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Elijah Fenton - His Poetry and Friends is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks ne...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Age of Pericles, Vol. 1: A History of the Politics and Arts of Greece From the Persian to the Peloponnesian WarAgain, as even Thucydides somewhat deviates in his sum mary, brief as it is, from his declared intention to adhere to chronological sequence, the modems have for the most part carried the deviation further, and declining to deal with what hints of order of time are salient, to say nothing of others that if obscure are...

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Excerpt from Xanthian Marbles: The Nereid Monument, An Historical and Mythological EssayThe elucidation of the composition of Homeric Lycia, throws light on that of Troy that has ever been an enigma. After every allowance made for Greek modes of representing foreign character, and for the unscrupulous liberties of the poetic sense of keeping, as explanatory of the great resem blance between the Greeks and Trojans of the Iliad, there still was ...

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Excerpt from The Age of Pericles, Vol. 2: A History of the Politics and Arts of Greece From the Persian to the Peloponnesian WarNeither the allies, who with hearty good will had conceded to Athens the control of defensive operations against Persia, nor the Spartans who had acquiesced in it, had anticipated how unchecked an authority the Athenian demus was des tined to acquire in consequence, and how resolutely it would be asserted. This was so...

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Excerpt from Elijah Fenton: His Poetry and Friends, A MonographI have indulged freely in quotations from Fenton's Poems for the reasons stated in the Life of F enton, having frequently been asked by persons living in the vicinity of the birthplace, and in my own Town of newcastle-under-lyme, where the works of Fenton were obtainable? No publication, I believe, of Fenton's works has taken place since 1822. His Poems, embellished with steel engr...

Excerpt from Critical Essays on the Plays of ShakespeareThe folly with which Stephano and Trinculo allow themselves to be diverted from their enterprise by the glittering frippery would, consciously or not, be heightened by recent note of the infatuated colonists, among whom, with failing supplies, there was no work, no talk, no hope, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, and from whom two ships had recently arrived, freighted with what was im...

Excerpt from Christianity in the Cartoons: Referred to Artistic Treatment and Historic FactUpon the band above this and immediately below the windows, the earlier painters had left represented the. Lives Of Moses and Jesus, in a succession of parallel incidents, advancing in historical order from the altar end of the chapel to the door.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ww...

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