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Excerpt from The Bibliography of Thackeray: A Bibliographical List Arranged in Chronological Order of the Published Writings in Prose and Verse and the Sketches and Drawings of William Makepeace Thackeray (From 1829 to 1880), A Companion and Supplement to the Edition De Luxe It should be added that the list of Thackerayana at the end makes no pretensions to be exhaustive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands o...

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Excerpt from Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton: Author of the Complete Angler With Notes and Preface Happy old man, whofe worth all mankind knows Except himfelf, who charitably Ihows The ready road to Virtue, and to Praife, The road to many long, and happy days The noble arts of generous piety, And how to compafs true felicity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and class...

Excerpt from Translations From Charles Baudelaire: With a Few Original Poems A Carcass. Recall to mind the sight we saw, my soul, That soft, sweet summer day: Upon a bed of flints a carrion foul, Just as we turn'd the way, Its legs erected, wanton-like, in air, Burning and sweating pest, In unconcern'd and cynic sort laid bare To view its noisome breast. The sun lit up the rottenness with gold, To bake it well inclined, And give gre...

Excerpt from The School of Pantagruel: An Essay "Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample, Catullus scarcely has a decent poem, I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example, Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample. But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one Beginning with 'Formosum Pastor Corydon.' "Lucretius' irreligion is too stron...

Excerpt from The Bibliography of Dickens: A Bibliographical List, Arranged in Chronological Order of the Published Writings in Prose and Verse of Charles Dickens (From 1834 to 1880)This was the first paper to which the author appended the signature of B02. The previous Sketches appeared anony mously.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a re...

Excerpt from The Bibliography of Ruskin: A Bibliographical List Arranged in Chronological Order of the Published Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin M.A., From 1834 to the Present Time (October 1878)Leoni. A Legend of Italy (prose), containing the Song, Full, broad, and bright is the silver light.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is ...

Excerpt from The Bibliography of Swinburne: A Bibliographical List, Arranged in Chronological Order, of the Published Writings in Verse and Prose of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1857-1887)Born on April 5, 1837, in the year of Queen Victoria's accession, of which the whole nation is now celebrating the Jubilee, algernon charles swinburne to-day attains the jubilee or fiftieth year of his own life, and may be therefore claimed as an essentially a...

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Excerpt from TennysonianaThe Preface of the young poets informs us that these pieces were written, not conjointly, but indivi dually, which may account for their difference of style and matter. In spite of this assurance, it is in some cases not easy to settle with anything like cer tainty the authorship of a particular piece. An atten tive comparison of these poems with later acknowledged writings of Alfred and Charles Tennyson has, however, ...

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Excerpt from The Bibliography of Ruskin: A Bibliographical List Arranged in Chronological Order of the Published Writings in Prose and Verse of John Ruskin, M. A., From 1834 to 1881 Facts and Considerations on the Strata of Mont Blanc, and on some instances of Twisted Strata observable in Switzerland, by J. R., dated March, (with three drawings by the author.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and c...

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