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Excerpt from New Light on Pope: With Some Additions to His Poetry Hitherto UnknownA book of this kind could hardly have been begun, much less completed, without its author receiving more help and con sideration than one has any right to expect. First I must grate fully acknowledge my indebtedness to the private, but public spirited, owners of manuscripts and copyrights, who have most kindly allowed me to examine, transcribe, and print verse or...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...
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Excerpt from Life in Ancient Britain: A Survey of the Social and Economic Development of the People of England From Earliest Times to the Roman ConquestThe present volume is an attempt to supply this lack, and to give a succinct, scientifically reliable and. At the same time, readable account of the origins of our civilisation - an account which, it is hoped, may not only be useful for the upper forms of Schools and, as an introductory study, ...
Excerpt from A Religious AnthologyO God! If I worship Thee for fear of Hell, send me to Hell, and if I worship Thee in hopes of Paradise, withhold Paradise from me, but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, then withhold not from me the Eternal Beauty.Give to Thine enemies whatever Thou hast assigned to me of this world's goods, and to Thy friends whatever Thou hast assigned to me in the Life of the Hereafter, for Thou Thyself art sufficient f...
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Excerpt from New Light on Pope: With Some Additions to His Poetry Hitherto Unknown
A book of this kind could hardly have been begun, much less completed, without its author receiving more help and con sideration than one has any right to expect. First I must grate fully acknowledge my indebtedness to the private, but public spirited, owners of manuscripts and copyrights, who have most kindly allowed me to examine, transcribe, and print verse ...
Lyric Poetry of the Elizabethan Age By Norman Ault Originally published in London 1928. The purpose of this book is to present the lyric poetry of the Elizabethan Age as a living literary movement, the evolution of which can best be seen, not in the piecemeal study of individual writers, but only when their collective work is viewed chronologically and as an organic whole. Consequently the contents are arranged year by year according to the da...
Excerpt from Life in Ancient Britain: A Survey of the Social and Economic Development of the People of England From Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest
The idea that the everyday life of the people should be the chief concern of the historian has been familiar since the work of J. R. Green. As yet, however, little or no attempt has been made to apply this principle to what are known as "prehistoric" times. But in the development of the insti...
Excerpt from A Religious Anthology
O God! If I worship Thee for fear of Hell, send me to Hell, and if I worship Thee in hopes Of Paradise, withhold Paradise from me, but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, then withhold not from me the Eternal Beauty.
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