
the cork into the bottle, desired he
would be calm, and began to talk to him
of the means by which he might be
extricated. He then told me he had a
novel (_The Vicar of Wakefield_) ready
for the press, which he produced to me.
I looked into it, and saw its merit;
told the landlady I should soon return;
and, having gone to a bookseller, sold
it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith
the money, and he discharged his rent,
not without rating his landlady in a
high tone for having used him so ill.
JOHNSON

THE
V I C A R
OF
WAKEFIELD:
A T A L E.
Supposed to be written by HIMSELF.

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_Sperate miseri, cavete fælices._

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VOL. I.

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SALISBURY:
Printed by B. COLLINS,
For F. NEWBERY, in Pater-Noster-Row, London.
MDCCLXVI.

His exquisite sensibility is ever
counteracted by his perception of the
ludicrous and his ambition after the
strange.
TALFOURD

A
SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
THROUGH
FRANCE AND ITALY.

BY
MR. YORICK.

* * * * *

VOL. I.

* * * * *

L O N D O N:
Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT,
in the Strand. MDCCLXVIII.

I know not indeed of any work on the
principles of free government that is to
be compared, in instruction, and
intrinsic value, to this small and
unpretending volume of _The Federalist_,
not even if we resort to Aristotle,
Cicero, Machiavel, Montesquieu, Milton,
Locke, or Burke. It is equally admirable
in the depth of its wisdom, the
comprehensiveness of its views, the
sagacity of its reflections, and the
fearlessness, patriotism, candor,
simplicity, and elegance with which its
truths are uttered and recommended.
CHANCELLOR KENT

T H E
FEDERALIST:
A COLLECTION
OF
E S S A Y S,

WRITTEN IN FAVOUR OF THE
NEW CONSTITUTION,

AS AGREED UPON BY THE FEDERAL CONVENTION,
SEPTEMBER 17, 1787.

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I.

NEW-YORK:
PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. AND A. M'LEAN,
No. 41, HANOVER-SQUARE,
M,DCC,LXXXVIII.

The novel of _Humphrey Clinker_ is, I do
think, the most laughable story that has
ever been written since the goodly art
of novel-writing began. Winifred Jenkins
and Tabitha Bramble must keep Englishmen
on the grin for ages to come; and in
their letters and the story of their
loves there is a perpetual fount of
sparkling laughter, as inexhaustible as
Bladud's well.
THACKERAY

THE
EXPEDITION
OF
HUMPHRY CLINKER.

By the AUTHOR of
RODERICK RANDOM.

* * * * *

IN THREE VOLUMES.
V O L. I.

* * * * *

----Quorsum hæc tam putida tendunt,
Furcifer? ad te, inquam---- HOR.

* * * * *

L O N D O N,
Printed for W. JOHNSTON, in Ludgate-Street;
and B. COLLINS, in Salisbury.
MDCLXXI.

Adam Smith contributed more by the
publication of this single work towards
the happiness of men than has been
effected by the united abilities of all
the statesmen and legislators of whom
history has preserved an authentic
account.
BUCKLE

AN
I N Q U I R Y
INTO THE
Nature and Causes
OF THE
WEALTH of NATIONS.

By ADAM SMITH, LL. D. and F. R. S.
Formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow.

IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I.

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LONDON:
PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN; AND T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND.
MDCCLXXVI.

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Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer;
The lord of irony--
BYRON

THE
HISTORY
OF THE
DECLINE AND FALL
OF THE
ROMAN EMPIRE,

By EDWARD GIBBON, Esq;

VOLUME THE FIRST.

Jam provideo animo, velut qui, proximis littori vadis inducti,
mare pedibus ingrediuntur, quicquid progredior, in vastiorem me
altitudinem, ac velut profundum invehi; et crescere pene opus,
quod prima quæque perficiendo minui videbatur.

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L O N D O N:
PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN; AND T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND.
MDCCLXXVI.

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Whatever Sheridan has done, or chosen to
do, has been _par excellence_ always the
best of its kind. He has written the
best comedy (_School for Scandal_), the
best drama (in my mind far beyond that
St. Giles lampoon, the _Beggar's
Opera_), the best farce (the
_Critic_,--and it is only too good for a
farce), and the best address (_Monologue
on Garrick_), and, to crown all,
delivered the very best oration (the
famous Begum speech) ever conceived or
heard in this country.
BYRON

THE
_SCHOOL_
FOR
_SCANDAL._
A
COMEDY.

* * * * *

Satire has always shone among the rest,
And is the boldest way, if not the best,
To tell men freely of their foulest faults,
To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts.
In satire, too, the wise took diff'rent ways,
To each deserving its peculiar praise.
DRYDEN.

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_DUBLIN:_
Printed for J. EWLING.

Of all the verses that have been ever
devoted to the subject of domestic
happiness, those in his Winter Evening,
at the opening of the fourth book of the
_Task_, are perhaps the most beautiful.
CAMPBELL

THE
TASK,

A
POEM,
IN SIX BOOKS.

BY WILLIAM COWPER,
OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ.

Fit surculus arbor.
ANONYM.

To which are added,

BY THE SAME AUTHOR,

AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, Esq. TIROCINIUM, or a
REVIEW OF SCHOOLS, and the HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN.

* * * * *

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, N^o 72, ST. PAUL'S
CHURCH-YARD.
1785.

Through busiest street and loneliest glen
Are felt the flashes of his pen:
He rules 'mid winter snows, and when
Bees fill their hives:
Deep in the general heart of men
His power survives.
WORDSWORTH

P O E M S,
CHIEFLY IN THE
SCOTTISH DIALECT,

BY
ROBERT BURNS.

* * * * *

THE Simple Bard, unbroke by rules of Art,
He pours the wild effusions of the heart:
And if inspir'd, 'tis Nature's pow'rs Inspire;
Her's all the melting thrill, and her's the kindling fire.
ANONYMOUS.

* * * * *

KILMARNOCK:
PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON.
M,DCC,LXXXVI.

Open the book where you will, it takes
you out-of-doors. In simplicity of taste
and natural refinement he reminds you of
Walton; in tenderness toward what he
would have called the brute creation, of
Cowper. He seems to have lived before
the Fall. His volumes are the journal of
Adam in Paradise.
LOWELL

THE
NATURAL HISTORY
AND
ANTIQUITIES
OF
SELBORNE,
IN THE
COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON:

WITH
ENGRAVINGS, AND AN APPENDIX.

* * * * *

-- -- -- "ego Apis Matinæ
"More modoque
Grata carpentis -- -- -- per laborem
Plurimum," -- -- -- -- -- HOR.

"Omnia benè describere, quæ in hoc mundo, a Deo facta, aut
Naturæ creatæ viribus elaborata fuerunt, opus est non unius
hominis, nec unius ævi. Hinc _Faunæ & Floræ_ utilissimæ; hine
_Monographi_ præstantissimi."

SCOPOLI ANN. HIST. NAT.

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L O N D O N:
PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY;
FOR B. WHITE AND SON, AT HORACE'S HEAD, FLEET STREET.
M,DCC,LXXXIX,

Reduced Leaf in original, 7.43 × 9.5 inches.

He is without parallel in any age or
country, except perhaps Lord Bacon or
Cicero; and his works contain an ampler
store of political and moral wisdom than
can be found in any other writer
whatever.
MACKINTOSH

REFLECTIONS
ON THE
REVOLUTION IN FRANCE,
AND ON THE
PROCEEDINGS IN CERTAIN SOCIETIES
IN LONDON
RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT.
IN A
LETTER

INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO A GENTLEMAN
_IN PARIS._

BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
_EDMUND BURKE._

* * * * *

L O N D O N:
PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY, IN PALL-MALL.
M.DCC.XC.

The great Commoner of mankind
CONWAY

_RIGHTS OF MAN:_
BEING AN
ANSWER TO MR. BURKE'S ATTACK
ON THE
_FRENCH REVOLUTION._

BY
THOMAS PAINE,

SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO CONGRESS IN THE
AMERICAN WAR, AND
AUTHOR OF THE WORK INTITLED _COMMON SENSE_.

* * * * *

L O N D O N:
PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.
MDCCXCI.

Homer is not more decidedly the first of
heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more
decidedly the first of the dramatists,
Demosthenes is not more sensibly the
first of orators, than Boswell is the
first of biographers.
MACAULAY

THE
LIFE
OF
SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

COMPREHENDING

AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES
AND NUMEROUS WORKS,
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER;

A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE
AND CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY EMINENT PERSONS;

AND

VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION,
NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.

THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN
IN GREAT-BRITAIN, FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY,
DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

BY JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.

----_Quò fit ut_ OMNIS
_Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella_
VITA SENIS.---- HORAT.

* * * * *

VOLUME THE FIRST.

* * * * *

_L O N D O N:_
PRINTED BY HENRY BALDWIN,
FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY.
M DCC XCI.

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He laid us as we lay at birth
On the cool flowery lap of earth;
Smiles broke from us and we had ease,
The hills were round us, and the breeze
Went o'er the sun-lit fields again;
Our foreheads felt the wind and rain.
Our youth return'd; for there was shed
On spirits that had long been dead,
Spirits dried up and closely furl'd,
The freshness of the early world.
ARNOLD

LYRICAL BALLADS,

WITH

_A FEW OTHER POEMS_.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. & A. ARCH, GRACECHURCH-STREET.
1798.

The history was hailed with delight as
the most witty and original production
from any American pen. The first foreign
critic was Scott, who read it aloud in
his family till their sides were sore
with laughing.
WARNER

A HISTORY

OF

NEW YORK,

FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE
END OF THE DUTCH DYNASTY.

CONTAINING

Among many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable
Ponderings of WALTER THE DOUBTER, the Disastrous Projects of
WILLIAM THE TESTY, and the Chivalric Achievments of PETER THE
HEADSTRONG, the three Dutch Governors of NEW AMSTERDAM; being
the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been, or
ever will be Published.

* * * * *

BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.

* * * * *

=De waarheid die in duister lag,
Die komt met klaarheid aan den dag.=

* * * * *

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

* * * * *

PUBLISHED BY INSKEEP & BRADFORD, NEW YORK;
BRADFORD & INSKEEP, PHILADELPHIA; WM. M'ILHENNEY,
BOSTON; COALE & THOMAS, BALTIMORE;
AND MORFORD, WILLINGTON, & CO. CHARLESTON.

* * * * *

1809.

The Pilgrim of Eternity whose fame
Over his living head like heaven is bent.
SHELLEY

=Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.=

ROMAUNT.

BY

LORD BYRON.

* * * * *

L'univers est une espèce de livre, dont on n'a lu que la
première page quand on n'a vu que son pays. J'en ai feuilleté un
assez grand nombre, que j'ai trouvé également mauvaises. Cet
examen ne m'a point été infructueux. Je haïssais ma patrie.
Toutes les impertinences des peuples divers, parmi lesquels j'ai
vécu, m'ont réconcilié avec elle. Quand je n'aurais tiré d'autre
bénéfice de mes voyages que celui-là, je n'en regretterais ni
les frais, ni les fatigues.
LE COSMOPOLITE.

* * * * *

_LONDON:_
PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, 32, FLEET-STREET;
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; AND JOHN CUMMING, DUBLIN.
_By Thomas Davison, White-Friars._
1812.

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I read again, and for the third time,
Miss Austen's very finely written novel
of _Pride and Prejudice_. That young
lady had a talent for describing the
involvements, feelings, and characters
of ordinary life, which is to me the
most wonderful I have ever met with. The
big bow-wow I can do myself like any one
going; but the exquisite touch, which
renders commonplace things and
characters interesting from the truth of
the description and the sentiment, is
denied me. What a pity so gifted a
creature died so early!
SCOTT

PRIDE

AND

PREJUDICE:

A NOVEL.

_IN THREE VOLUMES._

* * * * *

BY THE
AUTHOR OF "SENSE AND SENSIBILITY."

* * * * *

VOL. I.

* * * * *

=London:=
PRINTED FOR T. EGERTON,
MILITARY LIBRARY, WHITEHALL.
1813.

A subtle-souled psychologist
SHELLEY

CHRISTABEL:

* * * * *

KUBLA KHAN,
A VISION;

* * * * *

THE PAINS OF SLEEP.

* * * * *

BY
S. T. COLERIDGE, ESQ.

* * * * *

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET,
BY WILLIAM BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW,
ST. JAMES'S.
1816.

O great and gallant Scott,
True gentleman, heart, blood, and bone,
I would it had been my lot
To have seen thee, and heard thee, and known.
TENNYSON

IVANHOE;

A ROMANCE.

BY "THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY," &c.

* * * * *

Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart,
And often took leave,--but seem'd loth to depart!
PRIOR.

* * * * *

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

* * * * *

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH.
AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. 90, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.
1820.

He is made one with Nature: there is heard
His voice in all her music, from the moan
Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird;
He is a presence to be felt and known
In darkness and in light, from herb and stone,
Spreading itself where'er that Power may move
Which has withdrawn his being to its own;
Which wields the world with never-wearied love,
Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
SHELLEY

LAMIA,

ISABELLA,

THE EVE OF ST. AGNES,

AND

OTHER POEMS.

* * * * *

BY JOHN KEATS,
AUTHOR OF ENDYMION.

* * * * *

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND HESSEY,
FLEET-STREET.
1820.

Cor cordium
EPITAPH

ADONAIS

* * * * *

AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS,
AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION ETC.

BY

PERCY. B. SHELLEY

[Greek: Astêr prin men elampes eni zôoisin heôos.
Nun de thanôn, lampeis hesperos en phthimenois.]
PLATO.

PISA
WITH THE TYPES OF DIDOT
MDCCCXXI.

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And the more we walk around his image,
and the closer we look, the more nearly
we arrive at this conclusion, that the
_Elia_ on our shelves is all but the
same being as the pleasant Charles who
was so loved by his friends, who
ransomed from the stalls, to use old
Richard of Bury's phrase, his Thomas
Browne and the "dear silly old angel"
Fuller, and who stammered out such
quaint jests and puns--"Saint Charles,"
as Thackeray once called him, while
looking at one of his half-mad letters,
and remembering his devotion to that
quite mad sister.
FITZGERALD

ELIA.

ESSAYS WHICH HAVE APPEARED UNDER THAT SIGNATURE
IN THE
LONDON MAGAZINE.

* * * * *

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND HESSEY,
FLEET-STREET.
1823.

The most confiding of diarists, the most
harmless of turncoats, the most
wondering of _quidnuncs_, the fondest
and most penitential of faithless
husbands, the most admiring, yet
grieving, of the beholders of the ladies
of Charles II, the Sancho Panza of the
most insipid of Quixotes, James II, who
did bestow on him (in naval matters) the
government of a certain "island," which,
to say the truth, he administered to the
surprise and edification of all who
bantered him. Many official patriots
have, doubtless, existed since his time,
and thousands, nay millions of
respectable men of all sorts gone to
their long account, more or less grave
in public, and frail to their
consciences; but when shall we meet with
such another as he was?
HUNT

MEMOIRS

OF

SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ. F.R.S.

SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
IN THE REIGNS OF CHARLES II. AND JAMES II.

COMPRISING

H I S D I A R Y

FROM 1659 TO 1669,

DECIPHERED BY THE REV. JOHN SMITH, A. B. OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE, FROM THE ORIGINAL SHORT-HAND MS. IN THE
PEPYSIAN LIBRARY, AND A SELECTION FROM HIS

P R I V A T E C O R R E S P O N D E N C E.

EDITED BY
RICHARD, LORD BRAYBROOKE.

* * * * *

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

* * * * *

LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
MDCCCXXV.

Reduced Leaf in original, 9.25 × 11.87 inches.

While the love of country continues to
prevail, his memory will exist in the
hearts of the people.
WEBSTER

THE LAST

OF

THE MOHICANS;

A NARRATIVE OF

1757.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE PIONEERS."

* * * * *

"Mislike me not, for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun."

* * * * *

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.

* * * * *

PHILADELPHIA:
H. C. CAREY & I. LEA--CHESNUT-STREET.

* * * * *

1826.

And through the trumpet of a child of Rome
Rang the pure music of the flutes of Greece.
SWINBURNE

PERICLES AND ASPASIA

BY

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, ESQ.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON
SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET.
1836.

Thankfully I take my share of love and
kindness which this generous and gentle
and charitable soul has contributed to
the world. I take and enjoy my share and
say a benediction for the meal.
THACKERAY

THE

PICKWICK PAPERS.

BY

CHARLES DICKENS.

LONDON
CHAPMAN AND HALL 186 STRAND
MDCCCXXXVII.

Carlyle alone with his wide humanity
has, since Coleridge, kept to us the
promises of England. His provokes rather
than informs. He blows down narrow
walls, and struggles, in a lurid light,
like the Jótuns, to throw the old woman
Time; in his work there is too much of
the anvil and the forge, not enough
hay-making under the sun. He makes us
act rather than think; he does not say,
know thyself, which is impossible, but
know thy work. He has no pillars of
Hercules, no clear goal, but an endless
Atlantis horizon. He exaggerates. Yes:
but he makes the hour great, the future
bright, the reverence and admiration
strong: while mere precise fact is a
coil of lead.
THOREAU

SARTOR RESARTUS.

IN THREE BOOKS.

* * * * *

=Reprinted for Friends from Fraser's Magazine.=

* * * * *

_Mein Vermächtniss, wie herrlich weit und breit!_
_Die Zeit ist mein Vermächtniss, mein Acker ist die Zeit._

* * * * *

LONDON:
JAMES FRASER, 215 REGENT STREET.

* * * * *

M.DCCC.XXXIV.

It was good to meet him in the
wood-paths with that pure intellectual
gleam diffused about his presence, like
the garment of a shining one; and he so
quiet, so simple, so without pretension,
encountering each man as if expecting to
receive more than he could impart.
HAWTHORNE

NATURE.

* * * * *

"Nature is but an image or imitation of
wisdom, the last thing of the soul;
nature being a thing which doth only do,
but not know."
PLOTINUS.

* * * * *

BOSTON:
JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.
M DCCC XXXVI.

The result of all his labors of
research, thought and composition was a
history possessing the unity, variety
and interest of a magnificent poem.
WHIPPLE

HISTORY

OF THE

CONQUEST OF PERU,

WITH A PRELIMINARY VIEW

OF THE

CIVILIZATION OF THE INCAS.

* * * * *

BY
WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT,
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE; OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY
OF HISTORY AT MADRID, ETC.

* * * * *

"Congestæ cumulantur opes, orbisque rapinas
Accipit."
CLAUDIAN, In Ruf., lib. i., v. 194.

"So color de religion
Van a buscar plata y oro
Del encubierto tesoro."
LOPE DE VEGA, El Nuevo Mundo, Jorn. 1.

* * * * *

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOLUME I.

* * * * *

NEW YORK:
HARPER AND BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET.
M DCCC XLVII.

When all is said, Poe remains a master
of fantastic and melancholy sound. Some
foolish old legend tells of a musician
who surpassed all his rivals. His
strains were unearthly sad, and ravished
the ears of those who listened with a
strange melancholy. Yet his viol had but
a single string, and the framework was
fashioned out of a dead woman's
breast-bone. Poe's verse--the parallel
is much in his own taste--resembles that
player's minstrelsy.
LANG

THE RAVEN

AND

OTHER POEMS

BY

EDGAR A. POE.

* * * * *

NEW YORK:
WILEY AND PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY.
1845.

Strew with laurel the grave
Of the early-dying! Alas,
Early she goes on the path
To the silent country, and leaves
Half her laurels unwon,
Dying too soon!--yet green
Laurels she had, and a course
Short, but redoubled by fame.
ARNOLD

JANE EYRE.

=An Autobiography.=

EDITED BY
CURRER BELL.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.

LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., CORNHILL.
1847.

The poem already is a little classic,
and will remain one, just as surely as
_The Vicar of Wakefield_, _The Deserted
Village_, or any other sweet and pious
idyl of our English tongue.
STEDMAN

EVANGELINE,

A

TALE OF ACADIE.

BY

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

* * * * *

BOSTON:

WILLIAM D. TICKNOR & COMPANY.
1847.

The most exquisite poetry hitherto
written by a woman.
STEDMAN

SONNETS.

BY
E. B. B.

READING:
[NOT FOR PUBLICATION.]
1847.

What racy talks of Yankee-land he had!
Up-country girl, up-country farmer-lad;
The regnant clergy of the time of old
In wig and gown:--tales not to be retold.
CLOUGH

_MELIBOEUS-HIPPONAX._

* * * * *

THE

=Biglow Papers=,

EDITED,

WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES, GLOSSARY,
AND COPIOUS INDEX,

BY
HOMER WILBUR, A. M.,
PASTOR OF THIS FIRST CHURCH IN JAALAM, AND (PROSPECTIVE) MEMBER
OF MANY LITERARY, LEARNED AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES,
(_for which see page v._)

The ploughman's whistle, or the trivial flute,
Finds more respect than great Apollo's lute.
_Quarles's Emblems_, B. II. E. 8.

Margaritas, munde porcine, calcâsti: en, siliquas accipe.
_Jac. Car. Fil. ad Pub. Leg._ §1.

CAMBRIDGE:
PUBLISHED BY GEORGE NICHOLS.
1848.

There is a man in our own days whose
words are not framed to tickle delicate
ears; who, to my thinking, comes before
the great ones of society much as the
son of Imlah came before the throned
Kings of Judah and Israel; and who
speaks truth as deep, with a power as
prophet-like and as vital--a mien as
dauntless and as daring. Is the satirist
of _Vanity Fair_ admired in high
places?--They say he is like Fielding;
they talk of his wit, humour, comic
powers. He resembles Fielding as an
eagle does a vulture: Fielding could
stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never
does. His wit is bright, his humour
attractive, but both bear the same
relation to his serious genius that the
mere lambent sheet-lightning, playing
under the edge of the summer cloud, does
to the electric death-spark hid in its
womb.
BRONTË

VANITY FAIR

=A Novel without a Hero.=

_BY_

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

_LONDON_
BRADBURY & EVANS, BOUVERIE STREET,
_1848_

The cleverest and most
fascinating of narrators.
FREEMAN

THE
HISTORY OF ENGLAND
FROM
THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.

BY
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.

VOLUME I.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1849.

Shakespeare and Milton--what third blazoned name
Shall lips of after-ages link to these?
His who, beside the wild encircling seas,
Was England's voice, her voice with one acclaim,
For threescore years; whose word of praise was fame,
Whose scorn gave pause to man's iniquities.

What strain was his in that Crimean war?
A bugle call in battle, a low breath,
Plaintive and sweet above the fields of death!
So year by year the music rolled afar,
From Euxine wastes to flowery Kandahar,
Bearing the laurel or the cypress wreath.

Others shall have their little space of time,
Their proper niche and bust, then fade away
Into the darkness, poets of a day;
But thou, O builder of enduring rhyme,
Thou shalt not pass! Thy fame in every clime
On earth shall live where Saxon speech has sway.
ALDRICH

IN MEMORIAM.

LONDON.
EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.
1850.

New England's poet, soul reserved and deep,
November nature with a name of May.
LOWELL

THE
SCARLET LETTER,

A ROMANCE.

BY
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.

BOSTON:
TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS
M DCCC L.

Works of imagination written with an aim
to immediate impression are commonly
ephemeral; but the creative faculty of
Mrs. Stowe, like that of Cervantes in
_Don Quixote_ and of Fielding in _Joseph
Andrews_, overpowered the narrow
specialty of her design, and expanded a
local and temporary theme with the
cosmopolitanism of genius.
LOWELL

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN;
OR,
LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY.

BY
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

VOL. I.

BOSTON:
JOHN P. JEWETT & COMPANY.
CLEVELAND, OHIO:
JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON.
1852.

A strange, unexpected and, I believe,
most true and excellent _sermon_ in
Stones--as well as the best piece of
school-mastery in architectonics.
CARLYLE

THE

=Stones of Venice.=

VOLUME THE FIRST.

=The Foundations.=

BY JOHN RUSKIN,
AUTHOR OF "THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE," "MODERN PAINTERS,"
ETC. ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR.

LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., 65. CORNHILL.
1851.

Reduced Leaf in orignal 7 x 10 inches.

There is delight in singing, tho' none hear
Besides the singer; and there is delight
In praising, tho' the praiser sit alone
And see the prais'd far off him, far above.
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's;
Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,
Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,
No man hath walkt along our roads with step
So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue
So varied in discovery. But warmer climes
Give brighter plumage, stronger wing: the breeze
Of Alpine hights thou playest with, borne on
Beyond Sorrento and Amalfi, where
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
LANDOR

MEN AND WOMEN.

BY
ROBERT BROWNING.

IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.

LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1855.

Far from making his book a mere register
of events, he has penetrated deep below
the surface and explored the causes of
these events. He has carefully studied
the physiognomy of the times and given
finished portraits of the great men who
conducted the march of the revolution.
PRESCOTT

THE RISE
OF THE
DUTCH REPUBLIC.

=A History.=

BY JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.

IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL I.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS,
329 & 331 PEARL STREET.
1856.

The sphere which she has made specially
her own is that quiet English country
life which she knew in early youth. She
has done for it what Scott did for the
Scotch peasantry, or Fielding for the
eighteenth century Englishman, or
Thackeray for the higher social stratum
of his time.
STEPHEN

ADAM BEDE

BY
GEORGE ELIOT
AUTHOR OF
"SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE"

"So that ye may have
Clear images before your gladden'd eyes
Of nature's unambitious underwood
And flowers that prosper in the shade. And when
I speak of such among the flock as swerved
Or fell, those only shall be singled out
Upon whose lapse, or error, something more
Than brotherly forgiveness may attend."
WORDSWORTH.

IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. I.

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCLIX

_The Right of Translation is reserved._

The most potent instrument for the
extension of the realm of natural
knowledge which has come into men's
hands since the publication of Newton's
_Principia_ is Darwin's _Origin of
Species_.
HUXLEY

ON
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION,

OR THE

PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE
FOR LIFE.

BY CHARLES DARWIN, M.A.,

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL, GEOLOGICAL, LINNÆAN, ETC., SOCIETIES;
AUTHOR OF 'JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES DURING H.M.S. BEAGLE'S VOYAGE
ROUND THE WORLD.'

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1859.

_The right of Translation is reserved._

A planet equal to the sun
Which cast it, that large infidel
Your Omar.
TENNYSON

RUBÁIYÁT
OF
OMAR KHAYYÁM,
THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA.

=Translated into English Verse.=

* * * * *

LONDON:
BERNARD QUARITCH,
CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE.
1859.

I know of no writings which combine, as
Cardinal Newman's do, so penetrating an
insight into the realities of the human
world around us in all its details, with
so unwavering an inwardness of standard
in estimating and judging that world; so
steady a knowledge of the true vanity of
human life with so steady a love for
that which is not vanity or vexation of
spirit.
HUTTON

APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA:

BEING

=A Reply to a Pamphlet=

ENTITLED

"WHAT, THEN, DOES DR. NEWMAN MEAN?"

"Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in Him, and He will do it.
And He will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment
as the noon-day."

BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, D.D.

LONDON:
LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, AND GREEN.
1864.

In his prose writings there was
discernible an intellectual _hauteur_
which contrasted with the uneasiness and
moral incertitude of his versified
moods, and which implied that a
dogmatist stood erect under the shifting
sensitiveness of the poet. A
dogmatist--for Mr. Arnold is not merely
a critic who interprets the minds of
other men through his sensitiveness and
his sympathies; he delivers with
authority the conclusions of his
intellect; he formulates ideas.
DOWDEN

ESSAYS IN CRITICISM.

BY
MATTHEW ARNOLD,
PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

=London and Cambridge:=
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1865.

The most faithful picture of our
northern winter that has yet been put
into poetry.
BURROUGHS

SNOW-BOUND.

A WINTER IDYL.

BY

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
1866.

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