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Excerpt from A Londoner's LondonPreface, he said, always put him in mind of Hamlet's exclamation to the tardy player, Leave thy damnable faces, and begin 1 I delay to begin only to explain that the London of these pages is not the measureless town of the guide-books: that London on which a hundred and fifty years ago Horace Walpole began a book, only to faint and fail: that London which, still earlier, had been called a county covered with hou...

Excerpt from London in SongThis order is almost chronological. Pageantry and the keeping of festivals, having nearly vanished from London life, no longer inspire our poets. The notion of hailing and celebrating London on high occasions seems alien to modern ideas. One may regret this one may regret that the opportunities of last year were not taken, and that of the many poets who apostrophised the Empire and England a few did not glorify Londo...

Excerpt from London in SongThis order is almost chronological. Pageantry and the keeping of festivals, having nearly vanished from London life, no longer inspire our poets. The notion of hailing and celebrating London on high occasions seems alien to modern ideas. One may regret this one may regret that the opportunities of last year were not taken, and that of the many poets who apostrophised the Empire and England a few did not glorify Londo...

Excerpt from John G. Whittier: A Biographical SketchAnd let us hope, as well we can, That the silent angel who garners man May find some grain as of old he found In the human cornfield ripe and sound, And the Lord of the Harvest deign to own The precious seed by the fathers sown!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an impo...

Excerpt from Quaker PicturesIN a work on Quaker Pictures the first place naturally falls to portraits of George Fox. These are several in number. The earliest ofthcm we owe to Gerard iionthorst, a Dutch artist ofconsiderable repute in his day, and a native of Utrecht. It was while executing some commissions for Charles I. That Honthorst sclzedtheoppmtu111t\ otsketching the voung enthusiast whose name was doubtless already known at the court. H...

Excerpt from Twelve Masters of Prose Verse: With SelectionsMr. Joseph Simpson has drawn twelve beautiful portraits of Nineteenth Century writers, and I have selected passages from their works. In other words, he has provided the dish, and my smaller task has been to lay some parsley around it. In each case it has been my endeavour to select a passage which reveals the inner spirit of the writer as clearly as the portrait presents his features....

John G. Whittier - A biographical sketch is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892.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 ...