harmless of turncoats, the most
wondering of _quidnuncs_, the fondest
and most penitential of faithless
husbands, the most admiring, yet
grieving, of the beholders of the ladies
of Charles II, the Sancho Panza of the
most insipid of Quixotes, James II, who
did bestow on him (in naval matters) the
government of a certain "island," which,
to say the truth, he administered to the
surprise and edification of all who
bantered him. Many official patriots
have, doubtless, existed since his time,
and thousands, nay millions of
respectable men of all sorts gone to
their long account, more or less grave
in public, and frail to their
consciences; but when shall we meet with
such another as he was?
HUNT
MEMOIRS
OF
SAMUEL PEPYS, ESQ. F.R.S.
SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY
IN THE REIGNS OF CHARLES II. AND JAMES II.
COMPRISING
H I S D I A R Y
FROM 1659 TO 1669,
DECIPHERED BY THE REV. JOHN SMITH, A. B. OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE, FROM THE ORIGINAL SHORT-HAND MS. IN THE
PEPYSIAN LIBRARY, AND A SELECTION FROM HIS
P R I V A T E C O R R E S P O N D E N C E.
[Illustration]
EDITED BY
RICHARD, LORD BRAYBROOKE.
* * * * *
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
* * * * *
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
MDCCCXXV.
Reduced Leaf in original, 9.25 × 11.87 inches.
While the love of country continues to
prevail, his memory will exist in the
hearts of the people.
WEBSTER
THE LAST
OF
THE MOHICANS;
A NARRATIVE OF
1757.
BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE PIONEERS."
* * * * *
"Mislike me not, for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun."
* * * * *
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
* * * * *
PHILADELPHIA:
H. C. CAREY & I. LEA--CHESNUT-STREET.
* * * * *
1826.
And through the trumpet of a child of Rome
Rang the pure music of the flutes of Greece.
SWINBURNE
PERICLES AND ASPASIA
BY
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, ESQ.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON
SAUNDERS AND OTLEY, CONDUIT STREET.
1836.
Thankfully I take my share of love and
kindness which this generous and gentle
and charitable soul has contributed to
the world. I take and enjoy my share and
say a benediction for the meal.
THACKERAY
THE
PICKWICK PAPERS.
BY
CHARLES DICKENS.
[Illustration: PHIZ. feat.]
LONDON
CHAPMAN AND HALL 186 STRAND
MDCCCXXXVII.
Carlyle alone with his wide humanity
has, since Coleridge, kept to us the
promises of England. His provokes rather
than informs. He blows down narrow
walls, and struggles, in a lurid light,
like the Jótuns, to throw the old woman
Time; in his work there is too much of
the anvil and the forge, not enough
hay-making under the sun. He makes us
act rather than think; he does not say,
know thyself, which is impossible, but
know thy work. He has no pillars of
Hercules, no clear goal, but an endless
Atlantis horizon. He exaggerates. Yes:
but he makes the hour great, the future
bright, the reverence and admiration
strong: while mere precise fact is a
coil of lead.
THOREAU
SARTOR RESARTUS.
IN THREE BOOKS.
* * * * *
=Reprinted for Friends from Fraser's Magazine.=
* * * * *
_Mein Vermächtniss, wie herrlich weit und breit!_
_Die Zeit ist mein Vermächtniss, mein Acker ist die Zeit._
* * * * *
LONDON:
JAMES FRASER, 215 REGENT STREET.
* * * * *
M.DCCC.XXXIV.
It was good to meet him in the
wood-paths with that pure intellectual
gleam diffused about his presence, like
the garment of a shining one; and he so
quiet, so simple, so without pretension,
encountering each man as if expecting to
receive more than he could impart.
HAWTHORNE
NATURE.
* * * * *
"Nature is but an image or imitation of
wisdom, the last thing of the soul;
nature being a thing which doth only do,
but not know."
PLOTINUS.
* * * * *
BOSTON:
JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.
M DCCC XXXVI.
The result of all his labors of
research, thought and composition was a
history possessing the unity, variety
and interest of a magnificent poem.
WHIPPLE
HISTORY
OF THE
CONQUEST OF PERU,
WITH A PRELIMINARY VIEW
OF THE
CIVILIZATION OF THE INCAS.
* * * * *
BY
WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT,
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE; OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY
OF HISTORY AT MADRID, ETC.
* * * * *
"Congestæ cumulantur opes, orbisque rapinas
Accipit."
CLAUDIAN, In Ruf., lib. i., v. 194.
"So color de religion
Van a buscar plata y oro
Del encubierto tesoro."
LOPE DE VEGA, El Nuevo Mundo, Jorn. 1.
* * * * *
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOLUME I.
* * * * *
NEW YORK:
HARPER AND BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET.
M DCCC XLVII.
When all is said, Poe remains a master
of fantastic and melancholy sound. Some
foolish old legend tells of a musician
who surpassed all his rivals. His
strains were unearthly sad, and ravished
the ears of those who listened with a
strange melancholy. Yet his viol had but
a single string, and the framework was
fashioned out of a dead woman's
breast-bone. Poe's verse--the parallel
is much in his own taste--resembles that
player's minstrelsy.
LANG
THE RAVEN
AND
OTHER POEMS
BY
EDGAR A. POE.
* * * * *
NEW YORK:
WILEY AND PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY.
1845.
Strew with laurel the grave
Of the early-dying! Alas,
Early she goes on the path
To the silent country, and leaves
Half her laurels unwon,
Dying too soon!--yet green
Laurels she had, and a course
Short, but redoubled by fame.
ARNOLD
JANE EYRE.
=An Autobiography.=
EDITED BY
CURRER BELL.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., CORNHILL.
1847.
The poem already is a little classic,
and will remain one, just as surely as
_The Vicar of Wakefield_, _The Deserted
Village_, or any other sweet and pious
idyl of our English tongue.
STEDMAN
EVANGELINE,
A
TALE OF ACADIE.
BY
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
* * * * *
BOSTON:
WILLIAM D. TICKNOR & COMPANY.
1847.
The most exquisite poetry hitherto
written by a woman.
STEDMAN
SONNETS.
BY
E. B. B.
READING:
[NOT FOR PUBLICATION.]
1847.
What racy talks of Yankee-land he had!
Up-country girl, up-country farmer-lad;
The regnant clergy of the time of old
In wig and gown:--tales not to be retold.
CLOUGH
_MELIBOEUS-HIPPONAX._
* * * * *
THE
=Biglow Papers=,
EDITED,
WITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES, GLOSSARY,
AND COPIOUS INDEX,
BY
HOMER WILBUR, A. M.,
PASTOR OF THIS FIRST CHURCH IN JAALAM, AND (PROSPECTIVE) MEMBER
OF MANY LITERARY, LEARNED AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES,
(_for which see page v._)
The ploughman's whistle, or the trivial flute,
Finds more respect than great Apollo's lute.
_Quarles's Emblems_, B. II. E. 8.
Margaritas, munde porcine, calcâsti: en, siliquas accipe.
_Jac. Car. Fil. ad Pub. Leg._ §1.
CAMBRIDGE:
PUBLISHED BY GEORGE NICHOLS.
1848.
There is a man in our own days whose
words are not framed to tickle delicate
ears; who, to my thinking, comes before
the great ones of society much as the
son of Imlah came before the throned
Kings of Judah and Israel; and who
speaks truth as deep, with a power as
prophet-like and as vital--a mien as
dauntless and as daring. Is the satirist
of _Vanity Fair_ admired in high
places?--They say he is like Fielding;
they talk of his wit, humour, comic
powers. He resembles Fielding as an
eagle does a vulture: Fielding could
stoop on carrion, but Thackeray never
does. His wit is bright, his humour
attractive, but both bear the same
relation to his serious genius that the
mere lambent sheet-lightning, playing
under the edge of the summer cloud, does
to the electric death-spark hid in its
womb.
BRONTË
VANITY FAIR
=A Novel without a Hero.=
_BY_
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
_LONDON_
BRADBURY & EVANS, BOUVERIE STREET,
_1848_
The cleverest and most
fascinating of narrators.
FREEMAN
THE
HISTORY OF ENGLAND
FROM
THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.
BY
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.
VOLUME I.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1849.
Shakespeare and Milton--what third blazoned name
Shall lips of after-ages link to these?
His who, beside the wild encircling seas,
Was England's voice, her voice with one acclaim,
For threescore years; whose word of praise was fame,
Whose scorn gave pause to man's iniquities.
What strain was his in that Crimean war?
A bugle call in battle, a low breath,
Plaintive and sweet above the fields of death!
So year by year the music rolled afar,
From Euxine wastes to flowery Kandahar,
Bearing the laurel or the cypress wreath.
Others shall have their little space of time,
Their proper niche and bust, then fade away
Into the darkness, poets of a day;
But thou, O builder of enduring rhyme,
Thou shalt not pass! Thy fame in every clime
On earth shall live where Saxon speech has sway.
ALDRICH
IN MEMORIAM.
LONDON.
EDWARD MOXON, DOVER STREET.
1850.
New England's poet, soul reserved and deep,
November nature with a name of May.
LOWELL
THE
SCARLET LETTER,
A ROMANCE.
BY
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
BOSTON:
TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS
M DCCC L.
Works of imagination written with an aim
to immediate impression are commonly
ephemeral; but the creative faculty of
Mrs. Stowe, like that of Cervantes in
_Don Quixote_ and of Fielding in _Joseph
Andrews_, overpowered the narrow
specialty of her design, and expanded a
local and temporary theme with the
cosmopolitanism of genius.
LOWELL
UNCLE TOM'S CABIN;
OR,
LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY.
BY
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
[Illustration]
VOL. I.
BOSTON:
JOHN P. JEWETT & COMPANY.
CLEVELAND, OHIO:
JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON.
1852.
A strange, unexpected and, I believe,
most true and excellent _sermon_ in
Stones--as well as the best piece of
school-mastery in architectonics.
CARLYLE
THE
=Stones of Venice.=
VOLUME THE FIRST.
=The Foundations.=
BY JOHN RUSKIN,
AUTHOR OF "THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE," "MODERN PAINTERS,"
ETC. ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR.
LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., 65. CORNHILL.
1851.
Reduced Leaf in orignal 7 x 10 inches.
There is delight in singing, tho' none hear
Besides the singer; and there is delight
In praising, tho' the praiser sit alone
And see the prais'd far off him, far above.
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's;
Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,
Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,
No man hath walkt along our roads with step
So active, so inquiring eye, or tongue
So varied in discovery. But warmer climes
Give brighter plumage, stronger wing: the breeze
Of Alpine hights thou playest with, borne on
Beyond Sorrento and Amalfi, where
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
LANDOR
MEN AND WOMEN.
BY
ROBERT BROWNING.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.
1855.
Far from making his book a mere register
of events, he has penetrated deep below
the surface and explored the causes of
these events. He has carefully studied
the physiognomy of the times and given
finished portraits of the great men who
conducted the march of the revolution.
PRESCOTT
THE RISE
OF THE
DUTCH REPUBLIC.
=A History.=
BY JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL I.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS,
329 & 331 PEARL STREET.
1856.
The sphere which she has made specially
her own is that quiet English country
life which she knew in early youth. She
has done for it what Scott did for the
Scotch peasantry, or Fielding for the
eighteenth century Englishman, or
Thackeray for the higher social stratum
of his time.
STEPHEN
ADAM BEDE
BY
GEORGE ELIOT
AUTHOR OF
"SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE"
"So that ye may have
Clear images before your gladden'd eyes
Of nature's unambitious underwood
And flowers that prosper in the shade. And when
I speak of such among the flock as swerved
Or fell, those only shall be singled out
Upon whose lapse, or error, something more
Than brotherly forgiveness may attend."
WORDSWORTH.
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. I.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCLIX
_The Right of Translation is reserved._
The most potent instrument for the
extension of the realm of natural
knowledge which has come into men's
hands since the publication of Newton's
_Principia_ is Darwin's _Origin of
Species_.
HUXLEY
ON
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION,
OR THE
PRESERVATION OF FAVOURED RACES IN THE STRUGGLE
FOR LIFE.
BY CHARLES DARWIN, M.A.,
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL, GEOLOGICAL, LINNÆAN, ETC., SOCIETIES;
AUTHOR OF 'JOURNAL OF RESEARCHES DURING H.M.S. BEAGLE'S VOYAGE
ROUND THE WORLD.'
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1859.
_The right of Translation is reserved._
A planet equal to the sun
Which cast it, that large infidel
Your Omar.
TENNYSON
RUBÁIYÁT
OF
OMAR KHAYYÁM,
THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA.
=Translated into English Verse.=
* * * * *
LONDON:
BERNARD QUARITCH,
CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE.
1859.
I know of no writings which combine, as
Cardinal Newman's do, so penetrating an
insight into the realities of the human
world around us in all its details, with
so unwavering an inwardness of standard
in estimating and judging that world; so
steady a knowledge of the true vanity of
human life with so steady a love for
that which is not vanity or vexation of
spirit.
HUTTON
APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA:
BEING
=A Reply to a Pamphlet=
ENTITLED
"WHAT, THEN, DOES DR. NEWMAN MEAN?"
"Commit thy way to the Lord, and trust in Him, and He will do it.
And He will bring forth thy justice as the light, and thy judgment
as the noon-day."
BY JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, D.D.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, AND GREEN.
1864.
In his prose writings there was
discernible an intellectual _hauteur_
which contrasted with the uneasiness and
moral incertitude of his versified
moods, and which implied that a
dogmatist stood erect under the shifting
sensitiveness of the poet. A
dogmatist--for Mr. Arnold is not merely
a critic who interprets the minds of
other men through his sensitiveness and
his sympathies; he delivers with
authority the conclusions of his
intellect; he formulates ideas.
DOWDEN
ESSAYS IN CRITICISM.
BY
MATTHEW ARNOLD,
PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.
=London and Cambridge:=
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1865.
The most faithful picture of our
northern winter that has yet been put
into poetry.
BURROUGHS
SNOW-BOUND.
A WINTER IDYL.
BY
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.
BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
1866.
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