LYRICAL BALLADS,WITHA FEW OTHER POEMS.LONDON:PRINTED FOR J. & A. ARCH, GRACECHURCH-STREET.1798.
LYRICAL BALLADS,
WITH
A FEW OTHER POEMS.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR J. & A. ARCH, GRACECHURCH-STREET.
1798.
The history was hailed with delight as the most witty and original production from any American pen. The first foreign critic was Scott, who read it aloud in his family till their sides were sore with laughing.
Warner
A HISTORYOFNEW YORK,FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THEEND OF THE DUTCH DYNASTY.CONTAININGAmong many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings ofWalter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects ofWilliam the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievments ofPeter the Headstrong, the three Dutch Governors ofNew Amsterdam; being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been, or ever will be Published.BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.De waarheid die in duister lag,Die komt met klaarheid aan den dag.IN TWO VOLUMES.VOL. I.PUBLISHED BY INSKEEP & BRADFORD, NEW YORK; BRADFORD & INSKEEP, PHILADELPHIA; WM. M'ILHENNEY, BOSTON; COALE & THOMAS, BALTIMORE; AND MORFORD, WILLINGTON, & CO. CHARLESTON.1809.
A HISTORY
OF
NEW YORK,
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE
END OF THE DUTCH DYNASTY.
CONTAINING
Among many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings ofWalter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects ofWilliam the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievments ofPeter the Headstrong, the three Dutch Governors ofNew Amsterdam; being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been, or ever will be Published.
Among many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings ofWalter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects ofWilliam the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievments ofPeter the Headstrong, the three Dutch Governors ofNew Amsterdam; being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been, or ever will be Published.
BY DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER.
De waarheid die in duister lag,
Die komt met klaarheid aan den dag.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
PUBLISHED BY INSKEEP & BRADFORD, NEW YORK; BRADFORD & INSKEEP, PHILADELPHIA; WM. M'ILHENNEY, BOSTON; COALE & THOMAS, BALTIMORE; AND MORFORD, WILLINGTON, & CO. CHARLESTON.
PUBLISHED BY INSKEEP & BRADFORD, NEW YORK; BRADFORD & INSKEEP, PHILADELPHIA; WM. M'ILHENNEY, BOSTON; COALE & THOMAS, BALTIMORE; AND MORFORD, WILLINGTON, & CO. CHARLESTON.
1809.
The Pilgrim of Eternity whose fameOver his living head like heaven is bent.
The Pilgrim of Eternity whose fameOver his living head like heaven is bent.
Shelley
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.A ROMAUNT.BYLORD BYRON.L'univers est une espèce de livre, dont on n'a lu que la première page quand on n'a vu que son pays. J'en ai feuilleté un assez grand nombre, que j'ai trouvé également mauvaises. Cet examen ne m'a point été infructueux. Je haïssais ma patrie. Toutes les impertinences des peuples divers, parmi lesquels j'ai vécu, m'ont réconcilié avec elle. Quand je n'aurais tiré d'autre bénéfice de mes voyages que celui-là, je n'en regretterais ni les frais, ni les fatigues.Le Cosmopolite.LONDON:PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, 32, FLEET-STREET;WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; AND JOHN CUMMING, DUBLIN.By Thomas Davison, White-Friars.1812.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
A ROMAUNT.
BY
LORD BYRON.
L'univers est une espèce de livre, dont on n'a lu que la première page quand on n'a vu que son pays. J'en ai feuilleté un assez grand nombre, que j'ai trouvé également mauvaises. Cet examen ne m'a point été infructueux. Je haïssais ma patrie. Toutes les impertinences des peuples divers, parmi lesquels j'ai vécu, m'ont réconcilié avec elle. Quand je n'aurais tiré d'autre bénéfice de mes voyages que celui-là, je n'en regretterais ni les frais, ni les fatigues.
L'univers est une espèce de livre, dont on n'a lu que la première page quand on n'a vu que son pays. J'en ai feuilleté un assez grand nombre, que j'ai trouvé également mauvaises. Cet examen ne m'a point été infructueux. Je haïssais ma patrie. Toutes les impertinences des peuples divers, parmi lesquels j'ai vécu, m'ont réconcilié avec elle. Quand je n'aurais tiré d'autre bénéfice de mes voyages que celui-là, je n'en regretterais ni les frais, ni les fatigues.
Le Cosmopolite.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, 32, FLEET-STREET;
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; AND JOHN CUMMING, DUBLIN.
By Thomas Davison, White-Friars.
1812.
ReducedLeaf in original, 7.93 × 10.18 inches.
I read again, and for the third time, Miss Austen's very finely written novel ofPride and Prejudice. That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I have ever met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like any one going; but the exquisite touch, which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied me. What a pity so gifted a creature died so early!
Scott
PRIDEANDPREJUDICE:A NOVEL.IN THREE VOLUMES.BY THEAUTHOR OF "SENSE AND SENSIBILITY."VOL. I.London:PRINTED FOR T. EGERTON,MILITARY LIBRARY, WHITEHALL.1813.
PRIDE
AND
PREJUDICE:
A NOVEL.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
BY THE
AUTHOR OF "SENSE AND SENSIBILITY."
VOL. I.
London:
PRINTED FOR T. EGERTON,
MILITARY LIBRARY, WHITEHALL.
1813.
A subtle-souled psychologist
Shelley
CHRISTABEL:KUBLA KHAN,A VISION;THE PAINS OF SLEEP.BYS. T. COLERIDGE, ESQ.LONDON:PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET,BY WILLIAM BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW,ST. JAMES'S.1816.
CHRISTABEL:
KUBLA KHAN,
A VISION;
THE PAINS OF SLEEP.
BY
S. T. COLERIDGE, ESQ.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET,
BY WILLIAM BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW,
ST. JAMES'S.
1816.
O great and gallant Scott,True gentleman, heart, blood, and bone,I would it had been my lotTo have seen thee, and heard thee, and known.
O great and gallant Scott,True gentleman, heart, blood, and bone,I would it had been my lotTo have seen thee, and heard thee, and known.
Tennyson
IVANHOE;A ROMANCE.BY "THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY," &c.Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart,And often took leave,—but seem'd loth to depart!Prior.IN THREE VOLUMES.VOL. I.EDINBURGH:PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH.AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. 90, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.1820.
IVANHOE;
A ROMANCE.
BY "THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY," &c.
Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart,And often took leave,—but seem'd loth to depart!
Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart,And often took leave,—but seem'd loth to depart!
Prior.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH.
AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. 90, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.
1820.
He is made one with Nature: there is heardHis voice in all her music, from the moanOf thunder to the song of night's sweet bird;He is a presence to be felt and knownIn darkness and in light, from herb and stone,Spreading itself where'er that Power may moveWhich has withdrawn his being to its own;Which wields the world with never-wearied love,Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.Shelley
He is made one with Nature: there is heardHis voice in all her music, from the moanOf thunder to the song of night's sweet bird;He is a presence to be felt and knownIn darkness and in light, from herb and stone,Spreading itself where'er that Power may moveWhich has withdrawn his being to its own;Which wields the world with never-wearied love,Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.Shelley
Shelley
LAMIA,ISABELLA,THE EVE OF ST. AGNES,ANDOTHER POEMS.BY JOHN KEATS,AUTHOR OF ENDYMION.LONDON:PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND HESSEY,FLEET-STREET.1820.
LAMIA,
ISABELLA,
THE EVE OF ST. AGNES,
AND
OTHER POEMS.
BY JOHN KEATS,
AUTHOR OF ENDYMION.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND HESSEY,
FLEET-STREET.
1820.
Cor cordium
Epitaph
ADONAISAN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS,AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION ETC.BYPERCY. B. SHELLEYἈστὴρ πρὶν μὲν ἔλαμπες ἐνὶ ζωοῖσιν ἑῷος.Νῦν δὲ θανὼν λάμπεις Ἕσπερος ἐν φθιμένοις.PLATO.PISAWITH THE TYPES OF DIDOTMDCCCXXI.
ADONAIS
AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS,
AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION ETC.
BY
PERCY. B. SHELLEY
Ἀστὴρ πρὶν μὲν ἔλαμπες ἐνὶ ζωοῖσιν ἑῷος.
Νῦν δὲ θανὼν λάμπεις Ἕσπερος ἐν φθιμένοις.
PLATO.
PISA
WITH THE TYPES OF DIDOT
MDCCCXXI.
ReducedLeaf in original, 7.43 × 10.06 inches.
And the more we walk around his image, and the closer we look, the more nearly we arrive at this conclusion, that theEliaon our shelves is all but the same being as the pleasant Charles who was so loved by his friends, who ransomed from the stalls, to use old Richard of Bury's phrase, his Thomas Browne and the "dear silly old angel" Fuller, and who stammered out such quaint jests and puns—"Saint Charles," as Thackeray once called him, while looking at one of his half-mad letters, and remembering his devotion to that quite mad sister.
Fitzgerald
ELIA.ESSAYS WHICH HAVE APPEARED UNDER THAT SIGNATUREIN THELONDON MAGAZINE.LONDON:PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND HESSEY,FLEET-STREET.1823.
ELIA.
ESSAYS WHICH HAVE APPEARED UNDER THAT SIGNATURE
IN THE
LONDON MAGAZINE.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR TAYLOR AND HESSEY,
FLEET-STREET.
1823.
The most confiding of diarists, the most harmless of turncoats, the most wondering ofquidnuncs, the fondest and most penitential of faithless husbands, the most admiring, yet grieving, of the beholders of the ladies of Charles II, the Sancho Panza of the most insipid of Quixotes, James II, who did bestow on him (in naval matters) the government of a certain "island," which, to say the truth, he administered to the surprise and edification of all who bantered him. Many official patriots have, doubtless, existed since his time, and thousands, nay millions of respectable men of all sorts gone to their long account, more or less grave in public, and frail to their consciences; but when shall we meet with such another as he was?
Hunt
MEMOIRSOFSAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ. F.R.S.SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTYIN THE REIGNS OF CHARLES II. AND JAMES II.COMPRISINGH I S D I A R YFROM 1659 TO 1669,DECIPHERED BY THE REV. JOHN SMITH, A. B. OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,FROM THE ORIGINAL SHORT-HAND MS. IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY,AND A SELECTION FROM HISP R I V A T E C O R R E S P O N D E N C E.(Illustration)EDITED BYRICHARD, LORD BRAYBROOKE.IN TWO VOLUMES.VOL. I.LONDON:HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.MDCCCXXV.
MEMOIRS
OF
SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ. F.R.S.
SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
IN THE REIGNS OF CHARLES II. AND JAMES II.
COMPRISING
H I S D I A R Y
FROM 1659 TO 1669,
DECIPHERED BY THE REV. JOHN SMITH, A. B. OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,
FROM THE ORIGINAL SHORT-HAND MS. IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY,
AND A SELECTION FROM HIS
P R I V A T E C O R R E S P O N D E N C E.
(Illustration)
EDITED BY
RICHARD, LORD BRAYBROOKE.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
MDCCCXXV.
ReducedLeaf in original, 9.25 × 11.87 inches.
While the love of country continues to prevail, his memory will exist in the hearts of the people.
Webster
THE LASTOFTHE MOHICANS;A NARRATIVE OF1757.BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE PIONEERS.""Mislike me not, for my complexion,The shadowed livery of the burnished sun."IN TWO VOLUMES.VOL. I.PHILADELPHIA:H. C. CAREY & I. LEA—CHESNUT-STREET.1826.
THE LAST
OF
THE MOHICANS;
A NARRATIVE OF
1757.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE PIONEERS."
"Mislike me not, for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun."
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
PHILADELPHIA:
H. C. CAREY & I. LEA—CHESNUT-STREET.
1826.
And through the trumpet of a child of RomeRang the pure music of the flutes of Greece.
And through the trumpet of a child of RomeRang the pure music of the flutes of Greece.
Swinburne
PERICLES AND ASPASIABYWALTER SAVAGE LANDOR,Esq.IN TWO VOLUMES.VOL. I.LONDONSAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET.1836.
PERICLES AND ASPASIA
BY
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR,Esq.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON
SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET.
1836.
Thankfully I take my share of love and kindness which this generous and gentle and charitable soul has contributed to the world. I take and enjoy my share and say a benediction for the meal.
Thackeray
THEPICKWICK PAPERS.BYCHARLES DICKENS.(Illustration: PHIZ. feat.)LONDONCHAPMANandHALL 186 STRANDMDCCCXXXVII.
THE
PICKWICK PAPERS.
BY
CHARLES DICKENS.
(Illustration: PHIZ. feat.)
LONDON
CHAPMANandHALL 186 STRAND
MDCCCXXXVII.
Carlyle alone with his wide humanity has, since Coleridge, kept to us the promises of England. His provokes rather than informs. He blows down narrow walls, and struggles, in a lurid light, like the Jótuns, to throw the old woman Time; in his work there is too much of the anvil and the forge, not enough hay-making under the sun. He makes us act rather than think; he does not say, know thyself, which is impossible, but know thy work. He has no pillars of Hercules, no clear goal, but an endless Atlantis horizon. He exaggerates. Yes: but he makes the hour great, the future bright, the reverence and admiration strong: while mere precise fact is a coil of lead.
Thoreau
SARTOR RESARTUS.IN THREE BOOKS.Reprinted for Friends from Fraser's Magazine.Mein Vermächtniss, wie herrlich weit und breit!Die Zeit ist mein Vermächtniss, mein Acker ist die Zeit.LONDON:JAMES FRASER, 215 REGENT STREET.M.DCCC.XXXIV.
SARTOR RESARTUS.
IN THREE BOOKS.
Reprinted for Friends from Fraser's Magazine.
Mein Vermächtniss, wie herrlich weit und breit!
Die Zeit ist mein Vermächtniss, mein Acker ist die Zeit.
LONDON:
JAMES FRASER, 215 REGENT STREET.
M.DCCC.XXXIV.
It was good to meet him in the wood-paths with that pure intellectual gleam diffused about his presence, like the garment of a shining one; and he so quiet, so simple, so without pretension, encountering each man as if expecting to receive more than he could impart.
Hawthorne
NATURE."Nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know."Plotinus.BOSTON:JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.M DCCC XXXVI.
NATURE.
"Nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know."
"Nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know."
Plotinus.
BOSTON:
JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.
M DCCC XXXVI.
The result of all his labors of research, thought and composition was a history possessing the unity, variety and interest of a magnificent poem.
Whipple
HISTORYOF THECONQUEST OF PERU,WITH A PRELIMINARY VIEWOF THECIVILIZATION OF THE INCAS.BYWILLIAM H. PRESCOTT,CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE; OF THE ROYAL ACADEMYOF HISTORY AT MADRID, ETC."Congestæ cumulantur opes, orbisque rapinasAccipit."Claudian, In Ruf., lib. i., v. 194."So color de religionVan a buscar plata y oroDel encubierto tesoro."Lope de Vega, El Nuevo Mundo, Jorn. 1.IN TWO VOLUMES.VOLUME I.NEW YORK:HARPER AND BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET.M DCCC XLVII.
HISTORY
OF THE
CONQUEST OF PERU,
WITH A PRELIMINARY VIEW
OF THE
CIVILIZATION OF THE INCAS.
BY
WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT,
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE; OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY
OF HISTORY AT MADRID, ETC.
"Congestæ cumulantur opes, orbisque rapinasAccipit."Claudian, In Ruf., lib. i., v. 194."So color de religionVan a buscar plata y oroDel encubierto tesoro."Lope de Vega, El Nuevo Mundo, Jorn. 1.
"Congestæ cumulantur opes, orbisque rapinasAccipit."Claudian, In Ruf., lib. i., v. 194.
"So color de religionVan a buscar plata y oroDel encubierto tesoro."Lope de Vega, El Nuevo Mundo, Jorn. 1.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOLUME I.
NEW YORK:
HARPER AND BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET.
M DCCC XLVII.
When all is said, Poe remains a master of fantastic and melancholy sound. Some foolish old legend tells of a musician who surpassed all his rivals. His strains were unearthly sad, and ravished the ears of those who listened with a strange melancholy. Yet his viol had but a single string, and the framework was fashioned out of a dead woman's breast-bone. Poe's verse—the parallel is much in his own taste—resembles that player's minstrelsy.
Lang
THE RAVENANDOTHER POEMSBYEDGAR A. POE.NEW YORK:WILEY AND PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY.1845.
THE RAVEN
AND
OTHER POEMS
BY
EDGAR A. POE.
NEW YORK:
WILEY AND PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY.
1845.
Strew with laurel the graveOf the early-dying! Alas,Early she goes on the pathTo the silent country, and leavesHalf her laurels unwon,Dying too soon!—yet greenLaurels she had, and a courseShort, but redoubled by fame.
Strew with laurel the graveOf the early-dying! Alas,Early she goes on the pathTo the silent country, and leavesHalf her laurels unwon,Dying too soon!—yet greenLaurels she had, and a courseShort, but redoubled by fame.
Arnold
JANE EYRE.An Autobiography.EDITED BYCURRER BELL.IN THREE VOLUMES.VOL. I.LONDON:SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., CORNHILL.1847.
JANE EYRE.
An Autobiography.
EDITED BY
CURRER BELL.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., CORNHILL.
1847.
The poem already is a little classic, and will remain one, just as surely asThe Vicar of Wakefield,The Deserted Village, or any other sweet and pious idyl of our English tongue.
Stedman
EVANGELINE,ATALE OF ACADIE.BYHENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.BOSTON:WILLIAM D. TICKNOR & COMPANY.1847.
EVANGELINE,
A
TALE OF ACADIE.
BY
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
BOSTON:
WILLIAM D. TICKNOR & COMPANY.
1847.
The most exquisite poetry hitherto written by a woman.
Stedman
SONNETS.BYE. B. B.READING:[NOT FOR PUBLICATION.]1847.
SONNETS.
BY
E. B. B.
READING:
[NOT FOR PUBLICATION.]
1847.
What racy talks of Yankee-land he had!Up-country girl, up-country farmer-lad;The regnant clergy of the time of oldIn wig and gown:—tales not to be retold.
What racy talks of Yankee-land he had!Up-country girl, up-country farmer-lad;The regnant clergy of the time of oldIn wig and gown:—tales not to be retold.
Clough
MELIBŒUS-HIPPONAX.THEBiglow Papers,EDITED,WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES, GLOSSARY,AND COPIOUS INDEX,BYHOMER WILBUR, A. M.,PASTOR OF THIS FIRST CHURCH IN JAALAM, AND (PROSPECTIVE) MEMBER OFMANY LITERARY, LEARNED AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES,(for which see page v.)The ploughman's whistle, or the trivial flute,Finds more respect than great Apollo's lute.Quarles's Emblems, B. II. E. 8.Margaritas, munde porcine, calcâsti: en, siliquas accipe.Jac. Car. Fil. ad Pub. Leg. §1.CAMBRIDGE:PUBLISHED BY GEORGE NICHOLS.1848.
MELIBŒUS-HIPPONAX.
THE
Biglow Papers,
EDITED,
WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES, GLOSSARY,
AND COPIOUS INDEX,
BY
HOMER WILBUR, A. M.,
PASTOR OF THIS FIRST CHURCH IN JAALAM, AND (PROSPECTIVE) MEMBER OF
MANY LITERARY, LEARNED AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES,
(for which see page v.)
The ploughman's whistle, or the trivial flute,Finds more respect than great Apollo's lute.
Quarles's Emblems, B. II. E. 8.
Margaritas, munde porcine, calcâsti: en, siliquas accipe.
Jac. Car. Fil. ad Pub. Leg. §1.
CAMBRIDGE:
PUBLISHED BY GEORGE NICHOLS.
1848.
There is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to tickle delicate ears; who, to my thinking, comes before the great ones of society much as the son of Imlah came before the throned Kings of Judah and Israel; and who speaks truth as deep, with a power as prophet-like and as vital—a mien as dauntless and as daring. Is the satirist ofVanity Fairadmired in high places?—They say he is like Fielding; they talk of his wit, humour, comic powers. He resembles Fielding as an eagle does a vulture: Fielding could stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere lambent sheet-lightning, playing under the edge of the summer cloud, does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb.
Brontë
VANITY FAIRA Novel without a Hero.BYWILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.(Illustration)LONDONBRADBURY & EVANS, BOUVERIE STREET,1848
VANITY FAIR
A Novel without a Hero.
BY
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
(Illustration)
LONDON
BRADBURY & EVANS, BOUVERIE STREET,
1848
The cleverest and most fascinating of narrators.
Freeman
THEHISTORY OF ENGLANDFROMTHE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.BYTHOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.VOLUME I.LONDON:PRINTED FORLONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,PATERNOSTER-ROW.1849.
THE
HISTORY OF ENGLAND
FROM
THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.
BY
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.
VOLUME I.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1849.
Shakespeare and Milton—what third blazoned nameShall lips of after-ages link to these?His who, beside the wild encircling seas,Was England's voice, her voice with one acclaim,For threescore years; whose word of praise was fame,Whose scorn gave pause to man's iniquities.What strain was his in that Crimean war?A bugle call in battle, a low breath,Plaintive and sweet above the fields of death!So year by year the music rolled afar,From Euxine wastes to flowery Kandahar,Bearing the laurel or the cypress wreath.Others shall have their little space of time,Their proper niche and bust, then fade awayInto the darkness, poets of a day;But thou, O builder of enduring rhyme,Thou shalt not pass! Thy fame in every climeOn earth shall live where Saxon speech has sway.
Shakespeare and Milton—what third blazoned nameShall lips of after-ages link to these?His who, beside the wild encircling seas,Was England's voice, her voice with one acclaim,For threescore years; whose word of praise was fame,Whose scorn gave pause to man's iniquities.
What strain was his in that Crimean war?A bugle call in battle, a low breath,Plaintive and sweet above the fields of death!So year by year the music rolled afar,From Euxine wastes to flowery Kandahar,Bearing the laurel or the cypress wreath.
Others shall have their little space of time,Their proper niche and bust, then fade awayInto the darkness, poets of a day;But thou, O builder of enduring rhyme,Thou shalt not pass! Thy fame in every climeOn earth shall live where Saxon speech has sway.
Aldrich
IN MEMORIAM.LONDON.EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.1850.
IN MEMORIAM.
LONDON.
EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.
1850.
New England's poet, soul reserved and deep,November nature with a name of May.
New England's poet, soul reserved and deep,November nature with a name of May.
Lowell
THESCARLET LETTER,A ROMANCE.BYNATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.BOSTON:TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDSM DCCC L.
THE
SCARLET LETTER,
A ROMANCE.
BY
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
BOSTON:
TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS
M DCCC L.
That is a book you should read: Works of imagination written with an aim to immediate impression are commonly ephemeral; but the creative faculty of Mrs. Stowe, like that of Cervantes inDon Quixoteand of Fielding inJoseph Andrews, overpowered the narrow specialty of her design, and expanded a local and temporary theme with the cosmopolitanism of genius.
Lowell
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN;OR,LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY.BYHARRIET BEECHER STOWE.(Illustration)VOL. I.BOSTON:JOHN P. JEWETT & COMPANY.CLEVELAND, OHIO:JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON.1852.
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN;
OR,
LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY.
BY
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
(Illustration)
VOL. I.
BOSTON:
JOHN P. JEWETT & COMPANY.
CLEVELAND, OHIO:
JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON.
1852.
A strange, unexpected and, I believe, most true and excellentsermonin Stones—as well as the best piece of school-mastery in architectonics.
Carlyle
THEStones of Venice.VOLUME THE FIRST.The Foundations.BY JOHN RUSKIN,AUTHOR OF "THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE," "MODERN PAINTERS,"ETC. ETC.WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR.LONDON:SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., 65. CORNHILL.1851.
THE
Stones of Venice.
VOLUME THE FIRST.
The Foundations.
BY JOHN RUSKIN,
AUTHOR OF "THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE," "MODERN PAINTERS,"
ETC. ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR.
LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., 65. CORNHILL.
1851.
ReducedLeaf in orignal 7 x 10 inches.
There is delight in singing, tho' none hearBesides the singer; and there is delightIn praising, tho' the praiser sit aloneAnd see the prais'd far off him, far above.Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's;Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,No man hath walkt along our roads with stepSo active, so inquiring eye, or tongueSo varied in discovery. But warmer climesGive brighter plumage, stronger wing: the breezeOf Alpine hights thou playest with, borne onBeyond Sorrento and Amalfi, whereThe Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
There is delight in singing, tho' none hearBesides the singer; and there is delightIn praising, tho' the praiser sit aloneAnd see the prais'd far off him, far above.Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's;Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,No man hath walkt along our roads with stepSo active, so inquiring eye, or tongueSo varied in discovery. But warmer climesGive brighter plumage, stronger wing: the breezeOf Alpine hights thou playest with, borne onBeyond Sorrento and Amalfi, whereThe Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Landor
MEN AND WOMEN.BYROBERT BROWNING.IN TWO VOLUMES.VOL. I.LONDON:CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.1855.
MEN AND WOMEN.
BY
ROBERT BROWNING.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1855.
Far from making his book a mere register of events, he has penetrated deep below the surface and explored the causes of these events. He has carefully studied the physiognomy of the times and given finished portraits of the great men who conducted the march of the revolution.
Prescott
THE RISEOF THEDUTCH REPUBLIC.A History.BY JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.IN THREE VOLUMES.VOL I.NEW YORK:HARPER & BROTHERS,329 & 331 PEARL STREET.1856.
THE RISE
OF THE
DUTCH REPUBLIC.
A History.
BY JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL I.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS,
329 & 331 PEARL STREET.
1856.
The sphere which she has made specially her own is that quiet English country life which she knew in early youth. She has done for it what Scott did for the Scotch peasantry, or Fielding for the eighteenth century Englishman, or Thackeray for the higher social stratum of his time.
Stephen