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denotes selection is new to this edition. Volume A contains only the section entitled "The Middle Ages." Volume B contains only the section entitled "The Romantics and Their Contemporaries." | |
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The Middle Ages | |
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Before the Norman Conquest | |
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Beowulf.Early Irish Verse | |
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To Crinog | |
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Pangur the Cat | |
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Writing in the Wood | |
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The Viking Terror | |
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The Old Woman of Beare | |
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Findabair Remembers Fróech | |
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A Grave Marked with Ogam | |
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From The Voyage of M��el Dúin | |
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Judith.The Dream of the Rood | |
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Perspectives: Ethnic and Religious Encounters | |
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Bede | |
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From An Ecclesiastical History of the English People | |
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Bishop Asser | |
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From The Life of King Alfred | |
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King Alfred | |
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Preface to St. Gregory's Pastoral Care | |
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Ohthere's Journeys | |
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle | |
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Stamford Bridge and Hastings | |
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Taliesin | |
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Urien Yrechwydd | |
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The Battle of Argoed Llwyfain | |
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The War-Band's Return | |
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Lament for Owain Son of Urien | |
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The Wanderer.Wulf and Eadwacer and the Wife's Lament.After the Norman Conquest | |
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Perspectives: Arthurian Myth in the History of Britain | |
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Geoffrey of Monmouth | |
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From History of the Kings of Britain | |
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Gerald of Wales | |
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From The Instruction of Princes | |
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Edward I | |
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Letter to the Papal Court of Rome | |
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Companion Reading | |
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A Report to Edward I | |
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Arthurian Romance | |
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Marie de France | |
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LAIS | |
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Prologue | |
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Lanval | |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.Sir Thomas Malory | |
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Morte Darthur | |
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The Poisoned Apple | |
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The Days of Destiny | |
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Geoffrey Chaucer | |
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The Canterbury Tales | |
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The General Prologue | |
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The Miller's Tale | |
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The Introduction | |
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The Tale | |
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The Wife of Bath's Prologue | |
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The Wife of Bath's Tale | |
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The Pardoner's Prologue | |
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The Pardoner's Tale | |
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The Nun's Priest's Tale | |
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The Parson's Tale | |
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The Introduction (The Remedy for the Sin of Lechery.) | |
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Chaucer's Retraction | |
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To His Scribe Adam | |
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Medieval Cycle Dramas | |
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The Second Play of the Shepherds.Middle English Lyrics | |
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The Cuckoo Song ("Sumer is icumen in") | |
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Spring ("Lenten is come with love to toune") | |
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Alisoun ("Bitwene Mersh and Averil") | |
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My Lefe Is Faren in a Lond | |
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Abuse of Women ("In every place ye may well see") | |
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The Irish Dancer ("Gode sire, pray ich thee") | |
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Adam Lay Ibounden | |
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Sing of a Maiden | |
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Mary Is With Child ("Under a tree") | |
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Jesus, My Sweet Lover ("Jesu Christ, my lemmon swete") | |
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Dafydd Ap Gwilym | |
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One Saving Place | |
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The Hateful Husband | |
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The Winter | |
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The Ruin | |
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William Dunbar | |
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Lament for the Makars | |
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In Secreit Place This Hyndir Nycht | |
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THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD | |
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John Skelton | |
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Womanhood, Wanton | |
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Lullay | |
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Knolege, Aquayntance | |
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Manerly Margery Mylk and Ale | |
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Garland of Laurel | |
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To Maystres Jane Blennerhasset | |
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To Maystres Isabell Pennell | |
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To Maystres Margaret Hussey | |
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Sir Thomas Wyatt | |
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The Long Love, That in My Thought Doth Harbor | |
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Whoso List to Hunt | |
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Companion Reading | |
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Petrarch | |
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Sonnet 190 | |
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They Flee from Me | |
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My Lute, Awake! | |
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Blame Not My Lute | |
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Stand Whoso List | |
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Edmund Spenser | |
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The Faerie Queene | |
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The First Booke of the Fairie Queene | |
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From The Second Booke | |
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Canto 12: The Bowre of Blisse | |
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Amoretti | |
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1("Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands.") | |
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22("This holy season fit to fast and pray.") | |
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62("The weary yeare his race now having run.") | |
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68("Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day.") | |
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75("One day I wrote her name upon the strand.") | |
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Epithalamion | |
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Sir Philip Sidney | |
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Astrophil and Stella | |
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1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show.") | |
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31 ("With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies.") | |
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39 ("Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace") | |
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71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know.") | |
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106 ("O absent presence, Stella is not here.") | |
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108 ("When sorrow (using mine own fire's might.") | |
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From The Apology for Poetry "The Apology" and Its Time: The Art of Poetry | |
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Stephen Gosson | |
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From The School of Abuse | |
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George Puttenham | |
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From The Art of English Poesie | |
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George Gascoigne.From Certain Notes of Instruction | |
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Samuel Daniel | |
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From A Defense of Rhyme | |
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Isabella Whitney | |
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I.W. To Her Unconstant Lover | |
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A Careful Complaint by the Unfortunate Author | |
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Elizabeth I | |
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Written with a Diamond on Her Window at Woodstock | |
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Written on a Wall at Woodstock | |
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The Doubt of Future Foes | |
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On Monsieur's Departure | |
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Psalm 13 ("Fools that true faith yet never had") | |
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The Metres of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy | |
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Book 1, No. 2 ("O in how headlong depth the drowned mind is dim.") | |
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Book 1, No. 7 ("Dim clouds.") | |
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Book 2, No. 3 ("In pool when Phoebus with reddy wain." | |
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Speeches | |
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On Marriage | |
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On Mary, Queen of Scots | |
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On Mary's Execution | |
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To the English Troops at Tilbury, Facing the Spanish Armada | |
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The Golden Speech | |
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Perspectives: Government and Self-Government | |
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William Tyndale | |
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From The Obedience of a Christian Man | |
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Juan Luis Vives | |
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From Instruction of a Christian Woman | |
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Sir Thomas Elyot | |
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From The Book Named the Governor | |
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Sir Thomas Elyot | |
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From The Defence of Good Women | |
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John Ponet | |
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From A Short Treatise of Political Power | |
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John Foxe | |
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From The Book of Martyrs | |
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Richard Hooker | |
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From The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity | |
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James I (James VI of Scotland) | |
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From The True Law of Free Monarchies | |
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Baldassare Castiglione | |
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From The Book of the Courtier | |
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Roger Ascham | |
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From The Schoolmaster. Richard Mulcaster | |
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From The First Part of the Elementary | |
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Aemilia Lanyer | |
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The Description of Cookham | |
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Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum | |
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To the Doubtful Reader | |
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To the Virtuous Reader | |
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(Invocation.) | |
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(Against Beauty Without Virtue.) | |
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(Pilate's Wife Apologizes for Eve.) | |
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Sir Walter Raleigh | |
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To the Queen | |
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On the Life of Man | |
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The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself | |
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The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana | |
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From Epistle Dedicatory | |
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(The Amazons.) | |
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(The Orinoco.) | |
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(The New World of Guiana.) | |
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"The Discovery" and Its Time: Voyage Literature | |
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Arthur Barlow | |
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From The First Vogage Made to the Coasts of America | |
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Thomas Hariot | |
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From A Brief and True Report of the Newfound Land of Virginia | |
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René Laudonniÿre | |
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From A Notable History Containing Four Voygages Made to Florida | |
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Christopher Marlowe | |
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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | |
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Companion Reading | |
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Sir Walter Raleigh | |
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The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | |
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The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus | |
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William Shakespeare | |
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Sonnets | |
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1 ("From fairest creatures we desire increase") | |
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18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") | |
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20 ("A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted") | |
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29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") | |
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30 ("When to the sessions of sweet, silent thought") | |
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55 ("Not marble nor the gilded monuments") | |
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60 ("Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore") | |
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73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold") | |
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87 ("Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing") | |
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106 ("When in the chronicle of wasted time") | |
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116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") | |
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126 ("O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power") | |
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130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") | |
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138 ("When my love swears that she is made of truth") | |
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Twelfth Night | |
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Or, What You Will | |
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Ben Jonson | |
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On Something, That Walks Somewhere | |
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On My First Daughter | |
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To John Donne | |
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On My First Son | |
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To Penshurst | |
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Song to Celia | |
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To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us | |
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John Donne | |
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The Good Morrow | |
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Song ("Go, and catch a falling star") | |
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The Undertaking | |
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The Sun Rising | |
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The Canonization | |
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The Flea | |
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The Bait | |
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | |
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The Ecstasy | |
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Holy Sonnets | |
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1 ("As due by many titles I resign.") | |
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5 ("If poisonous minerals, and if that tree.") | |
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6 ("Death be not proud, though some have called thee.") | |
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9 ("What if this present were the world's last night?") | |
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10 ("Batter my heart, three-personed God | |
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For, you.") | |
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Lady Mary Wroth | |
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Pamphilia to Amphilanthus | |
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1 ("When night's black mantle could most darkness prove.") | |
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16 ("Am I thus conquered? Have I lost the powers.") | |
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39 ("Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast.") | |
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40 ("False hope which feeds but to destroy, and spill.") | |
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74 Song ("Love a child is ever crying.") | |
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A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love | |
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77 ("In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?") | |
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103 ("My muse now happy, lay thyself to rest.") | |
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Lady Mary Wroth | |
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From The Countess of Mountgomery's Urania | |
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Perspectives: Tracts on Women and Gender | |
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Desiderius Erasmus | |
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From In Laude and Praise of Matrimony | |
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Barnabe Riche | |
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From My Lady's Looking Glass | |
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Margaret Tyler | |
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From Preface to The First Part of the Mirror of Princely Deeds | |
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Joseph Swetnam | |
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From The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women | |
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Esther Sowernam | |
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From Ester Hath Hanged Haman | |
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Hic Mulier and Haec-Vir | |
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From Hic-Mulier | |
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Or, The Man-Woman | |
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From Haec-Vir | |
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Or, The Womanish Man | |
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Robert Herrick | |
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Hesperides | |
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The Argument of His Book | |
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To the Sour Reader | |
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When He Would Have His Verses Read | |
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Delight in Disorder | |
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Corinna's Going A-Maying | |
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time | |
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Upon Julia's Clothes | |
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Discontents in Devon | |
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To Dean-Bourne, a Rude River in Devon | |
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His Last Request to Julia | |
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His Noble Numbers | |
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His Prayer for Absolution | |
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To God, on His Sickness | |
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George Herbert | |
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The Altar | |
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Easter Wings | |
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Jordan (1) | |
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Jordan (2) | |
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The Collar | |
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Love (3).Andrew Marvell | |
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To His Coy Mistress | |
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The Definition of Love | |
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The Garden | |
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An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland | |
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Katherine Philips | |
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Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal | |
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Upon the Double Murder of King Charles | |
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To the Truly Noble, and Obliging Mrs. Anne Owen | |
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To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship | |
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The World | |
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Perspectives: The Civil War, or the Wars of Three Kingdoms | |
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John Gauden | |
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From Eikon Basilike | |
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John Milton | |
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From Eikonoklastes | |
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The Petition of Gentlewomen and Tradesmen's Wives | |
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John Lilburne | |
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From England's New Chains Discovered | |
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Oliver Cromwell | |
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From Letters from Ireland | |
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John O'Dwyer of the Glenn | |
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John Milton | |
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L'Allegro | |
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Il Penseroso | |
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Lycidas | |
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How Soon Hath Time | |
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On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Parliament | |
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent | |
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Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint | |
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From Areopagitica.PARADISE LOST | |
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Book 1 | |
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From Book 2 | |
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From from Book 3 | |
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From Book 4 | |
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Book 9 | |
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From Book 10 | |
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From Book 11 | |
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From Book 12 | |
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The Restoration and The Eighteenth Century | |
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Samuel Pepys | |
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The Diary | |
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(First Entries.) | |
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(The Coronation of Charles II.) | |
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(The Fire of London.)Companion Reading | |
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John Evelyn: From Kalendarium | |
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The Royal Society | |
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Elizabeth Pepys and Deborah Willett | |
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Perspectives: The Royal Society and the New Science | |
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Thomas Sprat | |
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From The History of the Royal Society of London | |
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Philosophical Transactions | |
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From Philosophical Transactions | |
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Robert Hooke | |
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From Micrographia | |
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle | |
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Observations upon Experimental Philosophy | |
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Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses | |
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The Description of a New Blazing World | |
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From To the Reader | |
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(Creating Worlds.) | |
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(Empress, Duchess, Duke.) | |
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Epilogue | |
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John Dryden | |
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Mac Flecknoe | |
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Aphra Behn | |
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The Disappointment | |
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Companion Reading | |
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John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment | |
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To Lysander at the Music-Meeting | |
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To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More than Woman | |
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Aphra Behn and Her Time: Coterie Writing | |
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Mary, Lady Chudleigh | |
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To the Ladies. To Almystrea | |
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Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea | |
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The Introduction | |
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Friendship Between Ephelia and Ardelia | |
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A Ballad to Mrs. Catherine Fleming in London | |
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Mary Leapor | |
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The Headache | |
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To Aurelia | |
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Advice to Sophronia | |
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An Essay on Woman | |
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The Epistle of Deborah Dough | |
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Oroonoko | |
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Jonathan Swift | |
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A Description of a City Shower | |
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Stella's Birthday, 1719 | |
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The Lady's Dressing Room | |
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Companion Reading | |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, The Reasons That Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room | |
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Gulliver's Travels | |
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From Part | |
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3 A Voyage to Laputa | |
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From Part | |
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4 A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms | |
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A Modest Proposal.Companion Reading | |
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William Petty: | |
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From Political Arithmetic | |
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Alexander Pope | |
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From An Essay on Criticism | |
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The Rape of the Lock | |
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An Essay on Man | |
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Epistle 1 | |
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To the Reader | |
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The Design | |
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Argument | |
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John Gay | |
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The Beggar's Opera."The Beggar's Opera" and Its Time: Influences and Impact | |
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Thomas D'Urfey: | |
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From Wit and Mirth | |
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Or, Pills to Purge Melacholy | |
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Daniel Defoe: | |
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From The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild | |
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Henry Fielding: | |
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From The Life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great | |
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(Anonymous.) From A Narrative of All the Robberies, Escapes, &c. of John Sheppard | |
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John Thurmond | |
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From Harlequin Sheppard | |
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Charlotte Charke | |
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From A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke | |
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James Boswell | |
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From London Journal (Entries on Macheath.) | |
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William Hogarth | |
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A Rake's Progress | |
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Perspectives: Mind and God | |
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Isaac Newton | |
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From Letter to Richard Bentley | |
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John Locke | |
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From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
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Isaac Watts | |
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A Prospect of Heaven Makes Death Easy | |
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The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders | |
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Against Idleness and Mischief | |
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Man Frail, and God Eternal | |
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Miracles Attending Israel's Journey | |
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David Hume | |
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From A Treatise of Human Nature | |
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From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | |
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Christopher Smart | |
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From Jubilate Agno | |
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William Cowper | |
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Light Shining out of Darkness | |
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From The Task | |
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The Cast-away | |
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Thomas Gray | |
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
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Samuel Johnson | |
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The Rambler | |
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No. 4 (On Fiction) | |
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No. 60 (On Biography) | |
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The Idler | |
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No. 31 (On Idleness) | |
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No. 32 (On Sleep) | |
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A Dictionary of the English Language | |
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From Preface | |
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(Some Entries.) | |
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James Boswell | |
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | |
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(Introduction Boswell's Method.) | |
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(Dinner with Wilkes.) | |
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Hester Salusbury Thrale Piozzi | |
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Thraliana | |
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(First Entries.) | |
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(The Death of Henry Thrale | |
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Marriage to Gabriel Piozzi.) | |
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(The Death of Johnson.) | |
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Political and Religious Orders | |
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Money, Weights, and Measures | |
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Bibliographies | |
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Credits | |
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Index | |