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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42877 ***
+
+ The Committee on Publications of the Grolier Club
+ certifies that this copy of "One Hundred Books
+ Famous in English Literature" is one of three
+ hundred and five copies printed on hand-made
+ paper, and that all were printed during the year
+ nineteen hundred and two.
+
+
+
+
+ ONE HUNDRED BOOKS
+ FAMOUS IN
+ ENGLISH LITERATURE
+
+
+
+
+ ONE HUNDRED BOOKS
+ FAMOUS IN
+ ENGLISH LITERATURE
+
+ WITH FACSIMILES OF
+ THE TITLE-PAGES
+
+ AND AN INTRODUCTION BY
+ GEORGE E. WOODBERRY
+
+
+
+
+ THE GROLIER CLUB
+ OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
+ M CM II
+
+
+
+
+ Copyright, 1902, by
+ THE GROLIER CLUB OF THE
+ CITY OF NEW YORK
+
+
+
+
+ FACSIMILE TITLES
+
+ TITLE AUTHOR DATE PAGE
+
+ First Page of the Canterbury Tales Chaucer 1478 3
+
+ First Page of the Confessio Amantis Gower 1483 5
+
+ First Page of the Morte Arthure Malory 1485 7
+
+ The Booke of Common Praier 1549 9
+
+ The Vision of Pierce Plowman Langland 1550 11
+
+ Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and
+ Ireland Holinshed 1577 13
+
+ A Myrrour for Magistrates 1563 15
+
+ Songes and Sonettes Surrey 1567 17
+
+ The Tragidie of Ferrex and Porrex Sackville 1570 19
+
+ Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit Lylie 1579 21
+
+ The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia Sidney 1590 23
+
+ The Faerie Queene Spenser 1590 25
+
+ Essaies Bacon 1598 27
+
+ The Principal Navigations, Voiages,
+ Traffiques and Discoveries of the
+ English Nation Hakluyt 1598 29
+
+ The Whole Works of Homer Chapman 1611 31
+
+ The Holy Bible King James's 1611 33
+ Version
+
+ The Workes of Benjamin Jonson Jonson 1616 35
+
+ The Anatomy of Melancholy Burton 1621 37
+
+ Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies,
+ Histories, & Tragedies Shakespeare 1623 39
+
+ The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy Webster 1623 41
+
+ A New Way to Pay Old Debts Massinger 1633 43
+
+ The Broken Heart Ford 1633 45
+
+ The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of
+ Malta Marlowe 1633 47
+
+ The Temple Herbert 1633 49
+
+ Poems Donne 1633 51
+
+ Religio Medici Browne 1642 53
+
+ The Workes of Edmond Waller Esquire 1645 55
+
+ Comedies and Tragedies Beaumont 1647 57
+ and Fletcher
+
+ Hesperides Herrick 1648 59
+
+ The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living Taylor 1650 61
+
+ The Compleat Angler Walton 1653 63
+
+ Hudibras Butler 1663 65
+
+ Paradise Lost Milton 1667 67
+
+ The Pilgrims Progress Bunyan 1678 69
+
+ Absalom and Achitophel Dryden 1681 71
+
+ An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Locke 1690 73
+
+ The Way of the World Congreve 1700 75
+
+ The History of the Rebellion and Civil
+ Wars in England Clarendon 1702 77
+
+ The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff Steele 1710 79
+ Esq.
+
+ The Spectator Addison 1711 81
+
+ The Life and Strange Surprizing
+ Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Defoe 1719 83
+
+ Travels into Several Remote Nations of
+ the World Swift 1726 85
+
+ An Essay on Man Pope 1733 87
+
+ The Analogy of Religion Butler 1736 89
+
+ Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Percy 1765 91
+
+ Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegoric
+ Subjects Collins 1747 93
+
+ Clarissa Richardson 1748 95
+
+ The History of Tom Jones Fielding 1749 97
+
+ An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard Gray 1751 99
+
+ A Dictionary of the English Language Johnson 1755 101
+
+ Poor Richard's Almanack Franklin 1758 103
+
+ Commentaries on the Laws of England Blackstone 1765 105
+
+ The Vicar of Wakefield Goldsmith 1766 107
+
+ A Sentimental Journey Sterne 1768 109
+
+ The Federalist 1788 111
+
+ The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Smollett 16[7]71 113
+
+ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of
+ the Wealth of Nations Smith 1776 115
+
+ The History of the Decline and Fall of
+ the Roman Empire Gibbon 1776 117
+
+ The School for Scandal Sheridan 1777 119
+
+ The Task Cowper 1785 121
+
+ Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect Burns 1786 123
+
+ The Natural History and Antiquities of
+ Selborne White 1789 125
+
+ Reflections on the Revolution in France Burke 1790 127
+
+ Rights of Man Paine 1791 129
+
+ The Life of Samuel Johnson Boswell 1791 131
+
+ Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth 1798 133
+
+ A History of New York, from the Beginning
+ of the World to the End of the
+ Dutch Dynasty Irving 1809 135
+
+ Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Byron 1812 137
+
+ Pride and Prejudice Austen 1813 139
+
+ Christabel Coleridge 1816 141
+
+ Ivanhoe Scott 1820 143
+
+ Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes,
+ and Other Poems Keats 1820 145
+
+ Adonais Shelley 1821 147
+
+ Elia Lamb 1823 149
+
+ Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Pepys 1825 151
+
+ The Last of the Mohicans Cooper 1826 153
+
+ Pericles and Aspasia Landor 1836 155
+
+ The Pickwick Papers Dickens 1837 157
+
+ Sartor Resartus Carlyle 1834 159
+
+ Nature Emerson 1836 161
+
+ History of the Conquest of Peru Prescott 1847 163
+
+ The Raven and Other Poems Poe 1845 165
+
+ Jane Eyre Brontë 1847 167
+
+ Evangeline Longfellow 1847 169
+
+ Sonnets Mrs. Browning 1847 171
+
+ The Biglow Papers Lowell 1848 173
+
+ Vanity Fair Thackeray 1848 175
+
+ The History of England Macaulay 1849 177
+
+ In Memoriam Tennyson 1850 179
+
+ The Scarlet Letter Hawthorne 1850 181
+
+ Uncle Tom's Cabin Mrs. Stowe 1852 183
+
+ The Stones of Venice Ruskin 1851 185
+
+ Men and Women Browning 1855 187
+
+ The Rise of the Dutch Republic Motley 1856 189
+
+ Adam Bede George Eliot 1859 191
+
+ On the Origin of Species by Means of
+ Natural Selection Darwin 1859 193
+
+ Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Fitzgerald 1859 195
+
+ Apologia pro Vita Sua Newman 1864 197
+
+ Essays in Criticism Arnold 1865 199
+
+ Snow-Bound Whittier 1866 201
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Except where noted, all facsimiles of title-pages
+ are of the size of those in the original editions.
+
+
+
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ INTRODUCTION
+
+
+A BOOK is judged by its peers. In the presence of the greater works of
+authors there is no room for personal criticism; they constitute in
+themselves the perpetual mind of the race, and dispense with any private
+view. The eye rests on these hundred titles of books famous in English
+literature, as it reads a physical map by peak, river and coast, and
+sees in miniature the intellectual conformation of a nation. A different
+selection would only mean another point of view; some minor features
+might be replaced by others of similar subordination; but the mass of
+imagination and learning, the mind-achievement of the English race, is
+as unchangeable as a mountain landscape. Perspective thrusts its
+unconscious judgment upon the organs of sight, also; if Gower is thin
+with distance and the clump of the Elizabethans shows crowded with low
+spurs, the eye is not therefore deceived by the large pettiness of the
+foreground with its more numerous and distinct details. The mass
+governs. Darwin appeals to Milton; Shelley is judged by Pope, and
+Hawthorne by Congreve.
+
+These books must of necessity be national books; for fame, which is
+essentially the highest gift of which man has the giving, cannot be
+conferred except by a public voice. Fame dwells upon the lips of men. It
+is not that memorable books must all be people's books, though the
+greatest are such--the Book of Common Prayer, the Bible, Shakespeare;
+but those which embody some rare intellectual power, or illuminate some
+seldom visited tract of the spirit, or merely display some peculiar
+taste in learning or pastime, must yet have something racial in them,
+something public, to secure their hold against the detaching power of
+time; they must be English books, not in tongue only, but body and soul.
+They are not less the books of a nation because they are remote,
+superfine, uncommon. Such are the books of the poets--the Faërie Queene;
+books of the nobles--Arcadia; books of the scholar--the Anatomy of
+Melancholy. These books open the national genius as truly, kind by kind,
+as books of knowledge exhibit the nation's advancement in learning,
+stage by stage, when new sciences are brought to the birth. The Wealth
+of Nations, Locke's Essay, Blackstone's Commentaries, are not merely the
+product of private minds. They are landmarks of English intellect; and
+more, since they pass insensibly into the power of civilization in the
+land, feeding the general mind. The limited appeal that many classics
+made in their age, and still make, indicates lack of development in
+particular persons; but however numerous such individuals may be, in
+whatever majorities they may mass, the mind of the race, once having
+flowered, has flowered with the vigor of the stock. The Compleat Angler
+finds a rustic breast under much staid cloth; Pepys was never at a loss
+for a gossip since his seals were broken, and Donne evokes his
+fellow-eccentric whose hermitage is the scholar's bosom; but whether the
+charm work on few or on many is indifferent, for whom they affect, they
+affect through consanguinity. The books of a nation are those which are
+appropriate to its genius and embody its variations amid the changes of
+time; even its sports, like Euphues, are itself; and the works which
+denote the evolution of its civilized life in fructifying progress,
+whose increasing diversities are yet held in the higher harmony of one
+race, one temperament, one destiny, are without metaphor its Sibylline
+books, and true oracles of empire.
+
+It is a sign of race in literature that a book can spare what is private
+to its author, and comes at last to forgo his earth-life altogether.
+This is obvious of works of knowledge, since positive truth gains
+nothing from personality, but feels it as an alloy; and a wise analysis
+will affirm the same of all long-lived books. Works of science are
+charters of nature, and submit to no human caprice; and, in a similar
+way, works of imagination, which are to the inward world of the spirit
+what works of science are to the natural universe, are charters of the
+soul, and borrow nothing from the hand that wrote them. How deciduous
+such books are of the private life needs only to be stated to be
+allowed. They cast biography from them like the cloak of the ascending
+prophet. An author is not rightly to be reckoned among immortals until
+he has been forgotten as a man, and become a shade in human memory, the
+myth of his own work. The anecdote lingering in the Mermaid Tavern is
+cocoon-stuff, and left for waste; time spiritualizes the soul it
+released in Shakespeare, and the speedier the change, so much the purer
+is the warrant of a life above death in the minds of men. The loneliness
+of antique names is the austerity of fame, and only therewith do Milton,
+Spenser, Chaucer, seem nobly clad and among equals; the nude figure of
+Shelley at Oxford is symbolical and prophetic of this disencumberment of
+mortality, the freed soul of the poet,--like Bion, a divine form. Not to
+speak of those greatest works, the Prayer Book, the Bible, which seem so
+impersonal in origin as to be the creation of the English tongue itself
+and the genius of language adoring God; nor of Hakluyt or Clarendon,
+whose books are all men's actions; how little do the most isolated and
+seclusive authors, Surrey, Collins, Keats, perpetuate except the pure
+poet! In these hundred famous books there are few valued for aught more
+than they contain in themselves, or which require any other light to
+read them by than what they bring with them; they are rather hampered
+than helped by the recollection of their authors' careers. Sidney adds
+lustre to the Arcadia; an exception among men, in this as in all other
+ways, by virtue of that something supereminent in him which dazzled his
+own age. But who else of famous authors is greater in his life than in
+his book? It is the book that gives significance to the man, not the man
+to the book. These authors would gain by oblivion of themselves, and
+that in proportion to their greatness, thereby being at once removed
+into the impersonal region of man's permanent spirit and of art. The
+exceptions are only seemingly such; it is Johnson's thought and the
+style of a great mind that preserve Boswell, not his human grossness;
+and in Pepys it is the mundane and every-day immortality of human
+nature, this permanently curious and impertinent world, not his own
+scandal and peepings, that yield him allowance in libraries. In all
+books to which a nation stands heir, it is man that survives,--the
+aspect of an epoch, the phase of a religion, the mood of a generation,
+the taste, sentiment, thought, pursuit, entertainment, of a historic and
+diversified people. There is nothing accidental in the fact that of
+these hundred books forty-six bear no author's name upon the title-page;
+nor is this due merely to the eldest style of printing, as with Chaucer,
+Gower, Malory, Langland; nor to the inclusion of works by several
+hands--the Book of Common Prayer, the Mirror for Magistrates, the
+Tatler, the Spectator, the Reliques, the Federalist; nor to the use of
+initials, as in the case of Donne and Mrs. Browning. The characteristic
+is constant. It is interesting to note the names thus self-suppressed:
+Sackville, Spenser, Bacon, Burton, Browne, Walton, Butler, Dryden,
+Locke, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Gray, Franklin, Goldsmith,
+Sterne, Smollett, Sheridan, White, Wordsworth, Irving, Austen, Scott,
+Lamb, Cooper, Carlyle, Emerson, Brontë, Lowell, Tennyson, George Eliot,
+Fitzgerald.
+
+The broad and various nationality of English literature is a condition
+precedent to greatness, and underlies its mighty fortune. Its chief
+glory is its continuity, by which it exceeds the moderns, and must, with
+ages, surpass antiquity. Literary genius has been so unfailing in the
+English race that men of this blood live in the error that literature,
+like light and air, is a common element in the life of populations.
+Literature is really the work of selected nations, and with them is not
+a constant product. Many nations have no literature, and in fertile
+nations there are barren centuries. The splendid perpetuity of Greek
+literature, which covered two thousand years, was yet broken by lean
+ages, by periods of desert dearth. In the English, beginning from
+Chaucer (as is just, since he is our Homer, whatever ages went before
+Troy or Canterbury), there have been reigns without a poet; and Greek
+example might prepare the mind for Alexandrian and Byzantine periods in
+the future, were it not for the grand combinations of world-colonies and
+world-contacts which open new perspectives of time for which the mind,
+as part of its faith in life, requires destinies as large. The gaps,
+however, were greatest at the beginning, and grow less. One soil, one
+government, one evenly unfolded civilization--long life in the settled
+and peaceful land--contribute to this continuity of literature in the
+English; but its explanation lies in the integrity of English nurture,
+and this is essentially the same in all persons of English blood. Homer
+was not more truly the school of Greece than the Bible has been the
+school of the English. It has overcome all external change in form, rule
+and institution, fused conventicle and cathedral, and in dissolving
+separate and narrow bonds of union has proved the greatest bond of all,
+and become like a tie of blood. English piety is of one stock, and
+through every book of holy living where its treasures are laid up, there
+blows the breath of one Spirit. Herbert and Bunyan are peers of a faith
+undivided in the hearts of their countrymen. It does not change, but is
+the same yesterday, to-day and forever. On the secular side, also,
+English nurture has been of the like simple strain. The instinct of
+adventure, English derring-do, has never failed. Holinshed and Hakluyt
+were its chroniclers of old; and from the Morte d'Arthur to Sidney, from
+the Red-Cross Knight to Ivanhoe, from Shakespeare's Henry to Tennyson's
+Grenville, genius has not ceased to stream upon it, a broad river of
+light. The Word of God fed English piety; English daring was fed upon
+the deeds of men. Hear Shakespeare's Henry: "Plutarch always delights me
+with a fresh novelty. To love him is to love me; for he has been long
+time the instructor of my youth. My good mother, to whom I owe all, and
+who would not wish, she said, to see her son an illustrious dunce, put
+this book into my hands almost when I was a child at the breast. It has
+been like my conscience, and has whispered in my ear many good
+suggestions and maxims for my conduct and the government of my affairs."
+The English Plutarch is written on the earth's face. Its battles have
+named the lands and seas of all the world; but, as was said of English
+piety, from Harold to Cromwell, from the first Conqueror to Wellington,
+from the Black Prince to Gordon, English daring--the strength of the
+yeoman, the breath of the noble--is of one stock. Race lasts; those who
+are born in the eyrie find eagles' food. This has planted iron
+resolution and all-hazarding courage in epic-drama and battle-ode, and,
+as in the old riddle, feeds on what it fed. English literature is brave,
+martial, and brings forth men-children. It has the clarion strength of
+empire; like Taillefer at Hastings, Drayton and Tennyson still lead the
+charge at Agincourt and Balaclava. As Shakespeare's Henry was nourished,
+so was the English spirit in all ages bred. This integrity of English
+nurture, seen in these two great modes of life turned toward God in the
+soul and toward the world in action, is as plainly to be discerned in
+details as in these generalities; and to state only one other broad
+aspect of the facts governing the continuity of literary genius in the
+English, but one that goes to the foundations, the condition that both
+vivifies and controls that genius in law, metaphysics, science, in all
+political writing, whether history, theory, or discussion, as well as in
+the creative and artistic modes of its development, is freedom. The
+freedom of England, which is the parent of its greatness in all ways, is
+as old in the race as fear of God and love of peril; and, through its
+manifold and primary operation in English nurture, is the true continuer
+of its literature.
+
+A second grand trait of English literature that is writ large on these
+title-pages, is its enormous assimilative power. So great is this that
+he who would know English must be a scholar in all literatures, and that
+with no shallow learning. The old figure of the torch handed down from
+nation to nation, as the type of man's higher life, gives up its full
+meaning only to the student, and to him it may come to seem that the
+torch is all and the hand that bears it dust and ashes; often he finds
+in its light only the color of his own studies, and names it Greek,
+Semitic, Hindu, and looks on English, French and Latin as mere carriers
+of the flame. In so old a symbol there must be profound truth, and it
+conveys the sense of antiquity in life, of the deathlessness of
+civilization, and something also of its superhuman origin--the divine
+gift of fire transmitted from above; but civilization is more than an
+inheritance, it is a power; and truth is always more than it was; and
+wherever the torch is lit, its light is the burning of a living race of
+men. The dependence of the present on the past, of a younger on an older
+people, of one nation on another, is often misinterpreted and misleads;
+life cannot be given, but only knowledge, example, direction--influence,
+but not essence; and the impact of one literature upon another, or of an
+old historic culture upon a new and ungrown people, is more external
+than is commonly represented. The genius of a nation born to greatness
+is irresistible, it remains itself, it does not become another. The
+Greeks conquered Rome, men say, through the mind; and Rome conquered the
+barbarians through the mind; but in Gibbon who finds Greece? and the
+mind of Europe does not bear the ruling stamp of either Byzantine or
+Italian Rome. In the narrowly temporal and personal view, even under the
+overwhelming might of Greece, Virgil remained, what Tennyson calls him,
+"Roman Virgil"; and in the other capital instance of apparently
+all-conquering literary power, under the truth that went forth from
+Judea into all lands, Dante remained Italian and Milton English. Yet in
+these three poets, whose names are synonyms of their countries, the
+assimilated element is so great that their minds might be said to have
+been educated abroad.
+
+What is true of Milton is true of the young English mind, from Chaucer
+and earlier. In the beginning English literature was a part of European
+literature, and held a position in it analogous to that which the
+literature of America occupies in all English speech; it was not so much
+colonial as a part of the same world. The first works were European
+books written on English soil; Chaucer, Gower and Malory used the matter
+of Europe, but they retained the tang of English, as Emerson keeps the
+tang of America. The name applied to Gower, "the moral Gower," speaks
+him English; and Arthur, "the flower of kings," remains forever Arthur
+of Britain; and the Canterbury pilgrimage, whatever the source of the
+world-wandering tales, gives the first crowded scene of English life. In
+Langland, whose form was mediæval, lay as in the seed the religious and
+social history of a protestant, democratic, and labor-honoring nation.
+In the next age, with the intellectual sovereignty of humanism, Surrey,
+Sackville, Lyly, Sidney and Spenser put all the new realms of letters
+under tribute, and made capture with a royal hand of whatever they would
+have for their own of the world's finer wealth; the dramatists gathered
+again the tales of all nations; and, period following period, Italy,
+Spain and France in turn, and the Hebrew, Greek and Latin unceasingly,
+brought their treasures, light or precious, to each generation of
+authors, until the last great burst of the age now closing, itself
+indebted most universally to all the past and all the world. Yet each
+new wave that washed empire to the land retreated, leaving the genius of
+English unimpaired and richer only in its own strength. Notwithstanding
+the _concettisti_, the heroic drama, the Celtic mist, which passed like
+shadows from the kingdom, the instinct of the authors held to the
+massive sense of Latin and the pure form of Greek and Italian, and
+constituted these the enduring humane culture of English letters and
+their academic tradition. The permanence of this tradition in literary
+education has been of vast importance, and is to the literary class, in
+so far as they are separate by training, what the integrity of English
+nurture at large has been to the nation. The poets, especially, have
+been learned in this culture; and, so far from being self-sprung from
+the soil, were moulded into power by every finer touch of time. Chaucer,
+Spenser, Milton, Gray, Shelley, Tennyson are the capital names that
+illustrate the toil of the scholar, and approve the mastery of that
+classical culture which has ever been the most fruitful in the choicest
+minds. As on the broad scale English literature is distinguished by its
+general assimilative power, being hospitable to all knowledge, it is
+most deeply and intimately, because continuously, indebted to humane
+studies, in the strictest sense, and has derived from them not, as in
+many other cases, transitory matter and the fashion of an hour, but the
+form and discipline of art itself. In assimilating this to English
+nature, literary genius incurred its greatest obligation, and in thereby
+discovering artistic freedom found its greatest good. This academic
+tradition has created English culture, which is perhaps best described
+as an instinctive standard of judgment, and is the necessary complement
+to that openness of mind that has characterized English literature from
+the first. Nor is this last word a paradox, but the simple truth, as is
+plain from the assimilative power here dwelt upon. The English genius is
+always itself; no element of greatness could inhere in it otherwise;
+but, in literature, it has had the most open mind of any nation.
+
+A third trait of high distinction in English literature, of which this
+list is a reminder, and one not unconnected with its continuity and
+receptivity, is its copiousness. This is not a matter of mere number,
+of voluminousness; there is an abundance of kinds. In the literature
+of knowledge, what branch is unfruitful, and in the literature of
+power, what fountainhead is unstruck by the rod? Only the Italian
+genius in its prime shows such supreme equality in diversity. How many
+human interests are exemplified, and how many amply illustrated,
+exhibiting in a true sense and not by hyperbole myriad-minded man! In
+the English genius there seems something correspondent to this
+marvellous efficacy of faculty and expression; it has largeness of
+power. The trait most commonly thought of in connection with Aristotle
+as an individual--"master of those who know"--and in connection with
+mediæval schoolmen as a class, is not less characteristic of the
+English, though it appears less. The voracity of Chaucer for all
+literary knowledge, which makes him encyclopædic of a period, is matched
+at the end of these centuries by Newman, whose capaciousness of
+intellect was inclusive of all he cared to know. Bacon, in saying, "I
+take all knowledge to be my province," did not so much make a personal
+boast as utter a national motto. The great example is, of course,
+Shakespeare, on whose universality later genius has exhausted metaphor;
+but for everything that he knew in little, English can show a large
+literature, and exceeds his comprehensiveness. The fact is best
+illustrated by adverting to what this list spares. English is rich in
+translations, and in this sort of exchange the balance of trade is
+always in favor of the importer. Homer alone is included here,--to
+except the Bible, which has been so inbred in England as to have become
+an English book to an eye that clings to the truth through all
+appearances; but how rich in great national books is a literature that
+can omit so noble a work, though translated, and one so historic in
+English, as North's Plutarch! In the literature of knowledge, Greek
+could hardly have passed over Euclid; but Newton's Principia is here not
+required. Sir Thomas More is one of the noblest English names, and his
+Utopia is a memorable book; but it drops from the list. Nor is it names
+and books only that disappear; but, as these last instances suggest,
+kinds of literature go out with them. Platonism falls into silence with
+the pure tones of Vaughan, in whom light seems almost audible; and the
+mystic Italian fervor of the passional spirit fades with Crashaw. The
+books of politeness, though descended from Castiglione, depart with
+Chesterfield, perhaps from some pettiness that had turned courtesy into
+etiquette; and parody retires with Buckingham. Latin literature was
+almost rewritten in English during the eighteenth century; but the
+traces of it here are few. Of inadequate representation, how slight is
+burlesque in Butler, and the presence of Chevy Chase hardly compensates
+for the absence of the war-ballad in Drayton and Campbell. So it is with
+a hundred instances. In another way of illustration, it is to be borne
+in mind that each author appears by only one title; and while it may be
+true that commonly each finer spirit stores up his immortality in some
+one book that is a more perfect vessel of time, yet fecundity is rightly
+reckoned as a sign of greatness and measure of it in the most, and the
+production of many books makes a name bulk larger. Mass counts, when in
+addition to quality; and the greatest have been plentiful writers. No
+praise can make Gray seem more than a remnant of genius, and no
+qualification of the verdict can deprive Dryden and Jonson of largeness.
+It belongs to genius to tire not in creation, thereby imitating the
+excess of nature flowing from unhusbanded sources. Yet among these
+hundred books, as in scientific classification, one example must stand
+for all, except when some folio, like an ark, comes to the rescue of a
+Beaumont and Fletcher. This is cutting the diamond with itself. But
+within these limits, narrowing circle within circle, what a universe of
+man remains! Culture after culture, epoch by epoch, are laid bare as in
+geologic strata,--mediæval tale and history, humanistic form, the
+Shakespearian age, Puritan, Cavalier, man scientific, reforming, reborn
+into a new natural, political, artistic world, man modern; and in every
+layer of imagination and learning lies, whole and entire, a buried
+English age. It is by virtue of its copiousness that English literature
+is so representative, both of man's individual spirit in its restless
+forms of apprehension and embodiment, and of its historic formulation in
+English progress as national power.
+
+The realization of this long-lived, far-gathering, abounding English
+literature, in these external phases, leaves untouched its original
+force. Whence is its germinating power,--what is this genius of the
+English? It is the same in literature as in all its other manifold
+manifestations, for man is forever unitary and of one piece. Curiosity,
+which is the distinction of progressive peoples, is perhaps its initial
+and moving source. The trait which has sent the English broadcast over
+the world and mingled their history with the annals of all nations is
+the same that has so blended their literature with the history of all
+tongues. The acquisitive power which has created the empire of the
+English, with dominion on dominion, is parallel with the faculty that
+assimilates past literatures with the body of their literary speech. But
+curiosity is only half the word. It is singular that the first quality
+which occurs to the mind in connection with the English is, almost
+universally and often exclusively, their practicality. They are really
+the most romantic of all nations; romanticism is the other half of their
+genius, and supplements that positive element of knowledge-hunting or
+truth-seeking which is indicated by their endless curiosity. Possibly
+the Elizabethan age is generally thought of as a romantic period, as if
+it were exceptional; and the romantic vigor of the late Georgian period,
+though everywhere acknowledged, is primarily regarded as more strictly a
+literary and not a national characteristic in its time; but, like all
+interesting history, English history was continuously romantic. The days
+of the crusaders, the Wars of the Roses and the French wars were of the
+same strain in action and character, in adventurous travel, in personal
+fate, in contacts, as were the times of Shakespeare's world or of the
+world of Waterloo. What a reinforcement of character in the English has
+India been, how restorative of greatness in the blood! It must be that
+romanticism should characterize a great race, and, when appealing to a
+positive genius, the greatest race; for in it are all the invitations of
+destiny. Futurity broods and brings forth in its nest. Romanticism is
+the lift of life in a people that does not merely continue, but grows,
+spreads and overcomes. The sphere of the word is not to be too narrowly
+confined, as only a bookish phrase of polite letters.
+
+In the world of knowledge the pursuit of truth is romantic. The
+scientific inquirer lives in a realm of strangeness and in the presence
+of the unknown, in a place so haunted with profound feeling, so electric
+with the emotions that feed great minds, that whether awe of the
+unsolved or of the solved be the stronger sentiment he cannot tell; and
+the appeal made to him--to the explorer in every bodily peril, to the
+experimenter in the den of untamed forces, to the thinker in his
+solitude--is often a romantic appeal. The moments of great discoveries
+are romantic moments, as is seen in Keats's sonnet, lifting Cortez and
+the star-gazer on equal heights with the reader of the Iliad. The epic
+of science is a Columbiad without end. Nor is this less true of those
+branches of knowledge esteemed most dry and prosaic. Locke, Adam Smith,
+Darwin were all similarly placed with Pythagoras, Aristotle and
+Copernicus; the mind, society and nature, severally, were their
+Americas. Even in this age of the mechanical application of forces,
+which by virtue of the large part of these inventions in daily and
+world-wide life seems superficially, and is called, a materialistic age,
+romanticism is paramount and will finally be seen so. Are not these
+things in our time what Drake and Spanish gold and Virginia, what Clive
+and the Indies, were to other centuries? It is true that the element of
+commercial gain blends with other phases of our inventions, and seems a
+debasement, an avarice; but so it was in all ages. Nor are the
+applications of scientific discovery for the material ends of wealth
+other or relatively greater now than the applications of geographical
+discovery, for example, to the same ends were in Elizabeth's reign and
+later. In the first ages commercial gain was in league with the waves
+from which rose the Odyssey,--a part of that early trading, coasting
+world, as it was always a part of the artistic world of Athens. Gain in
+any of its material forms, whether wealth, power or rank, does not
+debase the knowledge, the courage of heart, the skill of hand and brain,
+from which it flows, for it is their natural and proper fruit; nor does
+it by itself materialize either the man or the nation, else civilization
+were doomed from the start, and the pursuit of truth would end in
+humiliation and ignominy. It is rather the attitude of mind toward this
+new world of knowledge and this spectacle of man now imperializing
+through nature's forces, as formerly through discovery of the earth's
+lands and seas, that makes the character of our age. Romanticism, being
+the enveloping mood in whose atmosphere the spirit of man beholds life,
+and, as it were, the light on things, changes its aspect in the process
+of the ages with the emergence of each new world of man's era; and as it
+once inhered in English loyalty and the piety of Christ's sepulchre, and
+in English voyaging over-seas and colonizing of the lands, it now
+inheres in the conquest of natural force for the arts of peace. The
+present age exceeds its predecessors in marvel in proportion as the
+victories of the intellect are in a world of finer secrecy than any
+horizon veils, and build an empire of greater breadth and endurance than
+any monarch or sovereign people or domineering race selfishly achieves;
+its victories are in the unseen of force and thought, and it brings
+among men the undecaying empire of knowledge, as inexpugnable as the
+mind in man and as inappropriable as light and air. Here, as elsewhere,
+it is the sensual eye that sees the sensual thing, but the spiritual eye
+spiritually discerns. It is romance that adds this "precious seeing" to
+the eye. Openness to the call, capability of the passion, and character,
+so sensitized and moulded in individuals and made hereditary in a
+civilization and a race and idealized in conscience, constitute the
+motor-genius of a nation, which is its finding faculty; and the
+appreciation of results and putting them to the use of men make its
+conserving and positive power. These two, indistinguishably married and
+blended, are the English genius. A positive genius following a romantic
+lead, a romantic genius yielding a positive good, equally describe it
+from opposed points of view; yet in the finer spirits and in the long
+age the romantic temperament is felt to be the fertilizing element, to
+be character as opposed to performance. Greatness lies always in the
+unaccomplished deed, as in the lonely anecdote of Newton: "I do not know
+what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only
+like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then
+finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the
+great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." So Tennyson with
+his "wages of going on," and Sir John Franklin and Gordon in their
+lives. This spiritual breath of the nation in all its activities through
+centuries is the breath of its literature, there embodied in its finer
+being and applied to the highest uses for the civilization and culture
+of the nation by truth and art. In English literary history, and in its
+men of genius taken individually, the positive or the romantic may
+predominate, each in its own moment; but the conspectus of the whole
+assigns to each its true levels. Romanticism condensed in character,
+which is the creation of the highest poetic genius, the rarest work of
+man, has its illustrative example in Shakespeare, the first of all
+writers; he followed it through all its modes, and perhaps its simplest
+types are Henry IV for action, Romeo for passion, and Hamlet, which is
+the romance of thought. Before Shakespeare, Spenser closed the earliest
+age, which had been shaped by a diffused romantic tradition, inherited
+from mediævalism, though in its later career masked under Renaissance
+forms; and since Shakespeare, a similar diffused romantic prescience, in
+the region of the common life and of revolutionary causes most
+significantly, brought in our age that has now passed its first flower,
+but has yet long to run. These are the three great ages of English
+poetry. In the interval between the second and the third, the
+magnificently accomplished school of the eighteenth century gave to
+English an age of cultivated repose, in which Pope, its best example,
+lived on the incomes of the past, and, together with the younger and the
+elder men he knew, exhibited in literature that conserving and positive
+power which is the economy of national genius; but even in that great
+century, wherever the future woke, there was a budding romanticism, in
+Collins, Gray, Walpole, Thomson, Cowper, Blake. Such was the history of
+English poetry, and the same general statement will be found applicable
+to English prose, though in a lower tone, due to the nature of prose.
+Taken in the large, important as the positive element in it is, the
+English literary genius is, like the race, temperamentally romantic, to
+the nerve and bone.
+
+This view becomes increasingly apparent on examination of the service of
+this literature to civilization and the individual soul of man, which is
+the great function of literature, and of its place in the world of art.
+
+"How shall the world be served?" was Chaucer's question; and it has
+never been absent from any great mind of the English stock. The
+literature of a nation, however, including, as here, books of knowledge,
+is so nearly synonymous with the mind in all its operations in the
+national life, as to be coextensive with civilization, and hardly
+separable from it. Civilization is cast in the mould of thought, and
+retains the brute necessity of nature only as mass, but not as surface;
+it is the flowering of human forces in the formal aspect of life, and of
+these literature is one mode, reflecting in its many phases all the rest
+in their manifestations, and inwardly feeding them in their vital
+principle. The universality of its touch on life is indicated by the
+fact that it has made the English a lettered people, the alphabet as
+common as numbers, and the ability to read almost as wide-spread in the
+race as the ability to count. Its service, therefore, cannot be
+summarized any more than the dictionary of its words. It is possible to
+bring within the compass of a paragraph only hints and guide-marks of
+its work; and naturally these would be gathered from its most
+comprehensive influences in the higher spheres of intellect and morals,
+in the world of ideas, and in the person of those writers who were
+either the founders or restorers of knowledge. Such a cardinal service
+was the Baconian method, to take a single great instance, which may
+almost be said to have reversed the logical habit of the mind of Europe,
+and to have summoned nature to a new bar. It is enough to name this. Of
+books powerful in intellectual results, Locke's Essay is, perhaps,
+thought of as metaphysical and remote, yet it was of immeasurable
+influence at home and abroad, so subtly penetrating as to resemble in
+scale and intimacy the silent forces of nature. It was great as a
+representative of the spirit of rationalism, which it supported and
+spread with incalculable results on the temper of educated Europe; and
+great also as a product and embodiment of that cold, intellectual habit,
+distinctive of a certain kind of English mind, and usually regarded as
+radical in the race. It was great by the variety as well as the range of
+its influence, and was felt in all regions of abstract thought and those
+practical arts, education, government and the like, then most affected
+by such thought; it permanently modified the cast of men's minds. In
+opposition to it new philosophical movements found their mainspring. A
+similar honor belongs to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in another
+century. It is customary to eulogize the pioneer, and to credit the
+first openers of Californias with the wealth of all the mines worked by
+later comers; and, in this sense, the words of Buckle, that have been
+placed opposite the title-page, are, perhaps, to be taken: "Adam Smith
+contributed more, by the publication of this single work, towards the
+happiness of men than has been effected by the united abilities of all
+the statesmen and legislators of whom history has preserved an authentic
+account." But the excess of the statement is a proof of the largeness of
+the truth it contains, and like-minded praise is not from Buckle alone,
+but may be found in half a score of thoughtful and temperate authors. In
+the last age, Darwin, by his Origin of Species, most arrested the
+attention of the scientific mind, and stimulated the highly educated
+world with surprise. He was classed with Copernicus, as having brought
+man's pretension to be the first of created things, and their lord from
+the beginning, under the destroying criticism of scientific time and its
+order, in the same way that Copernicus brought the pretension of the
+earth to be the centre of the universe under a like criticism of
+scientific space and its order; and in these proud statements there is
+some measure of truth. The ideas of Darwin compel a readjustment of
+man's thoughts with regard to his temporal and natural relation to the
+universe in which he finds himself; and the vast generalities of all
+evolutionary thought received from Darwin immense stimulus, its method
+greater scope, and its results a firmer hold on the general mind, with
+an influence still unfathomable upon man's highest beliefs with regard
+to his origin and destiny. There are epochs in the intellectual history
+of the race as marked as those of the globe; and such works as these, in
+the literature of knowledge, show the times of the opening of the seals.
+
+In addition to the service so done in the advancement of civilization by
+the discovery of new truth, as great benefaction is accomplished by the
+continual agitation and exercise of men's minds in the ideas that are
+not new but the ever-living inheritance from the past, whose permanence
+through all epochs shows their deep grounding in the race they nourish.
+In English such ideas are, especially, in the view of the whole world,
+ideas of civil and religious liberty in the widest sense and
+particularly as worked out in legal and political history. The common
+law of England in Blackstone is a mighty legacy. On the large public
+scale, and as involved in the constitutional making of a great nation,
+the Federalist is a document invaluable as setting forth essentials of
+free government under a particular application; and for comment on
+social liberty, Burke, on the conservative, and Paine, on the radical
+side, exhibit the scope, the weight and fire of English thought. Of
+still greater significance, for the mass and variety of teaching, is
+that commentary on man's freedom which is contained in the operation of
+liberty and its increase as presented in the long story of England's
+greatness recorded in the works of her historians from Holinshed to
+Macaulay, with what the last prolific generation has added. They are
+exceeded in the dignity of their labors by Gibbon, whose work on Rome,
+which Mommsen called the greatest of all histories and is often likened
+to a mighty bridge spanning the gulf between the ancient and the modern
+world, was a contribution to European learning; but the historians of
+English liberty have more profitably served mankind. At yet another
+remove, the ideas of liberty--and the mind acquainted with English books
+is dazzled by the vast comprehensiveness of such a phrase--are again
+poured through the nation's life-blood by all her poets, and well-nigh
+all her writers in prose, in one or another mode of the Promethean fire.
+These ideas are never silent, never quiescent; they work in the
+substance, they shape the form and feature, of English thought; they are
+the necessary element of its being; they constitute the race of freemen,
+and are known in every language as English ideas. They give sublimity to
+the figure of Milton; they are the feeding flame of Shelley's mind; they
+alone lift Tennyson to an eagle-flight of song. In the unceasing
+celebration of ideal liberty, and its practical life in English
+character and events, the literature of England has, perhaps, done a
+greater service than in the positive advancement of knowledge, for it is
+more fundamental in the national life. Touching the subject almost at
+random, such are a few of the points of contact between English books
+and the civilization of men.
+
+It is still more difficult to state briefly the action of literature on
+the individual for what is more distinctly his private gain, in the
+enlargement of his life, the direction of his thoughts, and bringing him
+into harmony with the world. As, in regard to civilization, the emphasis
+lay rather on the literature of knowledge, here it lies on the
+literature of power,--on imaginative and reflective works. Its initial
+office is educative; it feeds the imagination and the powers of
+sympathy, and trains not only the affections but all feeling; and in
+these fields it is the only instrument of education outside of real
+experience. It is this that gives it such primacy as to make
+acquaintance with humane letters almost synonymous with culture. No
+actual world is large enough for a man to live in; at the lowest, there
+is some tradition of the past, some expectation of the future; and,
+though training in the senses is an important part of early life, yet
+the greater part of education consists in putting the young in
+possession of an unseen world. The biograph is a marvellous toy of the
+time, but literature in its lower forms of information, of history,
+travel and description, has been a biograph for the mind's eye from the
+beginning; and in its higher forms of art it performs a greater service
+by bringing into mental vision what it is above the power of nature to
+produce. To expand the mind to the compass of space and time, and to
+people these with the thoughts of mankind, to revive the past and
+penetrate the reality of the present, is the joint work of all
+literature; and as a preparation for individual life, in unfolding the
+faculties and the feelings, humane letters achieve their most essential
+task. Literature furnishes the gymnasia for all youth, in that part of
+their nature in which the highest power of humanity lies. But this is
+only, as was said, its initial office. Throughout life it acts in the
+same way on old and young alike. The dependence of all men on thought,
+and of thought on speech, is a profound matter, though as little
+considered as gravitation that keeps the world entire; and the speech on
+which such a strain of life lies is the speech of books. How has
+Longfellow consoled middle life in its human trials, how has Carlyle
+roused manhood, and Emerson illumined life for his readers at every
+stage! Scott is a benefactor of millions by virtue of the entertainment
+he has given to English homes and the lonely hours of his fellow-men,
+now for three generations, to an extent hardly measurable in thought;
+and so in hardly a less degree is Dickens, and, though diminishing in
+inclusive power, are Thackeray, Austen, Brontë, Cooper, Hawthorne,
+George Eliot, to name only novelists. Each century has had its own
+story-telling from Chaucer down, though masked in the Elizabethan period
+as drama, and in each much hearty and refined pleasure has been afforded
+by the spectacle of life in books; but in the last age the benefit so
+conferred is to be reckoned among the greater blessings of civilization.
+It is singular that humor, so prime and constant a factor in English,
+should have so few books altogether its own, and these not of the
+greater class; but the spirit which yields burlesque in Butler and
+Irving, and comedy in Massinger, Congreve and Sheridan, pervades the
+body of English literature and characterizes it among national
+literatures. The highest mind is incomplete without humor, for a perfect
+idealism includes laughter at the real; and it is natural, for, the
+principle of humor being incongruity to the intellect, it is properly
+most keen in those in whom the idea of order, which is the mother-idea
+of the intellect, is most omnipresent and controlling; but as humor is
+thus auxiliary in character, it is found to be subordinate also in
+English literature as a whole. The constancy of its presence, however,
+is a sign of the general health of the English genius, which has turned
+to morbidity far less than that of other nations ancient or modern. It
+is a cognate fact, here, that great books are never frivolous; they
+leave the reader wiser and better, as well through laughter as through
+tears, or they sustain imaginative and sympathetic power already
+acquired. They open the world of humanity to the heart, and they open
+the heart to itself. In another region, not primarily of entertainment,
+the value of literature lies in its function to inspire. In individual
+life, each finer spirit of the past touches with an electric force those
+of his own kindred as they are born into the world of letters, and often
+for life. The later poets have most personal power in this way. Burns,
+Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley have been the inspiration of lives, like
+Carlyle and Emerson in prose. The most intense example of national
+inspiration in a book is Uncle Tom's Cabin; but in quieter ways Scotland
+feels the pulse of Burns, and England the many-mingled throbbing of the
+poets in her blood.
+
+On the large scale, in the impact of literature on the individual soul
+and through that on the national belief, aspiration and resolve, the
+great sphere of influence lies necessarily in the religious life,
+because that is universal and constant from birth to death and spreads
+among the secret springs and sources of man's essential nature. It is a
+commonplace, it has sometimes been made a reproach, that English
+literature is predominantly moral and religious, and the fact is plainly
+so. The strain that began with Piers Plowman flourished more mightily in
+the Pilgrim's Progress. The psalm-note that was a tone of character in
+Surrey, Wyatt and Sidney gave perfect song in Milton, both poet and man.
+From Butler to Newman the intellect, applied to religion, did not fail
+in strenuous power. Taylor's Holy Living is a saint's book. If religious
+poets, of one pure strain of Sabbath melody, have been rare, yet
+Herbert, Vaughan, Cowper, Keble, Whittier are to the memory Christian
+names, with the humility and breathing peace of sacred song. The portion
+of English literature expressly religious is enlarged by the works of
+authors, both in prose and verse, in which religion was an occasional
+theme and often greatly dealt with; and the religious and moral
+influence of the body of literature as a whole on the English race is
+immensely increased by those writers into whom the Christian spirit
+entered as a master-light of reason and imagination, such as Spenser in
+the Faërie Queene and Wordsworth in his works generally, or Gray in the
+solemn thought of the Elegy. To particularize is an endless task; for
+the sense of duty toward man and God is of the bone and flesh of English
+books in every age, being planted in the English nature. This vast mass
+of experience and counsel, of praise and prayer, of insight and leading,
+variously responding to every phase of the religious consciousness of
+the historic people, has been, like the general harvest, the daily food
+of the nation in its spiritual life. If Shakespeare is the greatest of
+our writers, the English Bible is the greatest of our books; and the
+whole matter is summarized in saying that the Bible, together with the
+Book of Common Prayer, is the most widely distributed, the most
+universally influential, the most generally valued and best-read book of
+the English people, and this has been true since the diffusion of
+printing. It may seem only the felicity of time that the English
+language best adorns its best book; but it is by a higher blessing that
+English character centres in this Book, that English thinkers see by it,
+that English poets feel by it, that the English people live by it; for
+it has passed into the blood of all English veins.
+
+It is natural to inquire, after dwelling so much on the practical power
+of English literature in society and life, what is its value in the
+world of art, in that sphere where questions of perfection in the form,
+of permanence in the matter, and the like, arise. If the standards of an
+academic classicism be applied, English literature will fall below both
+Latin and Greek, and the Italian and French, and take a lower place with
+German and Spanish, to which it is most akin. But such standards are
+pseudo-classical at best, and under modern criticism find less ground in
+the ancients. The genius of the English is romantic, and originated
+romantic forms proper to itself, and by these it should be judged. The
+time is, perhaps, not wholly gone by when the formlessness of
+Shakespeare may be found spoken of as a matter of course, as the
+formlessness of Shelley is still generally alleged; but if neither of
+these has form in the pseudo-classic, the Italian and French, sense of
+convention, decorum and limit, they were creators of that romantic form
+in which English, together with Spanish, marks the furthest original
+modern advance. The subject is too large, and too much a matter of
+detail, for this place; but it is the less necessary to expand it, for
+it is as superfluous to establish the right of Shakespeare in the realm
+of the most perfect art as to examine the title-deeds of Alexander's
+conquests. He condensed romanticism in character, as was said above;
+and in the power with which he did this, in the wisdom, beauty and
+splendor of his achievement, excelled all others, both for substance and
+art. The instinct of fame may be safely followed in assigning a like
+primacy to Milton. The moment which Milton occupied, in the climax of a
+literary movement, is, perhaps, not commonly observed with accuracy. The
+drama developed out of allegorical and abstract, and through historical,
+into entirely human and ideal forms; and in Shakespeare this process is
+completed. The same movement, on the religious as opposed to the secular
+line, took place more slowly. Spenser, like Sackville, works by
+impersonation of moral qualities, viewed abstractly; the Fletchers, who
+carried on his tradition, employ the same method, which gives a remote
+and often fantastic character to their work; nor was moral and religious
+poetic narrative truly humanized, and given ideal power in character and
+event, until Milton carried it to its proper artistic culmination in
+Paradise Lost. Milton stands to the evolution of this branch of poetic
+literature, springing from the miracle-plays, precisely as Shakespeare
+does to the branch of ideal drama; and thus, although he fell outside of
+the great age, and was sixty years later than Shakespeare in completing
+the work, the singularity of his literary greatness, his loneliness as a
+lofty genius in his time, becomes somewhat less inexplicable. The
+Paradise Lost occupies this moment of climax, to repeat the phrase, in
+literary history, and, like nearly all works in such circumstances, it
+has a greatness all its own. But, beyond that, it lies in a region of
+art where no other English work companions it, as an epic of the
+romantic spirit such as Italy most boasts of, but superior in breadth,
+in ethical power, in human interest, to Ariosto or Tasso, and comparing
+with them as Pindar with the Alexandrians; it realized Hell and Eden,
+and the world of heavenly war and the temptation, to the vision of men,
+with tremendous imaginative power, stamping them into the race-mind as
+permanent imagery; and the literary kinship which the workmanship bears
+to what is most excellent and shining in the great works of Greece, Rome
+and Italy, as well as to Hebraic grandeur, helps to place the poem in
+that remoter air which is an association of the mind with all art. No
+other English poem has a similar brilliancy, aloofness and perfection,
+as of something existing in another element, except the Adonais. In it
+personal lyricism achieved the most impersonal of elegies, and mingled
+the fairest dreams of changeful imaginative grief with the soul's
+intellectual passion for immortality full-voiced. It is detached from
+time and place; the hunger of the soul for eternity, which is its
+substance, human nature can never lay off; its literary kinship is with
+what is most lovely in the idyllic melody of the antique; and, owing to
+its small scale and the simple unity of its mood, it gives forth the
+perpetual charm of literary form in great purity. These two poems stand
+alone with Shakespeare's plays, and are for epic and lyric what his work
+is for drama, the height of English performance in the cultivation of
+romance. Other poets must be judged to have attained excellence in
+romantic art in proportion as they reveal the qualities of Shakespeare,
+Milton and Shelley; for these three are the masters of romantic form,
+which, being the spirit of life proceeding from within outward, is the
+vital structure of English poetic genius. This internal power is also a
+principle of classic art in its antique examples; but academic criticism
+developed from them a hardened formalism to which romantic art is
+related as the spirit of life to the death-mask of the past. Such pallor
+has from time to time crossed the features of English letters in a man
+or an age, and has brought a marble dignity, as to Landor, or the shadow
+of an Augustan elegance, as in the era of Pope; but it has faded and
+passed away under the flush of new life. Even in prose, in which
+so-called classic qualities are still sought by academic taste, the
+genius of English has shown a native obstinacy. The novel is so Protean
+in form as to seem amorphous, but essentially repeats the drama, and
+submits in its masters to Shakespearian parallelism; in substance and
+manner it has been overwhelmingly of a romantic cast; and in the other
+forms of prose, style, though of all varieties, has, perhaps, proved
+most preservative when highly colored, individualized, and touched with
+imaginative greatness, as in Browne, Taylor, Milton, Bunyan, Burke,
+Carlyle, Macaulay; but the inferiority of their matter, it should be
+observed, affects the endurance of the eighteenth-century prose
+masters--Steele, Addison, Swift and Johnson, to name the foremost.
+Commonly, it must be allowed, English, both prose and poetry,
+notwithstanding its triumphs, is valued for substance and not for form,
+whether this be due to a natural incapacity, or to a retardation in
+development which may hereafter be overcome, or to the fact that the
+richness of the substance renders the fineness of the form less eminent.
+
+In conclusion, the thought rises of itself, will this continuity,
+assimilative power, and copiousness, this original genius, this
+serviceableness to civilization and the private life, this supreme
+romantic art, be maintained, now that the English and their speech are
+spread through the world, or is the history of the intellectual
+expansion of Athens and Rome, the moral expansion of Jerusalem, to be
+repeated? The saying of Shelley, "The mind in creation is a fading
+coal," seems to be true of nations. Great literatures, or periods in
+them, have usually marked the culmination of national power; and if they
+"look before and after," as Virgil in the Æneid, they gather their
+wisdom, as he too did, by a gaze reverted to the past. The paradox of
+progress, in that the _laudator temporis acti_ is always found among the
+best and noblest of the elders, while yet the whole world of man ever
+moves on to greater knowledge, power and good, continues like the riddle
+of the Sphinx; but time seems unalterably in favor of mankind through
+all dark prophecies. The mystery of genius is unsolved; and the
+Messianic hope that a child may be born unto the people always remains;
+but the greatness of a nation dies only with that genius which is not a
+form of human greatness in individuals, but is shared by all of the
+blood, and constitutes them fellow-countrymen. The genius of the English
+shows no sign of decay; age has followed age, each more gloriously, and
+whether the period that is now closing be really an end or only the
+initial movement of a vaster arc of time, corresponding to the greater
+English destiny, world-wide, world-peopling, world-freeing, the arc of
+the movement of democracy through the next ages,--is immaterial; so long
+as the genius of the people, its piety and daring, its finding faculty
+for truth, its creative shaping in art, be still integral and vital, so
+long as its spiritual passion be fed from those human and divine ideas
+whose abundance is not lessened, and on those heroic tasks which a world
+still half discovered and partially subdued opens through the whole
+range of action and of the intellectual and moral life,--so long as
+these things endure, English speech must still be fruitful in great ages
+of literature, as in the past these have been its fountainheads. But if
+no more were to be written on the page of English, yet what is written
+there, contained and handed down in famous books and made the spiritual
+food of the vast multitude whose children's children shall use and read
+the English tongue through coming centuries under every sky, will
+constitute a moral dominion to which Virgil's line may proudly apply--
+
+ His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono:
+ Imperium sine fine dedi.
+
+
+
+
+ One Hundred Books
+ Famous in English Literature
+
+
+
+
+ Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath
+ Preluded those melodious bursts that fill
+ The spacious times of great Elizabeth
+ With sounds that echo still.
+ TENNYSON
+
+
+
+
+ Whan that Apprill with his shouris sote
+ And the droughte of marche hath pa'd [.y] rote
+ And badid euery veyne in suche licour
+ Of whiche vertu engendrid is the flour
+ Whanne zepherus eke with his sote breth
+ Enspirid hath in euery holte and heth
+ The tendir croppis and the yong sonne
+ Hath in the ram half his cours y conne
+ And smale foulis make melodie
+ That slepyn al nyght with opyn ye
+ So prikith hem nature in her corage
+ Than longyng folk to gon on pilgremage
+ And palmers to seche straunge londis
+ To serue halowis couthe in sondry londis
+ And specially fro euery shiris ende
+ Of yngelond to Cauntirbury thy wende
+ The holy blisful martir for to seke
+ That them hath holpyn when they were seke
+
+ And fil in that seson on a day
+ In Suthwerk atte tabard as I lay
+ Redy to wende on my pilgremage
+ To Cauntirbury with deuout corage
+ That nyght was come in to that hosterye
+ Wel nyne & twenty in a companye
+ Of sondry folk be auenture y falle
+ In feleship as pilgrymys were they alle
+ That toward Cauntirbury wolden ryde
+ The chambris and the stablis were wyde
+ And wel were they esid atte beste
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 7 × 10 inches
+
+
+
+
+ O moral Gower
+ CHAUCER
+
+
+
+
+ This book is intituled confessio amantis / that is to saye in
+ englysshe the confessyon of the louer maad and compyled by Johan
+ Gower squyer borne in walys in the tyme of kyng richard the
+ second which book treteth how he was confessyd to Genyus preest
+ of venus vpon the causes of loue in his fyue wyttes and seuen
+ dedely synnes / as in thys sayd book al alonge appyereth / and
+ by cause there been comprysed therin dyuers hystoryes and fables
+ towchyng euery matere / I haue ordeyned a table here folowyng of
+ al suche hystoryes and fables where and in what book and leef
+ they stande in as here after foloweth
+
+
+ ¶ Fyrst the prologue how johan gower in the xvi yere of kyng
+ rychard the second began to make thys book and dyrected to harry
+ of lancastre thenne erle of derby folio ¶ ii
+
+ Of thestate of the royames temporally the sayd yere folio ¶ iii
+
+ Of thestate of the clergye the tyme of robert gylbonensis namyng
+ hym self clemente thenne antipope folio ¶ iv
+
+ Of the estate of the comyn people folio ¶ v
+
+ How he treteth of the ymage that nabugodonosor sawe in his sleep
+ hauyng an heed of golde / a breste of syluer / a bely of brasse
+ / legges of yron / and feet haffe yron & halfe erthe folio vi
+
+ Of thenterpretacion of the dreme / and how the world was fyrst
+ of golde / & after alwey werse & werse folio vii
+
+ ¶ Thus endeth the prologue
+
+ ¶ Here begynneth the book
+
+ And fyrst the auctor nameth thys book confessio amantis / that
+ is to say the shryfte of the louer / wheron alle thys book shal
+ shewe not onely the loue humayn / but also of alle lyuyng
+ beestys naturally folio ¶ ix
+
+ How cupydo smote Johan Gower with a fyry arowe and wounded hym
+ so that venus commysed to hym genyus hyr preest for to here hys
+ confessyon folio ¶ x
+
+ How Genyus beyng sette / the louer knelyng tofore hym prayeth
+ the sayd confessor to appose hym in his confessyon folio ¶ xi
+
+ The confessyon of the amant of two of the pryncipallist of his
+ fyue wyttes folio ¶ xi
+
+ How atheon for lokyng vpon Deane was turned in to an herte
+ folio ¶ xi
+
+ Of phorceus and hys thre doughters whiche had but one eye / &
+ how phorceus slewe them folio ¶ xii
+
+ How the serpente that bereth the charbuncle stoppeth his one ere
+ wyth hys tayle and that other wyth the erthe whan he is
+ enchaunted folio ¶ xii
+
+ How vlyxes escaped fro the marmaydys by stoppyng of hys eerys
+ folio ¶ xii
+
+ Here foloweth that there ben vii dedely synnes / of whome the
+ fyrste is
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 8.68 × 12.75 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ Flos regum Arthurus
+ JOHN OF EXETER
+
+
+
+
+ After that I had accomplysshed and fynysshed dyuers hystoryes as
+ wel of contemplacyon as of other hystoryal and worldly actes of
+ grete conquerours & prynces / And also certeyn bookes of
+ ensaumples and doctryne / Many noble and dyuers gentylmen of
+ thys royame of Englond camen and demaunded me many and oftymes /
+ wherfore that j haue not do made & enprynte the noble hystorye
+ of the saynt greal / and of the moost renomed crysten kyng /
+ Fyrst and chyef of the thre best crysten and worthy / kyng
+ Arthur / whyche ought moost to be remembred emonge vs englysshe
+ men tofore al other crysten kynges / For it is notoyrly knowen
+ thorugh the vnyuersal world / that there been ix worthy & the
+ best that euer were / That is to wete thre paynyms / thre jewes
+ and thre crysten men / As for the paynyms they were tofore the
+ jncarnacyon of Cryst / whiche were named / the fyrst Hector of
+ Troye / of whome thystorye is comen bothe in balade and in prose
+ / The second Alysaunder the grete / & the thyrd Julyus Cezar
+ Emperour of Rome of whome thystoryes ben wel kno and had / And
+ as for the thre jewes whyche also were tofore thyncarnacyon of
+ our lord of whome the fyrst was Duc Josue whyche brought the
+ chyldren of Israhel in to the londe of byheste / The second
+ Dauyd kyng of Jherusalem / & the thyrd Judas Machabeus of these
+ thre the byble reherceth al theyr noble hystoryes & actes / And
+ sythe the sayd jncarnacyon haue ben thre noble crysten men
+ stalled and admytted thorugh the vnyuersal world in to the
+ nombre of the ix beste & worthy / of whome was fyrst the noble
+ Arthur / whos noble actes j purpose to wryte in thys present
+ book here folowyng / The second was Charlemayn or Charles the
+ grete / of whome thystorye is had in many places bothe in
+ frensshe and englysshe / and the thyrd and last was Godefray of
+ boloyn / of whos actes & lyf j made a book vnto thexcellent
+ prynce and kyng of noble memorye kyng Edward the fourth / the
+ sayd noble jentylmen jnstantly requyred me temprynte thystorye
+ of the sayd noble kyng and conquerour kyng Arthur / and of his
+ knyghtes wyth thystorye of the saynt greal / and of the deth and
+ endyng of the sayd Arthur / Affermyng that j ouzt rather
+ tenprynte his actes and noble feates / than of godefroye of
+ boloyne / or
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 7.87 × 11.25 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ So judiciously contrived that the wisest may exercise at once
+ their knowledge and devotion; its ceremonies few and innocent;
+ its language significant and perspicuous; most of the words and
+ phrases being taken out of the Holy Scriptures and the rest are
+ the expressions of the first and purest ages.
+ COMBER
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ booke of the common praier
+ and administracion of the
+ Sacramentes, and
+ other rites and
+ ceremonies
+ of the
+ Churche: after the
+ vse of the Churche of
+ Englande.
+
+ LONDINI, _in officina Richardi Graftoni,
+ Regij impressoris_.
+
+ _Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum._
+
+ _Anno Domini._ M.D.XLIX.
+ _Mense Martij._
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original 7 × 10.5 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ The author of Piers Ploughman, no doubt, embodied in a poetic
+ dress just what millions felt. His poem as truly expressed the
+ popular sentiment on the subjects it discussed as did the
+ American Declaration of Independence the national thought and
+ feeling on the relations between the Colonies and Great Britain.
+ Its dialect, its tone and its poetic dress alike conspired to
+ secure to the Vision a wide circulation among the commonalty of
+ the realm, and by formulating--to use a favorite word of the
+ day--sentiments almost universally felt, though but dimly
+ apprehended, it brought them into distinct consciousness, and
+ thus prepared the English people for the reception of the seed
+ which the labors of Wycliffe and his converts were already
+ sowing among them.
+ MARSH
+
+
+
+
+ THE VISION
+ of Pierce Plowman, now
+ fyrste imprynted by Roberte
+ Crowley, dwellyng in Ely
+ tentes in Holburne.
+ Anno Domini.
+
+ 1550.
+ Cum priuilegio ad imprimend[=u]
+ solum.
+
+
+
+
+ By far the most important of our historical records, in print,
+ during the time of Queen Elizabeth.
+ DIBDIN
+
+
+
+
+ 1577.
+
+ THE
+ Firste volume of the
+ _Chronicles of England, Scotlande_,
+ and Irelande.
+ CONTEYNING,
+
+ The description and Chronicles of England, from the first
+ inhabiting vnto the conquest
+
+ The description and Chronicles of Scotland, from the first
+ originall of the Scottes nation, till the yeare of our Lorde.
+ 1571.
+
+ The description and Chronicles of Yrelande, likewise from the
+ firste originall of that Nation, vntill the yeare. 1547.
+
+ _Faithfully gathered and set forth, by_
+ Raphaell Holinshed.
+
+ AT LONDON,
+ Imprinted for George Bishop.
+
+
+ God saue the Queene.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 7.75 11.12 inches
+
+
+
+
+ Our historic plays are allowed to have been founded on the
+ heroic narratives in the Mirror for Magistrates; to that plan,
+ and to the boldness of Lord Buckhurst's new scenes, perhaps we
+ owe Shakespeare.
+ WALPOLE
+
+
+
+
+ ¶_A MYRROVR FOR_
+ Magistrates.
+
+ Wherein maye be seen by
+ example of other, with howe greuous
+ plages vices are punished: and
+ howe frayle and vnstable werldly
+ prosperity is founde, even of
+ those whom Fortune seemeth
+ most highly
+ to fauour.
+
+
+ _Fælix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum._
+
+ _Anno._ 1563.
+
+ ¶_Imprinted at London in Fletestrete
+ nere to Saynct Dunstans Churche
+ by Thomas Marshe._
+
+
+
+
+ Two chieftaines who having travailed into Italie, and there
+ tasted the sweete and stately measures and stile of Italian
+ Poesie, as novices newly crept out of the schooles of Dante,
+ Arioste, and Petrarch, they greatly pollished our rude and
+ homely maner of vulgar Poesie, from that it had bene before, and
+ for that cause may justly be sayd the first reformers of our
+ English meetre and stile.
+ PUTTENHAM
+
+
+
+
+ ¶_SONGES AND SONETTES
+ Written by the right honorable
+ Lord Henry Haward late
+ Earle of Surrey, and
+ others._
+
+
+ _Apud Richardum Tottell._
+ 1567.
+
+
+ _Cumpriuilegio._
+
+
+
+
+ It is full of stately speeches, and well-sounding phrases,
+ clyming to the height of Seneca his stile, and as full of
+ notable moralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so
+ obtayne the very end of Poesie.
+ SIDNEY
+
+
+
+
+ ¶The Tragidie of Ferrex
+ and Porrex,
+ set forth without addition or alteration
+ but altogether as the same was shewed
+ on stage before the Queenes Maiestie,
+ about nine yeares past, _vz._ the
+ xviij. day of Ianuarie. 1561.
+ by the gentlemen of the
+ Inner Temple.
+
+
+ =Seen and allowed, &c.=
+
+
+ Imprinted at London by
+ Iohn Daye, dwelling ouer
+ Aldersgate.
+
+
+
+
+ These papers of his lay like dead lawrels in a churchyard; but I
+ have gathered the scattered branches up, and by a charme, gotten
+ from Apollo, made them greene againe and set them up as
+ epitaphes to his memory. A sinne it were to suffer these rare
+ monuments of wit to lye covered in dust and a shame such
+ conceipted comedies should be acted by none but wormes. Oblivion
+ shall not so trample on a sonne of the Muses; and such a sonne
+ as they called their darling. Our nation are in his debt for a
+ new English which he taught them. "Euphues and his England"
+ began first that language: all our ladyes were then his
+ scollers; and that beautie in court, which could not parley
+ Eupheueisme was as little regarded as shee which now there
+ speakes not French.
+ BLOUNT
+
+
+
+
+ EVPHVES.
+ THE ANATOMY
+ _of Wit_.
+
+ Verie pleasant for all
+ _Gentlemen to reade_,
+ and most necessary to
+ remember.
+
+ _Wherein are contayned the_
+ delightes that wit followeth in
+ _his youth, by the pleasantnesse of loue_,
+ and the happinesse he reapeth
+ in age, by the perfectnes
+ of wisedome.
+
+
+ _By_ Iohn Lylie, _Maister of Art_.
+
+ Corrected and augmented.
+
+ _AT LONDON_
+ Printed for Gabriell Cawood,
+ dwelling in Paules Church-yard.
+
+
+
+
+ The noble and vertuous gentleman most worthy of all titles both
+ of learning and chevalrie M. Philip Sidney.
+ SPENSER
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ COVNTESSE
+ OF PEMBROKES
+ ARCADIA,
+
+ WRITTEN BY SIR PHILIPPE
+ SIDNEI.
+
+ LONDON
+ Printed for William Ponsonbie.
+ _Anno Domini_, 1590.
+
+
+
+
+ Our sage and serious poet Spenser (whom I dare be known to think
+ a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas).
+ MILTON
+
+
+
+
+ THE FAERIE
+ QVEENE.
+
+ Disposed into twelue books,
+ _Fashioning_
+ XII. Morall vertues.
+
+
+ VBIQUE FLORET (in printer's mark)
+
+
+ LONDON
+ Printed for William Ponsonbie.
+ 1590.
+
+
+
+
+ Who is there that upon hearing the name of Lord Bacon does not
+ instantly recognize everything of literature the most extensive,
+ everything of discovery the most penetrating, everything of
+ observation of human life the most distinguished and refined?
+ BURKE
+
+
+
+
+ Essaies.
+
+ Religious Meditations.
+
+ Places of perswasion
+ and disswasion.
+
+ Seene and allowed.
+
+ LONDON
+ Printed for Humfrey Hooper
+ and are to bee solde at the
+ blacke Beare in Chauncery
+ lane. 1598.
+
+
+
+
+ They contain the heroic tales of the exploits of the great men
+ in whom the new era was inaugurated; not mythic like the Iliads
+ and the Eddas, but plain, broad narratives of substantial facts,
+ which rival legend in interest and grandeur. What the old epics
+ were to the royally or nobly born, this modern epic is to the
+ common people. We have no longer kings or princes for chief
+ actors to whom the heroism, like the dominion of the world, had
+ in time past been confined. But, as it was in the days of the
+ Apostles, when a few poor fishermen from an obscure lake in
+ Palestine assumed, under the Divine Mission, the spiritual
+ authority over mankind, so, in the days of our own Elizabeth,
+ the seamen from the banks of the Thames and the Avon, the Plym
+ and the Dart, self-taught and self-directed, with no impulse but
+ what was beating in their own royal hearts, went out across the
+ unknown seas, fighting, discovering, colonizing, and graved out
+ the channels, paving them at last with their bones, through
+ which the commerce and enterprise of England has flowed out over
+ all the world.
+ FROUDE
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS, VOIAGES, TRAFFIQVES AND DISCOUERIES
+ of the English Nation, made by Sea or ouer-land, to the
+ remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth,
+ at any time within the compasse of these 1500.
+ yeeres: Deuided into three seuerall Volumes,
+ according to the positions of the
+ Regions, whereonto they were
+ directed.
+
+ This first Volume containing the woorthy Discoueries,
+ &c. of the English toward the North and Northeast by
+ Sea, as of _Lapland_, _Scriksinia_, _Corelia_, the
+ Baie of S. _Nicholas_, the Isles of _Colgoieue_,
+ _Vaigatz_, and _Noua Zembla_, toward the great
+ riuer _Ob_, with the mighty Empire of _Russia_,
+ the _Caspian_ sea, _Georgia_, _Armenia_,
+ _Media_, _Persia_, _Boghar_ in _Bactria_,
+ and diuers kingdoms of _Tartaria_:
+
+ Together with many notable monuments and testimonies
+ of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike
+ and other shipping of this realme of _England_
+ in former ages.
+
+ _Whereunto is annexed also a briefe Commentarie of
+ the true_ state of _Island_, and of the Northren
+ Seas and lands situate that way.
+
+ _And lastly, the memorable defeate of the
+ Spanish huge Armada, Anno_ 1588. and
+ the famous victorie atchieued
+ at the citie of _Cadiz_,
+ 1596. are described.
+
+
+ _By_ RICHARD HACKLVYT _Master of_
+ Artes, and sometime Student of
+ Christ-Church in Oxford.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ Imprinted at London by GEORGE
+ BISHOP, RALPH NEWBERIE
+ and ROBERT BARKER.
+ 1598.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 7 × 10.87 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold
+ And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
+ Round many western islands have I been
+ Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
+ Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
+ That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
+ Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
+ Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
+ Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
+ When a new planet swims into his ken;
+ Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
+ He stared at the Pacific--and all his men
+ Look'd at each other with a wild surmise--
+ Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
+ KEATS
+
+
+
+
+ _Mulciber in Troiam, pro Troia stabat Apollo._
+
+ HOMER
+
+ THE
+ WHOLE WORKS
+ OF
+ HOMER;
+ PRINCE OF POETTS
+ In his Iliads, and
+ Odysses.
+
+ _Translated according to the Greeke,
+ By
+ Geo: Chapman._
+
+ De Ili: et Odiss:
+
+ _Omnia ab his: et in his sunt omnia: siue beati_
+ _Te decor eloquij, seu rer[=u] pondera tangunt. Angel Pol:_
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _At London printed for Nathaniell Butter.
+ William Hole Sculp:_
+
+
+ Qui Nil molitur
+ Ineptè
+
+ ACHILLES HECTOR
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 7.06 x 10.93 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ Within that awful volume lies
+ The mystery of mysteries!
+ Happiest they of human race,
+ To whom God has granted grace
+ To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
+ To lift the latch, and force the way;
+ And better had they ne'er been born
+ Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.
+ SCOTT
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ HOLY
+ BIBLE,
+
+ Conteyning the Old Testament,
+ and the New:
+
+
+ ¶_Newly translated out of_
+ the Originall Tongues: and with
+ the former Translations diligently
+ compared and reuised by his
+ Maiesties speciall Commandement,
+
+ ¶_Appointed to be read in Churches._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ¶IMPRINTED
+ at London by _Robert
+ Barker_, Printer to the
+ Kings most excellent
+ Maiestie.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ANNO DOM. 1611.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original 9.37 x 13.25 inches
+
+
+
+
+ O rare Ben Jonson
+ EPITAPH
+
+
+
+
+ THEATRVM
+
+ GVL LOCVM TENEANT S CEN
+
+
+ THE
+ WORKES
+ of
+ _Beniamin Jonson_
+
+
+ --_neque, me vt miretur turba
+ laboro:
+ Contentus paucis lectoribus._
+
+
+ _Imprinted at
+ London, by
+ Will Stansby_
+ PLAVSTRVM VISORIVM
+ _An. D._ 1616. Guhel _Hole fecit_
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 5 × 7.62 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ Scarce any book of philology in our
+ land hath in so short a time passed
+ so many impressions.
+ FULLER
+
+
+
+
+ _THE_
+ ANATOMY OF
+ MELANCHOLY,
+
+ _WHAT IT IS_.
+
+ WITH ALL THE KINDES,
+ CAVSES, SYMPTOMES, PROG_NOSTICKES,
+ AND SEVERALL
+ CVRES OF IT_.
+
+ IN THREE MAINE PARTITIONS
+ with their seuerall SECTIONS, MEMBERS,
+ and SVBSECTIONS.
+
+ _PHILOSOPHICALLY, MEDICINALLY,
+ HISTORICALLY, OPENED
+ AND CVT VP._
+
+ BY
+
+ DEMOCRITVS _Iunior_.
+
+ With a Satyricall PREFACE, conducing to
+ _the following Discourse_.
+
+ MACROB.
+ Omne meum, Nihil meum.
+
+ _AT OXFORD_,
+
+ Printed by IOHN LICHFIELD and IAMES
+ SHORT, for HENRY CRIPPS.
+
+ _Anno Dom._ 1621.
+
+
+
+
+ He was not of an age, but for all time!
+ JONSON
+
+
+
+
+ M^R. WILLIAM
+ SHAKESPEARES
+ COMEDIES,
+ HISTORIES, &
+ TRAGEDIES.
+
+ Published according to the True Originall Copies.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ _Martin Droahout sculpsit London_
+
+ LONDON
+ Printed by Isaac Jaggard, and Ed. Blount. 1623.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original 8.56 x 13.25 inches
+
+
+
+
+ This most tragic of all tragedies
+ save King Lear.
+ SWINBURNE
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ TRAGEDY
+ OF THE DUTCHESSE
+ OF Malfy.
+
+ _As it was Presented priuatly, at the Black-Friers;
+ and publiquely at the Globe, By the_
+ Kings Maiesties Seruants.
+
+ The perfect and exact Coppy, with diuerse
+ _things Printed, that the length of the Play would_
+ not beare in the Presentment.
+
+ Written by _John Webster._
+
+ Hora.----_Si quid----
+ ----Candidus Imperti si non bis vtere mecum._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LONDON:_
+
+ Printed by NICHOLAS OKES, for IOHN
+ WATERSON, and are to be sold at the
+ signe of the Crowne, in _Paules_
+ Church-yard, 1623.
+
+
+
+
+ To me Massinger is one of the most
+ interesting as well as one of the most
+ delightful of the old dramatists, not so
+ much for his passion or power, though at
+ times he reaches both, as for the love
+ he shows for those things that are
+ lovely and of good report in human
+ nature, for his sympathy with what is
+ generous and high-minded and honorable
+ and for his equable flow of a good
+ every-day kind of poetry, with few
+ rapids or cataracts, but singularly
+ soothing and companionable.
+ LOWELL
+
+
+
+
+ A NEW WAY TO PAY
+ OLD DEBTS
+ A COMOEDIE
+
+
+ _As it hath beene often acted at the Phoenix
+ in Drury-Lane, by the Queenes
+ Maiesties seruants._
+
+ The Author.
+
+ PHILIP MASSINGER.
+
+ NOLI ALTVM SAPERE (in printer's mark)
+
+ LONDON,
+ Printed by _E. P._ for _Henry Seyle_, dwelling in _S.
+ Pauls_ Church-yard, at the signe of the
+ Tygers head. Anno. M. DC.
+ XXXIII.
+
+
+
+
+ Ford was of the first order of poets. He
+ sought for sublimity, not by parcels in
+ metaphors or visible images, but
+ directly where she has her full
+ residence in the heart of man; in the
+ actions and sufferings of the greatest
+ minds. There is a grandeur of the soul
+ above mountains, seas, and the elements.
+ Even in the poor perverted reason of
+ Giovanni and Annabella we discover
+ traces of that fiery particle, which in
+ the irregular starting from out of the
+ road of beaten action, discovers
+ something of a right line even in
+ obliquity, and shows hints of an
+ improvable greatness in the lowest
+ descents and degradation of our nature.
+ LAMB
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ BROKEN
+ HEART.
+
+ A Tragedy.
+
+ _ACTED_
+ By the KINGS Majesties Seruants
+ at the priuate House in the
+ BLACK-FRIERS.
+
+
+ _Fide Honor._
+
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ _LONDON:_
+ Printed by _I. B._ for HVGH BEESTON, and are to
+ be sold at his Shop, neere the _Castle_ in
+ _Corne-hill_. 1 6 3 3.
+
+
+
+
+ Next Marlow, bathed in the Thespian springs,
+ Had in him those brave sublunary things
+ That the first poets had; his raptures were
+ All air and fire which made his verses clear;
+ For that fine madness still he did retain,
+ Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
+ DRAYTON
+
+
+
+
+ _The Famous_
+ TRAGEDY
+ OF
+ THE RICH JEW
+ OF _MALTA_.
+
+ AS IT WAS PLAYD
+ BEFORE THE KING AND
+ QVEENE, IN HIS MAJESTIES
+ Theatre at _White-Hall_, by her Majesties
+ Servants at the _Cock-pit_.
+
+
+ _Written by_ CHRISTOPHER MARLO.
+
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ _LONDON_,
+ Printed by _I. B._ for _Nicholas Vavasour_, and are to be sold
+ at his Shop in the Inner-Temple, neere the
+ Church. 1 6 3 3.
+
+
+
+
+ Sir, I pray deliver this little book to
+ my dear brother Farrar, and tell him he
+ shall find in it a picture of the many
+ spiritual conflicts that have passed
+ betwixt God and my soul, before I would
+ subject mine to the will of Jesus, my
+ Master, in Whose service I have now
+ found perfect freedom. Desire him to
+ read it; and then, if he can think it
+ may turn to the advantage of any
+ dejected poor soul, let it be made
+ public; if not, let him burn it; for I
+ and it are less than the least of God's
+ mercies.
+ HERBERT
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ TEMPLE.
+ SACRED POEMS
+ AND
+ PRIVATE EJACULATIONS.
+
+
+ By M^r. GEORGE HERBERT.
+
+
+ PSAL. 29.
+ _In his Temple doth every
+ man speak of his honour._
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+
+ CAMBRIDGE
+
+ Printed by _Thom._ _Buck_,
+ and _Roger Daniel_, printers
+ to the Universitie.
+ 1 6 3 3.
+
+
+
+
+ Did his youth scatter poetry wherein
+ Lay Love's philosophy? Was every sin
+ Pictured in his sharp satires, made so foul,
+ That some have fear'd sin's shapes, and kept their soul
+ Safer by reading verse: did he give days,
+ Past marble monuments, to those whose praise
+ He would perpetuate? Did he--I fear
+ Envy will doubt--these at his twentieth year?
+ But, more matured, did his rich soul conceive
+ And in harmonious holy numbers weave
+ A crown of sacred sonnets, fit to adorn
+ A dying martyr's brow, or to be worn
+ On that blest head of Mary Magdalen,
+ After she wiped Christ's feet, but not till then;
+ Did he--fit for such penitents as she
+ And he to use--leave us a Litany
+ Which all devout men love, and doubtless shall,
+ As times grow better, grow more classical?
+ Did he write hymns, for piety and wit,
+ Equal to those great grave Prudentius writ?
+ WALTON
+
+
+
+
+ POEMS,
+
+ _by_ J. D.
+
+ WITH
+ ELEGIES
+ ON THE AUTHORS
+ DEATH.
+
+ LONDON.
+ Printed by _M. F._ for IOHN MARRIOT,
+ and are to be sold at his shop in S^t _Dunstans_
+ Church-yard in _Fleet-street_. 1633.
+
+
+
+
+ It is not on the praises of others, but
+ on his own writings that he is to depend
+ for the esteem of posterity; of which he
+ will not easily be deprived while
+ learning shall have any reverence among
+ men; for there is no science in which he
+ does not discover some skill; and scarce
+ any kind of knowledge, profane or
+ sacred, abstruse or elegant, which he
+ does not appear to have cultivated with
+ success.
+ JOHNSON
+
+
+
+
+ à coelo salus
+
+ Religio,
+ Medici.
+
+ _Printed for Andrew Crooke. 1642. Will Marshatt. scu._
+
+
+
+
+ Waller was smooth.
+ POPE
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ WORKES
+ OF
+ EDMOND WALLER
+ Esquire,
+ Lately a Member of the Honourable
+ HOUSE of
+ COMMONS,
+ In this present Parliament.
+
+ _Imprimatur_
+ NA. BRENT. _Decem. 30. 1644._
+
+ LONDON,
+ Printed for _Thomas Walkley_.
+ 1645.
+
+
+
+
+ O volume, worthy, leaf by leaf and cover,
+ To be with juice of cedar washed all over!
+ Here's words with lines, and lines with scenes consent
+ To raise an act to full astonishment;
+ Here melting numbers, words of power to move
+ Young men to swoon, and maids to die for love:
+ _Love lies a-bleeding_ here; Evadne there
+ Swells with brave rage, yet comely everywhere;
+ Here's _A Mad Lover_; there that high design
+ Of _King and No King_, and the rare plot thine.
+ So that where'er we circumvolve our eyes,
+ Such rich, such fresh, such sweet varieties
+ Ravish our spirits, that entranc'd we see,
+ None writes love's passion in the world like thee.
+ HERRICK
+
+
+
+
+ COMEDIES
+ AND
+ TRAGEDIES
+
+ {FRANCIS BEAVMONT}
+ Written by { AND } Gentlemen.
+ {IOHN FLETCHER }
+
+ Never printed before,
+
+ And now published by the Authours
+ Originall Copies.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Si quid habent veri Vatum præsagia, vivam._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LONDON_,
+
+ Printed for _Humphrey Robinson_, at the three _Pidgeons_, and for
+ _Humphrey Moseley_ at the _Princes Armes_ in _S^t Pauls
+ Church-yard_. 1647.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 8.37 x 13.12 inches
+
+
+
+
+ What mighty epics have been wrecked by time
+ Since Herrick launched his cockle-shell of rhyme!
+ ALDRICH
+
+
+
+
+ _HESPERIDES_:
+ OR,
+ THE WORKS
+ BOTH
+ HUMANE & DIVINE
+ OF
+ ROBERT HERRICK _Esq._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ OVID.
+ _Effugient avidos Carmina nostra Rogos._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LONDON_
+ Printed for _John Williams_, and _Francis Eglesfield_,
+ and are to be sold at the Crown and Marygold
+ in Saint _Pauls_ Church-yard. 1648.
+
+
+
+
+ Taylor, the Shakespeare of divines.
+ EMERSON
+
+
+
+
+ _THE
+ RULE AND
+ EXERCISES
+ OF HOLY
+ LIVING_
+
+ _By Jer. Taylor D:D._
+
+ _Non magna loquimur
+ sed vivimus_
+
+ _LONDON printed for R. Royston
+ in Ivye Lane. 1650._
+ _Ro: Vaughan sculp._
+
+
+
+
+ That is a book you should read: such
+ sweet religion in it, next to Woolman's,
+ though the subject be bait, and hooks,
+ and worms, and fishes.
+ LAMB
+
+
+
+
+ _The
+ Compleat Angler
+ or the
+ Contemplative man's
+ Recreation_
+
+
+ Being a Discourse of
+ FISH and FISHING,
+ Not unworthy the perusal of most _Anglers_.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Simon Peter said, _I go a_ fishing: _and they said, We
+ also wil go with thee_. John 21. 3.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _London_, Printed by _T. Maxey_ for RICH. MARRIOT, in
+ S. _Dunstans_ Church-yard Fleetstreet, 1653.
+
+
+
+
+ Yet he, consummate master, knew
+ When to recede and when pursue.
+ His noble negligences teach
+ What others' toils despair to reach.
+ He, perfect dancer, climbs the rope,
+ And balances your fear and hope;
+ If, after some distinguished leap,
+ He drops his pole, and seems to slip,
+ Straight gathering all his active strength,
+ He rises higher half his length.
+ With wonder you approve his slight,
+ And owe your pleasure to your fright.
+ PRIOR
+
+
+
+
+ HUDIBRAS
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THE FIRST PART.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Written in the time of the late Wars._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LONDON._
+ Printed by _J. G._ for _Richard Marriot_, under Saint
+ _Dunstan_'s Church in _Fleetstreet_. 1663.
+
+
+
+
+ The third among the sons of light.
+ SHELLEY
+
+
+
+
+ Paradise lost.
+
+ A
+ POEM
+ Written in
+ TEN BOOKS
+
+ By _JOHN MILTON._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Licensed and Entred according
+ to Order.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _L O N D O N_
+
+ Printed, and are to be sold by _Peter Parker_
+ under _Creed_ Church neer _Aldgate_; And by
+ _Robert Boulter_ at the _Turks Head_ in _Bishopsgate-street_;
+ And _Matthias Walker_, under St. _Dunstons_ Church
+ in _Fleet-street_, 1667.
+
+
+
+
+ Ingenious dreamer! in whose well-told tale
+ Sweet fiction and sweet truth alike prevail;
+ Whose humorous vein, strong sense, and simple style,
+ May teach the gayest, make the gravest smile;
+ Witty and well-employed, and, like thy Lord,
+ Speaking in parables his slighted word:--
+ I name thee not, lest so despised a name
+ Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame.
+ COWPER
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ Pilgrim's Progress
+ FROM
+ THIS WORLD,
+ TO
+ That which is to come:
+
+ Delivered under the Similitude of a
+ DREAM
+ Wherein is Discovered,
+ The manner of his setting out,
+ His Dangerous Journey; And safe
+ Arrival at the Desired Countrey.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _I have used Similitudes_, _Hos._ 12. 10.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ By _John Bunyan._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Licensed and Entred according to Order.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ L O N D O N,
+ Printed for _Nath. Ponder_ at the _Peacock_
+ in the _Poultrey_ near _Cornhil_, 1678.
+
+
+
+
+ Behold where Dryden's less presumptuous car
+ Wide o'er the fields of glory bear
+ Two coursers of ethereal race,
+ With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
+ GRAY
+
+
+
+
+ ABSALOM
+ AND
+ ACHITOPHEL.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ A
+ POEM.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ----_Si Propiùs stes
+ Te Capiet Magis_----
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ L O N D O N,
+ Printed for _J. T._ and are to be Sold by _W. Davis_ in
+ _Amen-Corner_, 1681.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 7.75 × 12.56 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ Few books in the literature of
+ philosophy have so widely represented
+ the spirit of the age and country in
+ which they appeared, or have so
+ influenced opinion afterwards as Locke's
+ _Essay concerning Human Understanding_.
+ The art of education, political thought,
+ theology and philosophy, especially in
+ Britain, France and America, long bore
+ the stamp of the _Essay_, or of reaction
+ against it.
+ FRASER
+
+
+
+
+ AN
+ E S S A Y
+ CONCERNING
+ =Humane Understanding=.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ In Four BOOKS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nescias,
+ quam ista effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi
+ displicere!_ =Cic. de Natur. Deor.= _l._ 1.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _L O N D O N:_
+ Printed by _Eliz. Holt_, for =Thomas Basset=, at the
+ _George_ in _Fleetstreet_, near St. _Dunstan_'s
+ Church. MDCXC.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 7.18 × 12.62 inches
+
+
+
+
+ Oh! that your brows my laurel had sustained,
+ Well had I been deposed if you had reigned!
+ The father had descended for the son;
+ For only you are lineal to the throne.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Yet I this prophesy: thou shalt be seen,
+ (Though with some short parenthesis between,)
+ High on the throne of wit; and, seated there,
+ Not mine (that's little) but thy laurel wear.
+ Thy first attempt an early promise made,
+ That early promise this has more than paid;
+ So bold, yet so judiciously you dare,
+ That your least praise is to be regular.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Already I am worn with cares and age,
+ And just abandoning the ungrateful stage;
+ Unprofitably kept at heaven's expense,
+ I live a rent-charge on his providence.
+ But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn,
+ Whom I foresee to better fortune born,
+ Be kind to my remains; and, oh defend,
+ Against your judgment, your departed friend!
+ Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue,
+ But shield those laurels which descend to you:
+ And take for tribute what these lines express:
+ You merit more, but could my love do less.
+ DRYDEN
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ Way of the World,
+
+ A
+ COMEDY.
+
+ As it is ACTED
+ AT THE
+ Theatre in _Lincoln's-Inn-Fields_,
+ BY
+ His Majesty's Servants.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Written by Mr. _CONGREVE_.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Audire est Operæ pretium, procedere recte
+ Qui mæchis non vultis----_ Hor. Sat. 2. l. 1.
+ _----Metuat doti deprensa.----_ Ibid.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ L O N D O N:
+ Printed for _Jacob Tonson_, within _Gray's-Inn-Gate_ next
+ _Gray's-Inn-Lane_. 1700.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 6.5 × 8.5 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ For an Englishman there is no single
+ historical work with which it can be so
+ necessary for him to be well and
+ thoroughly acquainted as with Clarendon.
+ SOUTHEY
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ HISTORY
+ OF THE
+ REBELLION and CIVIL WARS
+ IN
+ ENGLAND,
+ Begun in the Year 1641.
+
+ With the precedent Passages, and Actions, that contributed
+ thereunto, and the happy End, and Conclusion thereof by
+ the KING's blessed RESTORATION, and RETURN upon the
+ 29^{th} of _May_, in the Year 1660.
+
+ Written by the Right Honourable
+ EDWARD Earl of CLARENDON,
+ Late Lord High Chancellour of _England_, Privy Counsellour
+ in the Reigns of King CHARLES the First and the Second.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ [Greek: Ktêma es aei.] Thucyd.
+
+ _Ne quid Falsi dicere audeat, ne quid Veri non audeat._ Cicero.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ VOLUME THE FIRST.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ _O X F O R D_,
+ Printed at the THEATER, _An. Dom._ MDCCII.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 11 × 17.5 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ It is incredible to conceive the effect his writings have had
+ upon the Town; how many thousand follies they have either quite
+ banished or given a very great check to! how much countenance
+ they have added to Virtue and Religion! how many people they
+ have rendered happy, by showing them it was their own fault if
+ they were not so! and lastly how entirely they have convinced
+ our young fops and young fellows of the value and advantages of
+ Learning! He has indeed rescued it out of the hands of pedants,
+ and fools, and discovered the true method of making it amiable
+ and lovely to all mankind. In the dress he gives it, it is a
+ most welcome guest at tea-tables and assemblies, and is relished
+ and caressed by the merchants on the Change. Accordingly, there
+ is not a Lady at Court, nor a Broker in Lombard Street, who is
+ not easily persuaded that Captain _Steele_ is the greatest
+ Scholar and Casuist of any man in England.
+ GAY
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ LUCUBRATIONS
+ OF
+ Isaac Bickerstaff Esq;
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ VOL. I.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ [Greek: ou chrê pannychion heudein boulêphoron andra.] Homer.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _L O N D O N_,
+ Printed: And sold by _John Morphew_, near _Stationers-Hall_. MDCCX.
+
+ _Note_, The Bookbinder is desired to place the INDEX after
+ [_Tosler, N^o. 114_] which ends the _First Volume_ in Folio.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 9.50 × 14.37 inches
+
+
+
+
+ Whoever wishes to attain an English
+ style, familiar but not coarse, and
+ elegant but not ostentatious, must give
+ his days and nights to the volumes of
+ Addison.
+ JOHNSON
+
+
+
+
+ NUMB. 1
+
+ The SPECTATOR.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem
+ Cogitat; ut speciosa dehinc miracula promat._ Hor.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ To be Continued every Day.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Thursday, March 1. 1711._
+
+ I Have observed, that a Reader seldom peruses a Book with
+ Pleasure 'till he knows whether the Writer of it be a black or a
+ fair Man, of a mild or cholerick Disposition, Married or a
+ Batchelor, with other Particulars of the like nature, that
+ conduce very much to the right Understanding of an Author. To
+ gratify this Curiosity, which is so natural to a Reader, I
+ design this Paper, and my next, as Prefatory Discourses to my
+ following Writings, and shall give some Account in them of the
+ several Persons that are engaged in this Work. As the chief
+ Trouble of Compiling, Digesting and Correcting will fall to my
+ Share, I must do my self the Justice to open the Work with my
+ own History.
+
+ I was born to a small Hereditary Estate, which I find, by the
+ Writings of the Family, was bounded by the same Hedges and
+ Ditches in _William_ the Conqueror's Time that it is at present,
+ and has been delivered down from Father to Son whole and entire,
+ without the Loss or Acquisition of a single Field or Meadow,
+ during the Space of six hundred Years. There goes a Story in the
+ Family, that when my Mother was gone with Child of me about
+ three Months, she dreamt that she was brought to Bed of a Judge:
+ Whether this might proceed from a Law-Suit which was then
+ depending in the Family, or my Father's being a Justice of the
+ Peace, I cannot determine; for I am not so vain as to think it
+ presaged any Dignity that I should arrive at in my future Life,
+ though that was the Interpretation which the Neighbourhood put
+ upon it. The Gravity of my Behaviour at my very first Appearance
+ in the World, and all the Time that I sucked, seemed to favour
+ my Mother's Dream: For, as she has often told me, I threw away
+ my Rattle before I was two Months old, and would not make use of
+ my Coral 'till they had taken away the Bells from it.
+
+ As for the rest of my Infancy, there being nothing in it
+ remarkable, I shall pass it over in Silence. I find that, during
+ my Nonage, I had the Reputation of a very sullen Youth, but was
+ always a Favourite of my School-Master, who used to say, _that
+ my Parts were solid and would wear well_. I had not been long at
+ the University, before I distinguished my self by a most
+ profound Silence: For, during the Space of eight Years,
+ excepting in the publick Exercises of the College, I scarce
+ uttered the Quantity of an hundred Words; and indeed do not
+ remember that I ever spoke three Sentences together in my whole
+ Life. Whilst I was in this Learned Body I applied my self with
+ so much Diligence to my Studies, that there are very few
+ celebrated Books, either in the Learned or the Modern Tongues,
+ which I am not acquainted with.
+
+ Upon the Death of my Father I was resolved to travel into
+ Foreign Countries, and therefore left the University, with the
+ Character of an odd unaccountable Fellow, that had a great deal
+ of Learning, if I would but show it. An insatiable Thirst after
+ Knowledge carried me into all the Countries of _Europe_, where
+ there was any thing new or strange to be seen; nay, to such a
+ Degree was my Curiosity raised, that having read the
+ Controversies of some great Men concerning the Antiquities of
+ _Egypt_, I made a Voyage to _Grand Cairo_, on purpose to take
+ the Measure of a Pyramid; and as soon as I had set my self right
+ in that Particular, returned to my Native Country with great
+ Satisfaction.
+
+ I have passed my latter Years in this City, where I am
+ frequently seen in most publick Places, tho' there are not above
+ half a dozen of my select Friends that know me; of whom my next
+ Paper shall give a more particular Account. There is no Place of
+ publick Resort, wherein I do not often make my Appearance;
+ sometimes I am seen thrusting my Head into a Round of
+ Politicians at _Will_'s, and listning with great Attention to
+ the Narratives that are made in those little Circular Audiences.
+ Sometimes I smoak a Pipe at _Child_'s; and whilst I seem
+ attentive to nothing but the _Post-Man_, over-hear the
+ Conversation of every Table in the Room. I appear on _Sunday
+ Nights_ at _St. James's Coffee_-House, and sometimes join the
+ little Committee of Politicks in the Inner-Room, as one who
+ comes there to hear and improve. My Face is likewise very well
+ known at the _Grecian_, the _Cocoa-Tree_, and in the Theaters
+ both of _Drury-Lane_, and the _Hay-Market_. I have been taken
+ for a Merchant
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 8.12 × 13.12 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ It breathes throughout a spirit of piety
+ and benevolence; it sets in a very
+ striking light the importance of the
+ mechanic arts, which they who know not
+ what it is to be without them are apt to
+ undervalue. It fixes in the mind a
+ lively idea of the horrors of solitude,
+ and, consequently, of the sweets of
+ social life, and of the blessings we
+ derive from conversation and mutual aid;
+ and it shows how by labouring with one's
+ own hands, one may secure independence,
+ and open for one's self many sources of
+ health and amusement. I agree,
+ therefore, with Rousseau, that this is
+ one of the best books that can be put
+ into the hands of children.
+ BEATTIE
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ LIFE
+ AND
+ STRANGE SURPRIZING
+ ADVENTURES
+ OF
+ _ROBINSON CRUSOE_,
+ Of _YORK_, MARINER:
+
+ Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all
+ alone in an un-inhabited Island on the
+ Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the
+ Great River of OROONOQUE;
+
+ Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck,
+ wherein all the Men perished but himself.
+
+ WITH
+
+ An Account how he was at last as
+ strangely deliver'd by PYRATES.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Written by Himself._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _L O N D O N:_
+ Printed for W. TAYLOR at the _Ship_ in _Pater-Noster-Row_.
+ MDCCXIX.
+
+
+
+
+ Anima Rabelasii habitans in sicco
+ COLERIDGE
+
+
+
+
+ TRAVELS
+ INTO SEVERAL
+ Remote NATIONS
+ OF THE
+ WORLD.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ In FOUR PARTS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ By _LEMUEL GULLIVER_,
+ First a SURGEON, and then a CAPTAIN
+ of several SHIPS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ VOL. I.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _L O N D O N:_
+
+ _Printed for_ BENJ. MOTTE, _at the
+ Middle_ Temple-Gate _in_ Fleet-street.
+ MDCCXXVI.
+
+
+
+
+ I think no English poet ever brought so
+ much sense into the same number of lines
+ with equal smoothness, ease, and
+ poetical beauty. Let him who doubts of
+ this peruse the _Essay on Man_ with
+ attention.
+ SHENSTONE
+
+
+
+
+ AN
+ ESSAY
+ ON
+ MAN
+ Address'd to a FRIEND.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ PART I.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _L O N D O N:_
+
+ Printed for _J. Wilford_, at the _Three Flower-de-luces_, behind
+ the _Chapter-house_, St. _Pauls_.
+ [Price One Shilling.]
+ _1733_
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 8.5 × 12.62 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ It was about this date, I suppose, that
+ I read Bishop Butler's _Analogy_; the
+ study of which has been to so many, as
+ it was to me, an era in their religious
+ opinions. Its inculcation of a visible
+ church, the oracle of truth and a
+ pattern of sanctity, of the duties of
+ external religion, and of the historical
+ character of Revelation, are
+ characteristics of this great work which
+ strike the reader at once; for myself,
+ if I may attempt to determine what I
+ most gained from it, it lay in two
+ points which I shall have an opportunity
+ of dwelling on in the sequel: they are
+ the underlying principles of a great
+ portion of my teaching.
+ NEWMAN
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ ANALOGY
+ OF
+ RELIGION,
+ Natural and Revealed,
+ TO THE
+ Constitution and Course of NATURE.
+
+ To which are added
+ Two brief DISSERTATIONS:
+ I. Of PERSONAL IDENTITY.
+ II. Of the NATURE of VIRTUE.
+
+ BY
+ JOSEPH BUTLER, L L. D. Rector of
+ Stanhope, in the Bishoprick of Durham.
+
+ _Ejus_ (Analogiæ) _hæc vis est, ut id quod dubium est, ad
+ aliquid simile de quo non quæritur, referat; ut incerta certis
+ probet._
+ Quint. Inst. Orat. L. I. c. vi.
+
+ L O N D O N:
+ Printed for JAMES, JOHN and PAUL KNAPTON, at the
+ Crown in Ludgate Street. MDCCXXXVI.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 7.87 × 10.18 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ I never heard the olde song of Percy and
+ Duglas that I found not my heart mooved
+ more than with a Trumpet.
+ SIDNEY
+
+
+
+
+ RELIQUES
+ OF
+ ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY:
+
+ CONSISTING OF
+ Old Heroic BALLADS, SONGS, and other
+ PIECES of our earlier POETS,
+ (Chiefly of the LYRIC kind.)
+ Together with some few of later Date.
+
+ VOLUME THE FIRST.
+
+ [Illustration: DURAT OPUS VATUM]
+
+ L O N D O N:
+ Printed for J. DODSLEY in Pall-Mall.
+ M DCC LXV.
+
+
+
+
+ From dewy pastures, uplands sweet with thyme,
+ A virgin breeze freshened the jaded day.
+ It wafted Collins' lonely vesper chime,
+ It breathed abroad the frugal note of Gray.
+ WATSON
+
+
+
+
+ ODES
+ ON SEVERAL
+ _Descriptive_ and _Allegoric_
+ SUBJECTS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ By WILLIAM COLLINS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+
+ ----[Greek: Eiên
+ Heurêsiepês, anageisthai
+ Prosphoros en Moisan Diphrô;
+ Tolma de kai amphilaphês Dynamis
+ Espoito,---- Pindar. Olymp. Th.]
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+
+ _L O N D O N:_
+ Printed for A. MILLAR, in the _Strand_.
+ M.DCC.XLVII.
+ (Price One Shilling.)
+
+
+
+
+ The first book in the world for the
+ knowledge it displays of the human heart.
+ JOHNSON
+
+
+
+
+ CLARISSA.
+
+ OR, THE
+ HISTORY
+ OF A
+ YOUNG LADY:
+
+ Comprehending
+ _The most_ Important Concerns _of_ Private LIFE.
+ And particularly shewing,
+ The DISTRESSES that may attend the Misconduct
+ Both of PARENTS and CHILDREN,
+ In Relation to MARRIAGE.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Published by the_ EDITOR _of_ PAMELA.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ VOL. I.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _L O N D O N:_
+ Printed for S. Richardson:
+ And Sold by A. MILLAR, over-against _Catharine-street_ in the _Strand_:
+ J. and JA. RIVINGTON, in _St. Paul's Church-yard_:
+ JOHN OSBORN, in _Pater-noster Row_;
+ And by J. LEAKE, at _Bath_.
+ M.DCC.XLVIII.
+
+
+
+
+ Upon my word I think the _oedipus
+ Tyrannus_, the _Alchymist_, and _Tom
+ Jones_ the three most perfect plots ever
+ planned.
+ COLERIDGE
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ HISTORY
+ OF
+ _TOM JONES_,
+ A
+ FOUNDLING.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ In SIX VOLUMES.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ By HENRY FIELDING, Esq.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ----_Mores hominum multorum vidit_----
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _L O N D O N:_
+ Printed for A. MILLAR, over-against
+ _Catharine-street_ in the _Strand_.
+ MDCCXLIX.
+
+
+
+
+ Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the
+ author of that poem than take Quebec.
+ WOLFE
+
+
+
+
+ AN
+ ELEGY
+ WROTE IN A
+ Country Church Yard.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LONDON:_
+ Printed for R. DODSLEY in _Pall-mall_;
+ And sold by M. COOPER in _Pater-noster-Row_. 1751.
+ [Price Six-pence.]
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 7.37 × 9.81 inches
+
+
+
+
+ I have devoted this book, the labour of
+ years, to the honour of my country, that
+ we may no longer yield the palm of
+ philology without a contest to the
+ nations of the Continent.
+ JOHNSON
+
+
+
+
+ A
+ DICTIONARY
+ OF THE
+ ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
+ IN WHICH
+ The WORDS are deduced from their ORIGINALS,
+ AND
+ ILLUSTRATED in their DIFFERENT SIGNIFICATIONS
+ BY
+ EXAMPLES from the best WRITERS.
+ TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,
+ A HISTORY of the LANGUAGE,
+ AND
+ AN ENGLISH GRAMMAR.
+ BY SAMUEL JOHNSON, A. M.
+ IN TWO VOLUMES
+
+ VOL. I.
+
+ Cum tabulis animum censoris sumet honesti:
+ Audebit quæcunque parum splendoris habebunt,
+ Et sine pondere erunt, et honore indigna serentur.
+ Verba movere loco; quamvis invita recedant,
+ Et versentur adhuc intra penetralia Vestæ:
+ Obscurata diu populo bonus eruet, atque
+ Proferet in lucem speciosa vocabula rerum,
+ Quæ priscis memorata Catonibus atque Cethegis,
+ Nunc situs informis premit et deserta vetustas. HOR.
+
+ L O N D O N,
+ Printed by W. STRAHAN,
+ For J. and P. KNAPTON; T. and T. LONGMAN; C. HITCH and L. HAWES;
+ A. MILLAR; and R. and J. DODSLEY.
+ MDCCLV.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 10 × 16.18 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis
+ TURGOT
+
+
+
+
+ Poor RICHARD improved:
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ BEING AN
+ ALMANACK
+ AND
+ _EPHEMERIS_
+ OF THE
+ MOTIONS of the SUN and MOON;
+ THE TRUE
+ PLACES and ASPECTS of the PLANETS;
+ THE
+ _RISING_ and _SETTING_ of the _SUN_;
+ AND THE
+ Rising, Setting _and_ Southing _of the_ Moon,
+ FOR THE
+ YEAR of our LORD 1758:
+ Being the Second after LEAP-YEAR.
+
+ Containing also,
+
+ The Lunations, Conjunctions, Eclipses,
+ Judgment of the Weather, Rising and
+ Setting of the Planets, Length of Days
+ and Nights, Fairs, Courts, Roads, &c.
+ Together with useful Tables,
+ chronological Observations, and
+ entertaining Remarks.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Fitted to the Latitude of Forty Degrees,
+ and a Meridian of near five Hours West
+ from _London_; but may, without feasible
+ Error, serve all the NORTHERN COLONIES.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ By _RICHARD SAUNDERS_, Philom.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _PHILADELPEIA:_
+ Printed and Sold by B. FRANKLIN, and D. HALL.
+
+
+
+
+ There your son will find analytical
+ reasoning diffused in a pleasing and
+ perspicuous style. There he may imbibe,
+ imperceptibly, the first principles on
+ which our excellent laws are founded;
+ and there he may become acquainted with
+ an uncouth crabbed author, Coke upon
+ Lytleton, who has disappointed and
+ disheartened many a tyro, but who cannot
+ fail to please in a modern dress.
+ MANSFIELD
+
+
+
+
+ COMMENTARIES
+ ON THE
+ LAWS
+ OF
+ ENGLAND.
+
+ BOOK THE FIRST.
+
+ BY
+ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, ESQ.
+ VINERIAN PROFESSOR OF LAW,
+ AND
+ SOLICITOR GENERAL TO HER MAJESTY.
+
+ O X F O R D,
+ PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.
+ M. DCC. LXV.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 8.37 × 13.37 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ I received one morning a message from
+ poor Goldsmith that he was in great
+ distress, and, as it was not in his
+ power to come to me, begging that I
+ would come to him as soon as possible. I
+ sent him a guinea, and promised to come
+ to him directly. I accordingly went as
+ soon as I was dressed, and found that
+ his landlady had arrested him for his
+ rent, at which he was in a violent
+ passion. I perceived that he had already
+ changed my guinea, and had got a bottle
+ of madeira and a glass before him. I put
+ the cork into the bottle, desired he
+ would be calm, and began to talk to him
+ of the means by which he might be
+ extricated. He then told me he had a
+ novel (_The Vicar of Wakefield_) ready
+ for the press, which he produced to me.
+ I looked into it, and saw its merit;
+ told the landlady I should soon return;
+ and, having gone to a bookseller, sold
+ it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith
+ the money, and he discharged his rent,
+ not without rating his landlady in a
+ high tone for having used him so ill.
+ JOHNSON
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ V I C A R
+ OF
+ WAKEFIELD:
+ A T A L E.
+ Supposed to be written by HIMSELF.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _Sperate miseri, cavete fælices._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ VOL. I.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ SALISBURY:
+ Printed by B. COLLINS,
+ For F. NEWBERY, in Pater-Noster-Row, London.
+ MDCCLXVI.
+
+
+
+
+ His exquisite sensibility is ever
+ counteracted by his perception of the
+ ludicrous and his ambition after the
+ strange.
+ TALFOURD
+
+
+
+
+ A
+ SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
+ THROUGH
+ FRANCE AND ITALY.
+
+ BY
+ MR. YORICK.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ VOL. I.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ L O N D O N:
+ Printed for T. BECKET and P. A. DE HONDT,
+ in the Strand. MDCCLXVIII.
+
+
+
+
+ I know not indeed of any work on the
+ principles of free government that is to
+ be compared, in instruction, and
+ intrinsic value, to this small and
+ unpretending volume of _The Federalist_,
+ not even if we resort to Aristotle,
+ Cicero, Machiavel, Montesquieu, Milton,
+ Locke, or Burke. It is equally admirable
+ in the depth of its wisdom, the
+ comprehensiveness of its views, the
+ sagacity of its reflections, and the
+ fearlessness, patriotism, candor,
+ simplicity, and elegance with which its
+ truths are uttered and recommended.
+ CHANCELLOR KENT
+
+
+
+
+ T H E
+ FEDERALIST:
+ A COLLECTION
+ OF
+ E S S A Y S,
+
+ WRITTEN IN FAVOUR OF THE
+ NEW CONSTITUTION,
+
+ AS AGREED UPON BY THE FEDERAL CONVENTION,
+ SEPTEMBER 17, 1787.
+
+ IN TWO VOLUMES
+
+ VOL. I.
+
+ NEW-YORK:
+ PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. AND A. M'LEAN,
+ No. 41, HANOVER-SQUARE,
+ M,DCC,LXXXVIII.
+
+
+
+
+ The novel of _Humphrey Clinker_ is, I do
+ think, the most laughable story that has
+ ever been written since the goodly art
+ of novel-writing began. Winifred Jenkins
+ and Tabitha Bramble must keep Englishmen
+ on the grin for ages to come; and in
+ their letters and the story of their
+ loves there is a perpetual fount of
+ sparkling laughter, as inexhaustible as
+ Bladud's well.
+ THACKERAY
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ EXPEDITION
+ OF
+ HUMPHRY CLINKER.
+
+ By the AUTHOR of
+ RODERICK RANDOM.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ IN THREE VOLUMES.
+ V O L. I.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ ----Quorsum hæc tam putida tendunt,
+ Furcifer? ad te, inquam---- HOR.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ L O N D O N,
+ Printed for W. JOHNSTON, in Ludgate-Street;
+ and B. COLLINS, in Salisbury.
+ MDCLXXI.
+
+
+
+
+ Adam Smith contributed more by the
+ publication of this single work towards
+ the happiness of men than has been
+ effected by the united abilities of all
+ the statesmen and legislators of whom
+ history has preserved an authentic
+ account.
+ BUCKLE
+
+
+
+
+ AN
+ I N Q U I R Y
+ INTO THE
+ Nature and Causes
+ OF THE
+ WEALTH of NATIONS.
+
+ By ADAM SMITH, LL. D. and F. R. S.
+ Formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow.
+
+ IN TWO VOLUMES
+ VOL. I.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ LONDON:
+ PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN; AND T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND.
+ MDCCLXXVI.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 8.62 × 10.87 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer;
+ The lord of irony--
+ BYRON
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ HISTORY
+ OF THE
+ DECLINE AND FALL
+ OF THE
+ ROMAN EMPIRE,
+
+ By EDWARD GIBBON, Esq;
+
+ VOLUME THE FIRST.
+
+ Jam provideo animo, velut qui, proximis littori vadis inducti,
+ mare pedibus ingrediuntur, quicquid progredior, in vastiorem me
+ altitudinem, ac velut profundum invehi; et crescere pene opus,
+ quod prima quæque perficiendo minui videbatur.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ L O N D O N:
+ PRINTED FOR W. STRAHAN; AND T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND.
+ MDCCLXXVI.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 8.25-10.31 inches
+
+
+
+
+ Whatever Sheridan has done, or chosen to
+ do, has been _par excellence_ always the
+ best of its kind. He has written the
+ best comedy (_School for Scandal_), the
+ best drama (in my mind far beyond that
+ St. Giles lampoon, the _Beggar's
+ Opera_), the best farce (the
+ _Critic_,--and it is only too good for a
+ farce), and the best address (_Monologue
+ on Garrick_), and, to crown all,
+ delivered the very best oration (the
+ famous Begum speech) ever conceived or
+ heard in this country.
+ BYRON
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ _SCHOOL_
+ FOR
+ _SCANDAL._
+ A
+ COMEDY.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ Satire has always shone among the rest,
+ And is the boldest way, if not the best,
+ To tell men freely of their foulest faults,
+ To laugh at their vain deeds, and vainer thoughts.
+ In satire, too, the wise took diff'rent ways,
+ To each deserving its peculiar praise.
+ DRYDEN.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _DUBLIN:_
+ Printed for J. EWLING.
+
+
+
+
+ Of all the verses that have been ever
+ devoted to the subject of domestic
+ happiness, those in his Winter Evening,
+ at the opening of the fourth book of the
+ _Task_, are perhaps the most beautiful.
+ CAMPBELL
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ TASK,
+
+ A
+ POEM,
+ IN SIX BOOKS.
+
+
+ BY WILLIAM COWPER,
+ OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ.
+
+
+ Fit surculus arbor.
+ ANONYM.
+
+
+ To which are added,
+
+ BY THE SAME AUTHOR,
+
+ AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, Esq. TIROCINIUM, or a
+ REVIEW OF SCHOOLS, and the HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ LONDON:
+ PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, N^o 72, ST. PAUL'S
+ CHURCH-YARD.
+ 1785.
+
+
+
+
+ Through busiest street and loneliest glen
+ Are felt the flashes of his pen:
+ He rules 'mid winter snows, and when
+ Bees fill their hives:
+ Deep in the general heart of men
+ His power survives.
+ WORDSWORTH
+
+
+
+
+ P O E M S,
+ CHIEFLY IN THE
+ SCOTTISH DIALECT,
+
+ BY
+ ROBERT BURNS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ THE Simple Bard, unbroke by rules of Art,
+ He pours the wild effusions of the heart:
+ And if inspir'd, 'tis Nature's pow'rs Inspire;
+ Her's all the melting thrill, and her's the kindling fire.
+ ANONYMOUS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ KILMARNOCK:
+ PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON.
+ M,DCC,LXXXVI.
+
+
+
+
+ Open the book where you will, it takes
+ you out-of-doors. In simplicity of taste
+ and natural refinement he reminds you of
+ Walton; in tenderness toward what he
+ would have called the brute creation, of
+ Cowper. He seems to have lived before
+ the Fall. His volumes are the journal of
+ Adam in Paradise.
+ LOWELL
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ NATURAL HISTORY
+ AND
+ ANTIQUITIES
+ OF
+ SELBORNE,
+ IN THE
+ COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON:
+
+ WITH
+ ENGRAVINGS, AND AN APPENDIX.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ -- -- -- "ego Apis Matinæ
+ "More modoque
+ Grata carpentis -- -- -- per laborem
+ Plurimum," -- -- -- -- -- HOR.
+
+ "Omnia benè describere, quæ in hoc mundo, a Deo facta, aut
+ Naturæ creatæ viribus elaborata fuerunt, opus est non unius
+ hominis, nec unius ævi. Hinc _Faunæ & Floræ_ utilissimæ; hine
+ _Monographi_ præstantissimi."
+
+ SCOPOLI ANN. HIST. NAT.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ L O N D O N:
+ PRINTED BY T. BENSLEY;
+ FOR B. WHITE AND SON, AT HORACE'S HEAD, FLEET STREET.
+ M,DCC,LXXXIX,
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 7.43 × 9.5 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ He is without parallel in any age or
+ country, except perhaps Lord Bacon or
+ Cicero; and his works contain an ampler
+ store of political and moral wisdom than
+ can be found in any other writer
+ whatever.
+ MACKINTOSH
+
+
+
+
+ REFLECTIONS
+ ON THE
+ REVOLUTION IN FRANCE,
+ AND ON THE
+ PROCEEDINGS IN CERTAIN SOCIETIES
+ IN LONDON
+ RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT.
+ IN A
+ LETTER
+
+ INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO A GENTLEMAN
+ _IN PARIS._
+
+ BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
+ _EDMUND BURKE._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ L O N D O N:
+ PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY, IN PALL-MALL.
+ M.DCC.XC.
+
+
+
+
+ The great Commoner of mankind
+ CONWAY
+
+
+
+
+ _RIGHTS OF MAN:_
+ BEING AN
+ ANSWER TO MR. BURKE'S ATTACK
+ ON THE
+ _FRENCH REVOLUTION._
+
+ BY
+ THOMAS PAINE,
+
+ SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO CONGRESS IN THE
+ AMERICAN WAR, AND
+ AUTHOR OF THE WORK INTITLED _COMMON SENSE_.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ L O N D O N:
+ PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.
+ MDCCXCI.
+
+
+
+
+ Homer is not more decidedly the first of
+ heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more
+ decidedly the first of the dramatists,
+ Demosthenes is not more sensibly the
+ first of orators, than Boswell is the
+ first of biographers.
+ MACAULAY
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ LIFE
+ OF
+ SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.
+
+ COMPREHENDING
+
+ AN ACCOUNT OF HIS STUDIES
+ AND NUMEROUS WORKS,
+ IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER;
+
+ A SERIES OF HIS EPISTOLARY CORRESPONDENCE
+ AND CONVERSATIONS WITH MANY EMINENT PERSONS;
+
+ AND
+
+ VARIOUS ORIGINAL PIECES OF HIS COMPOSITION,
+ NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.
+
+ THE WHOLE EXHIBITING A VIEW OF LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN
+ IN GREAT-BRITAIN, FOR NEAR HALF A CENTURY,
+ DURING WHICH HE FLOURISHED.
+
+ IN TWO VOLUMES.
+
+ BY JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
+
+ ----_Quò fit ut_ OMNIS
+ _Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella_
+ VITA SENIS.---- HORAT.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ VOLUME THE FIRST.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _L O N D O N:_
+ PRINTED BY HENRY BALDWIN,
+ FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY.
+ M DCC XCI.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 8.18 × 10.68 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ He laid us as we lay at birth
+ On the cool flowery lap of earth;
+ Smiles broke from us and we had ease,
+ The hills were round us, and the breeze
+ Went o'er the sun-lit fields again;
+ Our foreheads felt the wind and rain.
+ Our youth return'd; for there was shed
+ On spirits that had long been dead,
+ Spirits dried up and closely furl'd,
+ The freshness of the early world.
+ ARNOLD
+
+
+
+
+ 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 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 of WALTER THE DOUBTER, the Disastrous Projects of
+ WILLIAM THE TESTY, and the Chivalric Achievments of PETER THE
+ HEADSTRONG, the three Dutch Governors of NEW 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.
+
+
+
+
+ The Pilgrim of Eternity whose fame
+ Over his living head like heaven is bent.
+ SHELLEY
+
+
+
+
+ =Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.=
+
+ 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.
+ LE COSMOPOLITE.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ _LONDON:_
+ PRINTED FOR JOHN MURRAY, 32, FLEET-STREET;
+ WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH; AND JOHN CUMMING, DUBLIN.
+ _By Thomas Davison, White-Friars._
+ 1812.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in original, 7.93 × 10.18 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ I read again, and for the third time,
+ Miss Austen's very finely written novel
+ of _Pride 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
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ 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 lot
+ To 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.
+
+
+
+
+ He is made one with Nature: there is heard
+ His voice in all her music, from the moan
+ Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird;
+ He is a presence to be felt and known
+ In darkness and in light, from herb and stone,
+ Spreading itself where'er that Power may move
+ Which has withdrawn his being to its own;
+ Which wields the world with never-wearied love,
+ Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above.
+ SHELLEY
+
+
+
+
+ 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
+
+
+
+
+ ADONAIS
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS,
+ AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION ETC.
+
+ BY
+
+ PERCY. B. SHELLEY
+
+ [Greek: Astêr prin men elampes eni zôoisin heôos.
+ Nun de thanôn, lampeis hesperos en phthimenois.]
+ PLATO.
+
+
+ PISA
+ WITH THE TYPES OF DIDOT
+ MDCCCXXI.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf 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 the
+ _Elia_ on 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 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 of _quidnuncs_, 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
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf 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 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 Rome
+ Rang the pure music of the flutes of Greece.
+ SWINBURNE
+
+
+
+
+ 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
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+
+ PICKWICK PAPERS.
+
+ BY
+
+ CHARLES DICKENS.
+
+
+ [Illustration: PHIZ. feat.]
+
+
+ LONDON
+ CHAPMAN AND HALL 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.
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ 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
+
+
+
+
+ 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 rapinas
+ Accipit."
+ CLAUDIAN, In Ruf., lib. i., v. 194.
+
+ "So color de religion
+ Van a buscar plata y oro
+ Del 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 RAVEN
+
+ AND
+
+ OTHER POEMS
+
+
+ BY
+
+ EDGAR A. POE.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ NEW YORK:
+ WILEY AND PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY.
+ 1845.
+
+
+
+
+ Strew with laurel the grave
+ Of the early-dying! Alas,
+ Early she goes on the path
+ To the silent country, and leaves
+ Half her laurels unwon,
+ Dying too soon!--yet green
+ Laurels she had, and a course
+ Short, but redoubled by fame.
+ ARNOLD
+
+
+
+
+ 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 as
+ _The Vicar of Wakefield_, _The Deserted
+ Village_, or any other sweet and pious
+ idyl of our English tongue.
+ STEDMAN
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+ 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 old
+ In wig and gown:--tales not to be retold.
+ CLOUGH
+
+
+
+
+ _MELIBOEUS-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
+ of _Vanity Fair_ admired 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 FAIR
+
+ =A Novel without a Hero.=
+
+ _BY_
+
+ WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
+
+
+ _LONDON_
+ BRADBURY & EVANS, BOUVERIE STREET,
+ _1848_
+
+
+
+
+ The cleverest and most
+ fascinating of narrators.
+ FREEMAN
+
+
+
+
+ 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 name
+ Shall 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 away
+ Into the darkness, poets of a day;
+ But thou, O builder of enduring rhyme,
+ Thou shalt not pass! Thy fame in every clime
+ On earth shall live where Saxon speech has sway.
+ ALDRICH
+
+
+
+
+ IN MEMORIAM.
+
+
+ LONDON.
+ EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.
+ 1850.
+
+
+
+
+ New England's poet, soul reserved and deep,
+ November nature with a name of May.
+ LOWELL
+
+
+
+
+ THE
+ SCARLET LETTER,
+
+
+ A ROMANCE.
+
+
+ BY
+ NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
+
+
+ BOSTON:
+ TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS
+ M DCCC L.
+
+
+
+
+ Works of imagination written with an aim
+ to immediate impression are commonly
+ ephemeral; but the creative faculty of
+ Mrs. Stowe, like that of Cervantes in
+ _Don Quixote_ and of Fielding in _Joseph
+ 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.
+
+
+ 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 excellent _sermon_ in
+ Stones--as well as the best piece of
+ school-mastery in architectonics.
+ CARLYLE
+
+
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+ Reduced Leaf in orignal 7 x 10 inches.
+
+
+
+
+ There is delight in singing, tho' none hear
+ Besides the singer; and there is delight
+ In praising, tho' the praiser sit alone
+ And 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 step
+ So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue
+ So varied in discovery. But warmer climes
+ Give brighter plumage, stronger wing: the breeze
+ Of Alpine hights thou playest with, borne on
+ Beyond Sorrento and Amalfi, where
+ The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
+ LANDOR
+
+
+
+
+ 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 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
+
+
+
+
+ ADAM BEDE
+
+
+ BY
+ GEORGE ELIOT
+ AUTHOR OF
+ "SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE"
+
+
+ "So that ye may have
+ Clear images before your gladden'd eyes
+ Of nature's unambitious underwood
+ And flowers that prosper in the shade. And when
+ I speak of such among the flock as swerved
+ Or fell, those only shall be singled out
+ Upon whose lapse, or error, something more
+ Than brotherly forgiveness may attend."
+ WORDSWORTH.
+
+
+ IN THREE VOLUMES
+ VOL. I.
+
+
+ WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
+ EDINBURGH AND LONDON
+ MDCCCLIX
+
+
+ _The Right of Translation is reserved._
+
+
+
+
+ The most potent instrument for the
+ extension of the realm of natural
+ knowledge which has come into men's
+ hands since the publication of Newton's
+ _Principia_ is Darwin's _Origin of
+ Species_.
+ HUXLEY
+
+
+
+
+ ON
+ THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
+ BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION,
+
+ OR THE
+
+ PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE
+ FOR LIFE.
+
+
+ BY CHARLES DARWIN, M.A.,
+
+ FELLOW OF THE ROYAL, GEOLOGICAL, LINNÆAN, ETC., SOCIETIES;
+ AUTHOR OF 'JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES DURING H.M.S. BEAGLE'S VOYAGE
+ ROUND THE WORLD.'
+
+
+ LONDON:
+ JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
+ 1859.
+
+ _The right of Translation is reserved._
+
+
+
+
+ A planet equal to the sun
+ Which cast it, that large infidel
+ Your Omar.
+ TENNYSON
+
+
+
+
+ RUBÁIYÁT
+ OF
+ OMAR KHAYYÁM,
+ THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA.
+
+ =Translated into English Verse.=
+
+ * * * * *
+
+ LONDON:
+ BERNARD QUARITCH,
+ CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE.
+ 1859.
+
+
+
+
+ I know of no writings which combine, as
+ Cardinal Newman's do, so penetrating an
+ insight into the realities of the human
+ world around us in all its details, with
+ so unwavering an inwardness of standard
+ in estimating and judging that world; so
+ steady a knowledge of the true vanity of
+ human life with so steady a love for
+ that which is not vanity or vexation of
+ spirit.
+ HUTTON
+
+
+
+
+ APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA:
+
+ BEING
+
+ =A Reply to a Pamphlet=
+
+ ENTITLED
+
+ "WHAT, THEN, DOES DR. NEWMAN MEAN?"
+
+
+ "Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in Him, and He will do it.
+ And He will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment
+ as the noon-day."
+
+
+ BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, D.D.
+
+
+ LONDON:
+ LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, AND GREEN.
+ 1864.
+
+
+
+
+ In his prose writings there was
+ discernible an intellectual _hauteur_
+ which contrasted with the uneasiness and
+ moral incertitude of his versified
+ moods, and which implied that a
+ dogmatist stood erect under the shifting
+ sensitiveness of the poet. A
+ dogmatist--for Mr. Arnold is not merely
+ a critic who interprets the minds of
+ other men through his sensitiveness and
+ his sympathies; he delivers with
+ authority the conclusions of his
+ intellect; he formulates ideas.
+ DOWDEN
+
+
+
+
+ ESSAYS IN CRITICISM.
+
+
+ BY
+ MATTHEW ARNOLD,
+ PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
+
+
+ =London and Cambridge:=
+ MACMILLAN AND CO.
+ 1865.
+
+
+
+
+ The most faithful picture of our
+ northern winter that has yet been put
+ into poetry.
+ BURROUGHS
+
+
+
+
+ SNOW-BOUND.
+
+ A WINTER IDYL.
+
+ BY
+
+ JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
+
+
+
+
+ BOSTON:
+ TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
+ 1866.
+
+
+
+
+ Transcriber Notes:
+
+Passages in italics are indicated by _underscores_.
+
+Passages in bold are indicated by =equal signs=.
+
+Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS.
+
+OE ligatures are indicated by "oe".
+
+"o" with a macron are indicated by "[=o]".
+
+"u" with a macron are indicated by "[=u]".
+
+A single superscripted letter is represented by that single letter
+preceded by a caret.
+
+More than one superscripted letters are represented by the letters
+enclosed by curly brackets.
+
+Throughout the document there were many instances where there was no
+hyphens where one would expect hyphens to be.
+
+The text below images is an attempt to capture what was written in the
+images. In some cases, this was difficult because the nature of the
+alphabet has changed dramatically since the book was printed, and
+because some characters are somewhat illegible.
+
+In the text below images, text within printer marks are identified by
+"(in printer's mark)". Such text is often illegible, but the best
+efforts are made to read that text.
+
+Errors in punctuation and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected.
+
+
+
+
+
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