On Ellis's Specimens of the early English poets. Ellis' and Ritson's Specimens of early English metrical romances. Godwin's life of Chaucer. Todd's edition of Spenser. Herbert's poems Evans's Old ballads. Moliere. Chatterton. Reliques of Burns. Compbell's Gertrude of Wyoming. The battles of Talavera; a poem. Southey's Curse of Kehama. Childe Harold's pilgrimage, canto IV. Amadis of Gaul. Southey's Chronicle of the Cid. Southey's Life of John Bunyan. Godwin's Fleetwood. Cumberland's John De Lancaster. Maturin's Fatal revenge. Maturin's Women; or, Pour et contre. Miss Austen's novels. Remarks on Frankenstein

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Stran 182 - He was as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran." In general society Burns often permitted his determination of vindicating his personal dignity to hurry him into unjustifiable resentment of slight or imagined neglect. He was ever anxious to maintain his post
Stran 248 - The former greatness of this queen of commerce is described and mingled with the recollections associated with her name, from the immortal works of fiction of which she has formed the scene. " But unto us she hath a spell beyond Her name in story, and her long array Of mighty shadows, whose dim forms despond
Stran 437 - seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set— his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips. " It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me,
Stran 429 - love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or •when hope is gone.' " She could not immediately have uttered another sentence: her heart was too full, her breath too much oppressed."—Vol.
Stran 251 - But them, Clitumnus! in thy sweetest wave Of the most living crystal that was e'er The haunt of river-nymph, to gaze and lave Her limbs where nothing hid them, thou dost rear The grassy bank whereon the milk-white steer Grazes; the purest god of gentle waters! And most serene of aspect, and most clear; Surely that stream was
Stran 177 - Does the train-attended carriage Through the country lighter rove? Does the sober bed of marriage Witness brighter scenes of love? A fig, &c. Life is all a variorum, We regard not how it goes, Let them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose.
Stran 428 - and constancy were known only by woman. No, I believe you capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as—if I may be allowed the expression—so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman
Stran 177 - in the Beggars' Opera, where alone we could expect to find its parallel. " Then ou're again, the jovial thrang The poet did request, To loose his pack an" wale a sang, A ballad o' the best: He rising, rejoicing Between his twa Deborahs, Looks round him, an' found them Impatient for the chorus. AIR.
Stran 203 - Ev'n from the land of shadows now My father's awful ghost appears; Amidst the clouds that round us roll, He bids my soul for battle thirst— He bids me dry the last—the first— The only tears that ever burst— Prom Outalissi's soul;— Because I may not stain with grief The death-song of an Indian chief.
Stran 438 - and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life. "Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned, and discovered, to my sleepless and aching eyes, the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour. The porter

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