| 1 The Middle Ages (c.750--1485) |
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2 | (160) |
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15 | (30) |
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(Note on the Old English Language) |
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15 | (30) |
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45 | (29) |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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46 | (28) |
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Geoffrey Chaucer (1340--1400) |
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74 | (59) |
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(Note on the Middle English Language) |
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75 | (1) |
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(On Reading Middle English) |
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76 | (1) |
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from the Canterbury Tales |
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76 | (55) |
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76 | (10) |
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86 | (6) |
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The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale |
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92 | (13) |
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105 | (13) |
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The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale |
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118 | (6) |
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124 | (6) |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (2) |
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The Second Shepherds' Play |
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135 | (10) |
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Sir Thomas Malory (1394?--1471) |
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145 | (15) |
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145 | (1) |
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145 | (15) |
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147 | (13) |
| 2 The Renaissance (1485--1660) |
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160 | (218) |
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Sir Thomas More (1478--1535) |
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174 | (4) |
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174 | (4) |
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174 | (1) |
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174 | (2) |
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176 | (1) |
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Their Gold and Silver, and How They Keep It |
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176 | (1) |
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177 | (1) |
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Their Punishments, Their Legal Procedure, and Other Matters |
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177 | (1) |
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Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503--1542) |
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178 | (2) |
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The Lover compareth His State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea |
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179 | (1) |
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The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor |
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179 | (1) |
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179 | (1) |
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179 | (1) |
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517--1547) |
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180 | (1) |
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Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought |
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180 | (1) |
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Description of Spring Wherein Each Thing Renews, Save Only the Lover |
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180 | (1) |
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Alas, So All Things Now Do Hold Their Peace |
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180 | (1) |
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The Means to Attain Happy Life 180 |
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180 | (1) |
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Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586) |
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181 | (5) |
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from An Apology for Poetry |
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181 | (4) |
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from Astrophel and Stella |
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185 | (1) |
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185 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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186 | (1) |
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Stella, The Fullness of My Thoughts |
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186 | (1) |
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Robert Greene (1560?--1592) |
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186 | (5) |
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from A Notable Discovery of Cosenage |
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187 | (4) |
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187 | (4) |
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Edmund Spenser (1552--1599) |
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191 | (29) |
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191 | (24) |
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191 | (3) |
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194 | (1) |
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194 | (6) |
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200 | (1) |
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Canto 12 (Bower of Bliss) |
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200 | (9) |
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209 | (1) |
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Canto 6 (Garden of Adonis) |
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209 | (6) |
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215 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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One day as I unwarily did gaze |
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215 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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216 | (4) |
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Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593) |
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220 | (26) |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love |
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220 | (1) |
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (Sir Walter Raleigh) |
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220 | (1) |
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The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus |
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221 | (25) |
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Thomas Campion (1567--1620) |
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246 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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When to Her Lute Corinna Sings |
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246 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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There Is a Garden in Her Face |
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247 | (1) |
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247 | (1) |
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247 | (2) |
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The Twenty-Third Psalm in Six Translations |
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248 | (1) |
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248 | (1) |
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248 | (1) |
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248 | (1) |
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249 | (1) |
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249 | (1) |
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249 | (1) |
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William Shakespeare (1564--1616) |
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249 | (29) |
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250 | (2) |
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? |
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250 | (1) |
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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes |
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250 | (1) |
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought |
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250 | (1) |
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Not marble, nor the gilded monuments |
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251 | (1) |
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No longer mourn for me when I am dead |
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251 | (1) |
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold |
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251 | (1) |
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How like a winter hath my absence been |
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251 | (1) |
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From you have I been absent in the spring |
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251 | (1) |
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When in the chronicle of wasted time |
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251 | (1) |
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds |
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251 | (1) |
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Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame |
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252 | (1) |
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun |
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252 | (1) |
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When my love swears that she is made of truth |
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252 | (1) |
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Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth |
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252 | (1) |
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252 | (26) |
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Francis Bacon (1561--1626) |
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278 | (4) |
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Essays or Counsels---Civil and Moral |
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278 | (4) |
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278 | (1) |
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279 | (1) |
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279 | (1) |
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Of Marriage and Single Life |
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280 | (1) |
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281 | (1) |
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281 | (1) |
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Sir Thomas Overbury (1581--1613) |
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282 | (1) |
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282 | (1) |
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282 | (1) |
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282 | (1) |
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283 | (1) |
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283 | (4) |
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284 | (1) |
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284 | (1) |
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284 | (1) |
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284 | (1) |
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285 | (1) |
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285 | (1) |
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286 | (1) |
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286 | (1) |
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286 | (1) |
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To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare |
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286 | (1) |
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287 | (10) |
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Song (Go and catch a falling star) |
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288 | (1) |
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288 | (1) |
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288 | (1) |
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289 | (1) |
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289 | (1) |
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290 | (1) |
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Song (Sweetest love, I do not go) |
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290 | (1) |
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290 | (1) |
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291 | (1) |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
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292 | (1) |
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292 | (1) |
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292 | (1) |
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Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward |
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293 | (1) |
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293 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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O might those sighs and tears return again |
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294 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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At the round earth's imagined corners |
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294 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions |
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295 | (2) |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (1) |
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George Herbert (1593--1633) |
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297 | (2) |
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297 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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299 | (1) |
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Richard Crashaw (1613?--1649) |
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299 | (2) |
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On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord |
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299 | (1) |
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299 | (1) |
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300 | (1) |
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Henry Vaughan (1622--1695) |
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301 | (2) |
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301 | (1) |
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301 | (1) |
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They Are All Gone into the World of Light |
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302 | (1) |
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302 | (1) |
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Robert Burton (1577--1640) |
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303 | (7) |
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from The Anatomy of Melancholy |
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304 | (6) |
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Izaak Walton (1593--1683) |
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310 | (2) |
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310 | (1) |
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310 | (1) |
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from The Life of Dr. John Donne |
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311 | (1) |
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311 | (1) |
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Robert Herrick (1591--1674) |
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312 | (2) |
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312 | (1) |
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The Night Piece, to Julia |
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313 | (1) |
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313 | (1) |
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313 | (1) |
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313 | (1) |
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To the Virgins to Make Much of Time |
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313 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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His Prayer for Absolution |
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314 | (1) |
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Sir John Suckling (1609--1642) |
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314 | (1) |
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Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? |
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315 | (1) |
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315 | (1) |
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Thomas Carew (1598?--1639?) |
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315 | (1) |
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315 | (1) |
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315 | (1) |
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Edmund Waller (1606--1687) |
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316 | (1) |
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316 | (1) |
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Of the Last Verses in the Book |
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316 | (1) |
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Richard Lovelace (1618--1658) |
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316 | (1) |
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To Lucasta, Going to the Wars |
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317 | (1) |
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317 | (1) |
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Andrew Marvell (1621--1678) |
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317 | (3) |
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317 | (1) |
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318 | (1) |
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The Mower Against Gardens |
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319 | (1) |
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319 | (1) |
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320 | (1) |
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320 | (44) |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (2) |
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324 | (2) |
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326 | (1) |
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On the Late Massacre in Piedmont |
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327 | (1) |
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent |
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327 | (1) |
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Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint |
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327 | (1) |
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327 | (32) |
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328 | (8) |
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336 | (10) |
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from Book Three (56--134; 236--271) |
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346 | (1) |
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347 | (1) |
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348 | (11) |
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from Book Twelve (637--649) |
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359 | (1) |
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359 | (5) |
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364 | (14) |
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from The Pilgrim's Progress |
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365 | (13) |
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365 | (1) |
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366 | (2) |
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368 | (1) |
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369 | (2) |
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371 | (7) |
| 3 The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1660--1784) |
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378 | (234) |
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393 | (25) |
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393 | (1) |
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Why Should a Foolish Marriage Vow |
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393 | (1) |
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Whilst Alexis Lay Pressed |
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394 | (1) |
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394 | (10) |
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404 | (2) |
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To the Memory of Mr. Oldham |
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406 | (1) |
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To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs. Anne Killigrew |
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407 | (2) |
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A Song for St. Cecilia's Day |
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409 | (1) |
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Alexander's Feast; or, The Power of Music |
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410 | (2) |
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from An Account of the Ensuing Poem... Prefixed to Annus Mirabilis |
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412 | (1) |
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from An Essay on Dramatic Poesy |
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412 | (1) |
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from A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire |
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413 | (1) |
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from Preface to the Fables, Ancient and Modern |
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414 | (4) |
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Samuel Pepys (1633--1703) |
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418 | (8) |
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418 | (8) |
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William Wycherley (1640--1716) |
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426 | (40) |
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427 | (39) |
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Daniel Defoe (1659--1731) |
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466 | (5) |
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from An Essay upon Projects |
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466 | (3) |
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466 | (3) |
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from A Journal of the Plague Year |
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469 | (2) |
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Jonathan Swift (1667--1745) |
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471 | (36) |
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A Description of a City Shower |
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472 | (1) |
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A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General |
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473 | (1) |
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473 | (30) |
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A Letter from Captain Gulliver to His Cousin Sympson |
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474 | (1) |
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The Publisher to the Reader |
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475 | (1) |
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Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms |
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476 | (27) |
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503 | (4) |
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Joseph Addison (1672--1719) and Richard Steele (1672--1729) |
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507 | (17) |
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On Duelling (The Tatler, no. 25) |
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508 | (1) |
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The Spectator Introduces Himself to the Reader |
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509 | (2) |
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The Spectator Club (Spectator, no. 2) |
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511 | (2) |
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Westminster Abbey (Spectator, no. 26) |
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513 | (1) |
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Wit: True, False, Mixed (Spectator, no. 62) |
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514 | (2) |
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Party Patches (Spectator, no. 81) |
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516 | (2) |
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A Country Sunday (Spectator, no. 112) |
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518 | (1) |
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Sir Roger at the Assizes (Spectator, no. 122) |
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519 | (1) |
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A Consideration of Milton's Paradise Lost (Spectator, no. 267) |
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520 | (2) |
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On the Scale of Being (Spectator, no. 519) |
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522 | (2) |
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Alexander Pope (1688--1744) |
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524 | (33) |
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from An Essay on Criticism |
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524 | (6) |
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530 | (9) |
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539 | (6) |
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539 | (3) |
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542 | (3) |
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545 | (5) |
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550 | (7) |
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Samuel Johnson (1709--1784) |
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557 | (18) |
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The Vanity of Human Wishes |
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558 | (3) |
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On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet |
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561 | (1) |
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562 | (1) |
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563 | (1) |
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564 | (2) |
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The Preface to Shakespeare |
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566 | (5) |
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from The Lives of the English Poets |
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571 | (4) |
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571 | (3) |
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574 | (1) |
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James Boswell (1740--1795) |
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575 | (16) |
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576 | (1) |
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from The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. |
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576 | (15) |
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James Thomson (1700--1748) |
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591 | (5) |
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591 | (4) |
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591 | (4) |
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595 | (1) |
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596 | (3) |
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Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College |
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596 | (1) |
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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597 | (2) |
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William Collins (1721--1759) |
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599 | (1) |
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599 | (1) |
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600 | (1) |
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Oliver Goldsmith (1728--1774) |
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600 | (5) |
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601 | (4) |
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William Cowper (1731--1800) |
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605 | (7) |
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606 | (6) |
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606 | (1) |
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from Book II. The Time-Piece |
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607 | (1) |
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from Book III. The Garden |
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608 | (4) |
| 4 The Romantic Period (1784--1837) |
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612 | (186) |
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Robert Burns (1759--1796) |
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624 | (6) |
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624 | (1) |
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625 | (1) |
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626 | (1) |
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626 | (1) |
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627 | (2) |
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629 | (1) |
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630 | (1) |
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A Man's a Man for A 'That |
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630 | (1) |
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William Blake (1757--1827) |
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630 | (14) |
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631 | (1) |
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631 | (1) |
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631 | (1) |
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Song (How sweet I roam'd) |
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632 | (1) |
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632 | (2) |
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632 | (1) |
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632 | (1) |
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632 | (1) |
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633 | (1) |
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633 | (1) |
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633 | (1) |
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634 | (3) |
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634 | (1) |
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634 | (1) |
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634 | (1) |
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634 | (1) |
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635 | (1) |
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635 | (1) |
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635 | (1) |
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635 | (1) |
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635 | (1) |
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636 | (1) |
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636 | (1) |
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636 | (1) |
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636 | (1) |
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637 | (1) |
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Never Pain to Tell Thy Love |
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637 | (1) |
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637 | (1) |
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637 | (1) |
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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
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637 | (6) |
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643 | (1) |
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to Rev'd John Trusler, Aug. 23, 1799 |
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643 | (1) |
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William Wordsworth (1770--1850) |
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644 | (31) |
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645 | (3) |
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Lines Written in Early Spring |
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645 | (1) |
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645 | (1) |
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646 | (1) |
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646 | (1) |
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Lines: Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey |
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647 | (1) |
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Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known |
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648 | (1) |
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She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways |
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649 | (1) |
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I Traveled Among Unknown Men |
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649 | (1) |
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Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower |
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649 | (1) |
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A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal |
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650 | (1) |
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650 | (1) |
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650 | (1) |
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651 | (9) |
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Book I. Introduction---Childhood and School-Time |
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652 | (6) |
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from Book XII. Imagination and Taste |
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658 | (1) |
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from Book XIII. Imagination and Taste (concluded) |
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659 | (1) |
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My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold |
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660 | (1) |
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Resolution and Independence |
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660 | (2) |
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Composed Upon Westminster Bridge |
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662 | (1) |
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Composed by the Seaside, near Calais |
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662 | (1) |
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It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free |
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662 | (1) |
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662 | (1) |
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662 | (1) |
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663 | (1) |
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She Was a Phantom of Delight |
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663 | (1) |
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I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud |
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664 | (1) |
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664 | (1) |
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Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room |
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664 | (1) |
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The World Is Too Much with Us |
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665 | (1) |
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Ode: On Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood |
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665 | (2) |
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667 | (1) |
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667 | (1) |
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from Preface to Lyrical Ballads |
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668 | (7) |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834) |
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675 | (27) |
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675 | (1) |
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676 | (1) |
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This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison |
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676 | (1) |
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
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677 | (8) |
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685 | (7) |
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692 | (1) |
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693 | (2) |
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Kubla Khan, or, a Vision in a Dream |
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695 | (1) |
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696 | (2) |
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698 | (1) |
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698 | (1) |
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from Biographia Literaria |
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698 | (4) |
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Characteristics of Shakespeare's Dramas |
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698 | (4) |
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Charles Lamb (1775--1834) |
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702 | (10) |
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703 | (2) |
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Dream Children: A Reverie |
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705 | (2) |
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707 | (2) |
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709 | (3) |
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William Hazlitt (1778--1830) |
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712 | (5) |
|
from My First Acquaintance with Poets |
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712 | (5) |
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712 | (5) |
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George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824) |
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717 | (39) |
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718 | (1) |
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718 | (1) |
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Stanzas for Music (There's not a joy) |
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719 | (1) |
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Stanzas for Music (There be none of Beauty's daughters) |
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719 | (1) |
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719 | (1) |
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So We'll Go No More A-Roving |
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719 | (1) |
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720 | (35) |
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720 | (1) |
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720 | (2) |
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722 | (16) |
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738 | (13) |
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from Canto 3 (The Isles of Greece) |
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751 | (4) |
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Stanzas Written On the Road Between Florence and Pisa |
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755 | (1) |
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When a Man Hath No Freedom |
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755 | (1) |
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On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year |
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755 | (1) |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822) |
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756 | (18) |
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Mutability (We are as clouds) |
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756 | (1) |
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757 | (1) |
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Hymn to Intellectual Beauty |
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758 | (1) |
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759 | (1) |
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759 | (1) |
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760 | (1) |
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Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples |
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761 | (1) |
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761 | (1) |
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761 | (1) |
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761 | (1) |
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762 | (1) |
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762 | (1) |
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763 | (1) |
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Mutability (The flower that smiles today) |
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764 | (1) |
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764 | (1) |
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764 | (6) |
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770 | (1) |
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770 | (1) |
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Lines (When the lamp is shattered) |
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771 | (1) |
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771 | (2) |
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773 | (1) |
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774 | (16) |
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On First Looking into Chapman's Homer |
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775 | (1) |
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To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent |
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775 | (1) |
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On Seeing the Elgin Marbles |
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775 | (1) |
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When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be |
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775 | (1) |
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In a Drear-Nighted December |
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776 | (1) |
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776 | (1) |
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776 | (1) |
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777 | (1) |
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777 | (4) |
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781 | (1) |
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782 | (1) |
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782 | (1) |
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783 | (1) |
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784 | (1) |
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784 | (1) |
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785 | (1) |
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785 | (1) |
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Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art |
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786 | (1) |
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786 | (4) |
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to Benjamin Bailey, Nov. 22, 1817 |
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786 | (1) |
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to George and Thomas Keats, Dec. 21--27, 1817 |
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787 | (1) |
|
to John Hamilton Reynolds, Feb. 3, 1818 |
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|
787 | (1) |
|
to Richard Woodhouse, Oct. 27, 1818 |
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|
788 | (1) |
|
to George and Georgiana Keats, April 21, 1819 |
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789 | (1) |
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Thomas De Quincey (1785--1859) |
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790 | (8) |
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On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth |
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790 | (2) |
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792 | (6) |
|
Literature of Knowledge and Literature of Power |
|
|
792 | (6) |
| 5 The Victorian Age (1837--1914) |
|
798 | (276) |
|
Thomas Carlyle (1795--1881) |
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813 | (21) |
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813 | (12) |
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814 | (2) |
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816 | (4) |
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820 | (5) |
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825 | (9) |
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825 | (4) |
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|
829 | (5) |
|
John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801--1890) |
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|
834 | (21) |
|
from The Idea of a University |
|
|
835 | (8) |
|
Discourse v. Knowledge Its Own End |
|
|
835 | (8) |
|
from Apologia pro Vita Sua |
|
|
843 | (12) |
|
from History of My Religious Opinions to the Year 1833 |
|
|
843 | (12) |
|
John Stuart Mill (1806--1873) |
|
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855 | (21) |
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855 | (8) |
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Of Individuality, As One of the Elements of Well-Being |
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|
855 | (8) |
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863 | (13) |
|
A Crisis in My Mental History, One Stage Onward |
|
|
863 | (13) |
|
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809--1892) |
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876 | (38) |
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877 | (1) |
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877 | (1) |
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878 | (2) |
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880 | (2) |
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You Ask Me, Why, Though Ill at Ease |
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882 | (1) |
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882 | (3) |
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885 | (1) |
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886 | (1) |
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886 | (5) |
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891 | (1) |
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891 | (1) |
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891 | (2) |
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891 | (1) |
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The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls |
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892 | (1) |
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892 | (1) |
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Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead |
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892 | (1) |
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892 | (1) |
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Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal |
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892 | (1) |
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893 | (1) |
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893 | (13) |
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906 | (2) |
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Come into the Garden, Maud |
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906 | (1) |
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907 | (1) |
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908 | (1) |
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Flower in the Crannied Wall |
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908 | (1) |
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908 | (6) |
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908 | (6) |
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|
914 | (1) |
|
Robert Browning (1812--1889) |
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|
914 | (24) |
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915 | (1) |
|
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister |
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916 | (1) |
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917 | (1) |
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917 | (1) |
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918 | (1) |
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918 | (1) |
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Home-Thoughts, from Abroad |
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918 | (1) |
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Home-Thoughts, from the Sea |
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|
918 | (1) |
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The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church |
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918 | (2) |
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920 | (2) |
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922 | (1) |
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923 | (1) |
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924 | (1) |
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925 | (1) |
|
``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'' |
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925 | (2) |
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927 | (4) |
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931 | (3) |
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934 | (3) |
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937 | (1) |
|
from The Ring and the Book |
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|
937 | (1) |
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937 | (1) |
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|
937 | (1) |
|
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861) |
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|
938 | (1) |
|
from Sonnets from the Portuguese |
|
|
938 | (1) |
|
I thought once how Theocritus had sung |
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|
938 | (1) |
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|
938 | (1) |
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|
938 | (1) |
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|
939 | (1) |
|
Emily Bronte (1818--1848) |
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|
939 | (2) |
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|
939 | (1) |
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940 | (1) |
|
Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning |
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940 | (1) |
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|
940 | (1) |
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|
941 | (25) |
|
from The Stones of Venice |
|
|
941 | (17) |
|
from The Nature of Gothic |
|
|
942 | (16) |
|
from The Crown of Wild Olive |
|
|
958 | (8) |
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|
958 | (8) |
|
Matthew Arnold (1822--1888) |
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966 | (41) |
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967 | (1) |
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967 | (1) |
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967 | (2) |
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969 | (1) |
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|
970 | (1) |
|
To Marguerite---Continued |
|
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970 | (1) |
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970 | (1) |
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971 | (1) |
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972 | (1) |
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|
973 | (2) |
|
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse |
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|
975 | (3) |
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978 | (2) |
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980 | (1) |
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|
981 | (6) |
|
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time |
|
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987 | (10) |
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997 | (6) |
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998 | (5) |
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|
1003 | (4) |
|
George Meredith (1828--1909) |
|
|
1007 | (2) |
|
from Modern Love (Poems 1, 13, 16, 29, 43, 44, 47, 48, 50) |
|
|
1007 | (2) |
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|
1009 | (1) |
|
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828--1882) |
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1009 | (12) |
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1010 | (2) |
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1012 | (3) |
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1015 | (3) |
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1018 | (1) |
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1019 | (2) |
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1019 | (1) |
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1019 | (1) |
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1019 | (1) |
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1019 | (1) |
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1019 | (1) |
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1020 | (1) |
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1020 | (1) |
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1020 | (1) |
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1020 | (1) |
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1020 | (1) |
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1020 | (1) |
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1021 | (1) |
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1021 | (1) |
|
Christina Rossetti (1830--1894) |
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1021 | (8) |
|
Song (``When I am dead'') |
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1022 | (1) |
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1022 | (5) |
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1027 | (1) |
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1028 | (1) |
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1028 | (1) |
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1028 | (1) |
|
William Morris (1834--1896) |
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1029 | (10) |
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1029 | (4) |
|
The Haystack in the Floods |
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|
1033 | (1) |
|
Concerning Geffray Teste Noire |
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|
1034 | (3) |
|
from The Earthly Paradise |
|
|
1037 | (1) |
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|
1037 | (1) |
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1037 | (2) |
|
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837--1909) |
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1039 | (13) |
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1039 | (2) |
|
When the Hounds of Spring |
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1039 | (1) |
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Before the Beginning of Years |
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1040 | (1) |
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1041 | (1) |
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1041 | (2) |
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1043 | (2) |
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1045 | (2) |
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1047 | (1) |
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1048 | (1) |
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1049 | (3) |
|
Walter Horatio Pater (1839--1894) |
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1052 | (10) |
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1052 | (10) |
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1052 | (2) |
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1054 | (1) |
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1055 | (6) |
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1061 | (1) |
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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--1889) |
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1062 | (12) |
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The Wreck of the Deutschland |
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1063 | (5) |
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1068 | (1) |
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1068 | (1) |
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1068 | (1) |
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1069 | (1) |
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1069 | (1) |
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1069 | (1) |
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1070 | (1) |
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1070 | (1) |
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1070 | (1) |
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1070 | (1) |
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1070 | (1) |
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I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark |
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1071 | (1) |
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My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pit On |
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1071 | (1) |
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|
1071 | (3) |
| 6 The Modern Period (1914-- ) |
|
1074 | (167) |
|
Thomas Hardy (1840--1928) |
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1089 | (6) |
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1089 | (1) |
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1089 | (1) |
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1090 | (1) |
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1090 | (1) |
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1090 | (1) |
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1091 | (1) |
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1091 | (1) |
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1091 | (1) |
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1092 | (1) |
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1092 | (1) |
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``Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?'' |
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1093 | (1) |
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1093 | (1) |
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For Life I Had Never Cared Greatly |
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1093 | (1) |
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The Covergence of the Twain |
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1094 | (1) |
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1094 | (1) |
|
Bernard Shaw (1856--1950) |
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1095 | (26) |
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1096 | (25) |
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A. E. Housman (1859--1936) |
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1121 | (3) |
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1122 | (2) |
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1122 | (1) |
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When I Was One-and-Twenty |
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1122 | (1) |
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To an Athlete Dying Young |
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1122 | (1) |
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1122 | (1) |
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1123 | (1) |
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1123 | (1) |
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Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff |
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1123 | (1) |
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1124 | (1) |
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The Night Is Freezing Fast |
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1124 | (1) |
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1124 | (1) |
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1124 | (1) |
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1124 | (1) |
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Joseph Conrad (1857--1924) |
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1124 | (18) |
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1125 | (17) |
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Wilfred Owne (1893--1918) |
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1142 | (2) |
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1142 | (1) |
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1142 | (1) |
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1143 | (1) |
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1143 | (1) |
|
William Butler Yeats (1865--1939) |
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|
1144 | (10) |
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1144 | (1) |
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree |
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1145 | (1) |
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1145 | (1) |
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1145 | (1) |
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1145 | (1) |
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1146 | (1) |
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1147 | (1) |
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|
1147 | (1) |
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from Meditations in Time of Civil War |
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1147 | (1) |
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1147 | (1) |
|
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen |
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1148 | (1) |
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1149 | (1) |
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1149 | (1) |
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1150 | (1) |
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1151 | (1) |
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1151 | (1) |
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Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop |
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1151 | (1) |
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1152 | (1) |
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The Circus Animals' Desertion |
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1152 | (1) |
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1153 | (1) |
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1153 | (1) |
|
Virginia Woolf (1882--1941) |
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1154 | (4) |
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1155 | (3) |
|
D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930) |
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1158 | (14) |
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1159 | (1) |
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1159 | (6) |
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1165 | (6) |
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1171 | (1) |
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1171 | (1) |
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1172 | (20) |
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1173 | (17) |
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1190 | (2) |
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|
1192 | (16) |
|
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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|
1193 | (2) |
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Sweeney Among the Nightingales |
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1195 | (1) |
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1196 | (1) |
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1196 | (6) |
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1202 | (2) |
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1202 | (2) |
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1204 | (4) |
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Tradition and the Individual Talent |
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1204 | (4) |
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1208 | (6) |
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As I Walked Out One Evening |
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1209 | (1) |
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1209 | (1) |
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1210 | (1) |
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1210 | (1) |
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1210 | (1) |
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1211 | (1) |
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1212 | (1) |
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1213 | (1) |
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1214 | (6) |
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1214 | (6) |
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1220 | (5) |
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1221 | (4) |
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Dylan Thomas (1914--1953) |
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1225 | (3) |
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The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower |
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1226 | (1) |
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To-Day, This Insect, and the World I Breathe |
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1226 | (1) |
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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night |
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1226 | (1) |
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1227 | (1) |
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In My Craft or Sullen Art |
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1227 | (1) |
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A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London |
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1228 | (1) |
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1228 | (7) |
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1228 | (7) |
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1235 | (2) |
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1236 | (1) |
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1236 | (1) |
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1236 | (1) |
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1237 | (1) |
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1237 | (1) |
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1238 | (1) |
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1238 | (1) |
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1238 | (1) |
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1238 | (3) |
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1239 | (1) |
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1239 | (1) |
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1239 | (2) |
| Definitions of Literary Terms |
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1241 | (12) |
| Index of Authors and Titles |
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1253 | (6) |
| Index of First Lines |
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