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VIRTUE

A SEA DIRGE

- SHAKESPEARE - -

THE COMET - - -

- 0. W. HOLMES

BATTLE OF CHALGROVE -

· LORD MACAULAY

To DAFFODILS -

ROBERT HERRICK

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW

- WASHINGTON Irving -

THE HAUNTED PALACE -

• E. A. POE

Conic MISERIES . .

- 0. W. HOLMES

What A Baby's HAND UNLOCKED

THOMAS ARCHER

GEORGE HERBERT

SONG OF THE EMIGRANTS IN BERMUDA

ANDREW MARVEL

THE DEATH OF A Miser -

SIR Walter Scott .

ADVICE TO YOUNG WOMEN

. DR. WOLCOTT -

Tom is EXPECTED .

GEORGE Eliot

The PassionATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

THE GLOVE AND THE LIONS · ·

LEIGH HUNT -

How COMMODORE TRUNNION WENT TO GET MARRIED .

SMOLLETT

AN ACCOUNT OF Rich Camacho's WEDDING

CERVANTES

TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON

- LOVELACE

THE DESERTED VILLAGE ·

GOLDSMITH .

THE UNFOLDING OF MR. MUMFORD's UMBRELLA

. MR. T. W. ROBERTSON

THE STORY OF PHEBUS AND DAPHNE, APPLIED -

• EDMUND WALLER .

YORICK'S DEATH. .

· LAURENCE STERNE

THE LUCK OF EDENHALL

· H. W. LONGFELLOW .

THE LAST MAN - -

• THOMAS CAMPBELL -

My Lost Home - .

- JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD -

STERNE AND THE Ass

LAURENCE STERNE

THE NEWCASTLE APOTHECARY

. G. COLMAN .

THE RECRUITING OFFICER

. GEORGE FARQUHAR

DEATH OF CHATHAM ..

• MACAULAY .

TO A MOUNTAIN Daisy -

. ROBERT BURNS

SIR ROGER IN THE THEATRE .

THE JESTER CONDEMNED TO DEATH

- HORACE SMITH

CAPYS PROPHESIES TO ROMULUS THE FUTURE GREATNESS OF ROME MACAULAY .

THE DECLINE OF CHIVALRY

EDMUND BURKE

THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH .

• LONGFELLOW .

RAILWAY NIGHTMARES

JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD -

THE APPLE DUMPLINGS AND A King

• Dr. Wolcott -

HARLEY SETS OUT ON HIS JOURNEY

· H. MACKENZIE

THE Pauper's DRIVE. . .

• T. Noel

THE ABBOT AND ROBERT BRUCE -

• SIR W. Scott ..

DISCOVERY OF AMERICA .

. ROBERTSON .

BRINGING UP THE GUNS

• W. J. PROWSE

THE TOURNAMENT

• Sir W. SCOTT -

BOBADIL'S PLAN FOR SAVING THE EXPENSE OF AN ARMY · BEN JONSON .

ADDISON

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The Sailor's CONSOLATION

Beau TIBBS -

SAVED . . .

CHARLES II.'s FLIGHT AFTER THE BATTLE OF WORCESTER

SHADOWS - - -

AN ADDRESS TO A MUMMY

THE MONK OF ST. ANTHONY .

My Mind TO ME A KINGDOM IS -

THE CONQUEROR WORM .

ON SEEING CHARLIE AT Play .

ABOUT HUSBANDS

THE PRESENT TO THE PRIEST -

THE BATTLE OF LAKE REGILLUS -

TELL ME NOT, SWEET - -

The GREAT PLAGUE IN LONDON -

With MUSICAL SOCIETY - .

ADVENTURES OF GULLIVER IN BROBDINGNAG

THE LEPER - - -

THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE ..

PIGWACKET CENTRE SCHOOL

ON THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES

DICK O'THE DIAMOND

WESTMINSTER ABBEY -

JEMMY DAWSON .

Tom BROWN AT SCHOOL

THE BULL Fight . . .

EMMET's Song To ERIN ...

THE BATTLE OF THE BALTIC

THE STORY OF THE CHINESE MATRON

THE THREE WARNINGS

THE CHANGELING .

CHARLES XII. -

THE COLUBRIAD.

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

To VIOLETS

THE DEATH OF NELSON .

THE CELANDINE -

A TOWN WIT DESCRIBED .

SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR

THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT

THE GARRISON Hack

THE JACOBITES' CLUB -

QUEEN MAD -

THE TROUBLES OF A Young THIEF

· WILLIAM PITT

- OLIVER GOLDSMITH

Walter THORNBURY

CLARENDON

From The Lantern

HORACE SMITH

LONGFELLOW . .

From Byrd's Collection -

E. A. POE

• E. CAPERN ...

. J. G. SAXE -

SAMUEL LOVER

MACAULAY .

- LOVELACE - -

- DEFOE - - .

HENRY S. LEIGH

SWIFT . .

· N. P. Willis -

- WASHINGTON IRVING

-0. W. HOLMES

• ADDISON -

· W. THORNBURY

• WASHINGTON IRVING

· W. SHENSTONE

• T. HUGHES, M.P.

- LORD BYRON -

• T. MOORE

- T. CAMPBELL . .

- 0. GOLDSMITH-

· MRS. THRALE -

- J. R. LOWELL -

. Dr. S. JOHNSON

COWPER -

E. A. PoE

ROBERT HERRICK

- SOUTHEY

- E. CAPERN .

GOLDSMITH .

. G. WITHER .

. MICHAEL DRAYTON

• S. L. BLANCHARD

- W. G. THORNBURY.

- SHAKESPEARE -

- DEFOE - - -

THRILLING SCENES IN DIXIE .

ARTEMUS WARD

THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS -

- LONGFELLOW -

Sir HENRY PERCY'S PENNON

FROISSART

THE POND - - - -

- DR. J. BYROM -

THE SPIRIT OF POETRY.

• LONGFELLOW .

Sir WILLIAM TEMPLE'S LOVE STORY

- MACAULAY -

The Night PIECE -

- R. HERRICK .

HASSAN; OR, THE CAMEL DRIVER -

- WILLIAM COLLINS

HONEYWOOD AND THE BAILIFF -

• GOLDSMITH -

THE OLD ILLUMINATOR -

LONGFELLOW .

TALE OF ANNINGAIT AND AJUT -

- DR. JOHNSON -

PHAETHON; OR, THE AMATEUR COACHMAN

- J. G. SAXE

FALSTAFF'S REGIMENT - - -

- SHAKESPEARE -

DESCRIPTION OF BELINDA AND THE SYLPHS

POPE .

How A GALLANT SHOULD BEHAVE HIMSELF IN St. Paul's WALKT. DECKER -

THE LOVE OF THE WORLD REPROVED .

- COWPER

THE FIGHT IN THE CHASE- .

G. ELIOT

Loss OF THE ROYAL GEORGE

- COWPER

THE PROGRESS OF Poesy.

GRAY -

DOGBERRY'S CHARGE TO THE WATCH

SHAKESPEARE -

THE EVE OF ST. JOHN -

· SIR W. Scott. . .

THE MONK - - - -

. LAURENCE STERNE ..

THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE-

- SOUTHEY

How ÆsOP BROUGHT BACK HIS MASTER'S WIFE

- SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE

BARBARA FRIETCHIE -

- J. G. WHITTIER -

THE MAN IN BLACK

• GOLDSMITH . .

BALLAD UPON A WEDDING

- SIR J. SUCKLING -

BEWARE . . ...

- H. W. LONGFELLOW

THE DEAD Ass -

- LAURENCE STERNE

THE SONG OF STEAM

. G. W. CUTTER

As You LIKE IT - -

- SHAKESPEARE -

ODE ON THE SPRING -

- GRAY . .

THE MOSQUITO

. W. C. BRYANT

PARTRIDGE AT THE PLAYHOUSE

- FIELDING

THE TWO ANGELS

LONGFELLOW -

THE GOOD-HUMOURED CLUB

- Sir R. STEELE

THE COUNTRY APOTHECARY

- G. COLMAN -

NOBLE POVERTY - . '

· LAURENCE STERNE

THE RETIRED CAT

· W. COWPER ·

THE NIGHT BEFORE THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO -

LORD BYRON -

THE BRAVERY OF BAILIE Nicol JARVIE -

. . Sir W. SCOTT

THE PLAGUE IN THE FOREST -

- J. GURNEY ADAMS

TO THE DANDELION ..

- J. R. LOWELL -

THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTTINGEN -

• Rt. Hon. G. CANNING