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Excerpt from Cowper's Shorter Poems: Edited With Introduction and NotesPreface, general introduction, poems A Fable, A Comparison, Another, Alexander Selkirk, Report of an Adjudged Case, The Lily and the Rose, The Nightingale and the glow-worm, On a. Goldfinch Starved to Death in his Cage, The Pineapple and the Bee, The Jackdaw, The Cricket Boadicea, Heroism, An Epistle to Joseph Hill.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of th...

Excerpt from Selections From Campbell: Edited With Introduction and NotesMy cordial thanks are due to my friend, Mr. James A. Aldis, late Headmaster of Queen Mary's School, Walsall, Who reviewed the Whole of the proofs, making several useful suggestions, and Who gave me much valuable help in the preparation of the General Introduction.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www...

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Military Memoir of Colonel John Birch is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. 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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Excerpt from Selected Epigrams of Martial: For English Readers Of all the Latin poets Martial is perhaps one of the least generally known and appreciated. And yet his merits as a writer are of the very highest order. His wit is so pointed, and at the same time so subtle and refined, so much depends upon the delicate turn of a phrase or even the mere position of a word, and such an added charm arises from the admirable terseness and vigour of ...

Excerpt from Aylmer's Field: With Introduction and Notes For part of the General Introduction to this volume I am indebted to my colleague, Mr. F. J. Rowe, whom, together with Mr. K. Deighton, I wish to thank for several valuable suggestions embodied in the Note. The Notes enclosed in brackets and signed H. T. have been sent by the Hon. Hallam Tennyson, to whom the proofs of this edition have been submitted. About the Publisher Forgotten B...

Excerpt from Cowper's Shorter Poems: Edited With Introduction and Notes It is hoped that this volume, while not exceeding the limits suitable to a book for the class-room, includes all the best of Cowper's shorter poems. In the Introductions prefixed to the Notes, and in the Notes themselves, I have not scrupled to quote freely from his Letters, both for their interest as commentaries upon the poems, and for their value as an index to the poe...

Excerpt from Selections From Campbell: Edited With Introduction and Notes My cordial thanks are due to my friend, Mr. James A. Aldis, late Headmaster of Queen Mary's School, Walsall, who reviewed the whole of the proofs, making several useful suggestions, and who gave me much valuable help in the preparation of the General Introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more ...

Excerpt from Selections From Cowper's Letters: Edited With Introduction and Notes In making this selection of Cowper's letters I have kept two main objects in view: to set forth all the phases of his life and character, and to illustrate his greatest work, The Task. For students of Cowper the book may thus form a useful companion volume to my edition of that poem in this Series. For much that is valuable in my Introduction my grateful acknow...

Excerpt from Celestial Objects, Vol. 1 of 2: For Common Telescopes The intention of the following treatise is to furnish the possessors of ordinary telescopes with plain directions for their use, and a list of objects for their advantageous employment. None but an eye-witness of the wonder and glory of the heavens can thoroughly understand how much they lose by description, or how inadequate an idea of them can be gathered in the usual mode,...

Excerpt from A Handbook of English Literature This book does not aim at originality, except as regards method of treatment. It opens with a brief general survey of English Literature, and then proceeds to give detailed accounts of particular authors whose works are used as text-books in Schools and Colleges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com Th...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Introduction: The intention of the following treatise is to furnish the possessors of ordinary telescopes with plain directions for their use, and a list of objects for their advantageous employment. None but an eye-witness of the wonder and glory of the heavens can thoroughly understand how much they lose by description, or how inadequate an idea of them can be gathered in the usual mode, from books and lectures. It is but the narrative of th...