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The Bas Bleu: Or, Conversation. Addressed To Mrs. Vesey

© Hannah More

VESEY, of Verse the judge and friend,

Awhile my idle strain attend:

Don Juan: Canto The Fourteenth

© George Gordon Byron

If from great nature's or our own abyss

Of thought we could but snatch a certainty,

"Hic Vir, Hic Est"

© Charles Stuart Calverley

Often, when o'er tree and turret,
Eve a dying radiance flings,
By that ancient pile I linger
Known familiarly as "King's."

Life Is A Dream - Act III

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

FIRST SOLDIER [within]. He is here within this tower.
Dash the door from off its hinges;
Enter all

As A Strong Bird On Pinious Free

© Walt Whitman

. As a strong bird on pinions free,
Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving,
Such be the thought I'd think to-day of thee, America,
Such be the recitative I'd bring to-day for thee.

Tale VIII

© George Crabbe

grace?" -
"He knew she hated every watering-place."
"The town?"--"What! now 'twas empty, joyless,

Alfred. Book VI.

© Henry James Pye

But when he views, along the tented field,
With trailing banner, and inverted shield,
Young Donald, borne by Scotia's weeping bands,
In deeper woe the generous hero stands.

Don Juan: Canto The Seventeenth

© George Gordon Byron

The world is full of orphans: firstly, those

Who are so in the strict sense of the phrase

Psalm 34 part 2

© Isaac Watts

v.11-22
L. M.
Religious education; or, Instructions of piety.

The Decimal Point

© Norman Rowland Gale

When first sent to School (now the Station was Rugby)

I fancied my masters and took to the boys;

A Simile

© William Shenstone

What village but has sometimes seen

The clumsy shape, the frightful mien,

1914

© John Jay Chapman

ALAS, too much we loved the glittering wares

That art and education had devised

My Education

© James Kenneth Stephen

At school I sometimes read a book,
And learned a lot of lessons;
Some small amount of pains I took,
And showed much acquiescence

Don Juan: Canto The Fifth

When amatory poets sing their loves

In liquid lines mellifluously bland,

Don Juan: Canto The Second

Oh ye! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations,

Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain,

Spiritual Education.

Within time's stress, amid the facts of life,
Not in monastic solitudes, we find
A way to that is higher than ourselves.

Margrave

But who is our judge? It is likely the enormous
Beauty of the world requires for completion our ghostly increment,
It has to dream, and dream badly, a moment of its night.

The Progress of Error

Sing, muse (if such a theme, so dark, so long

May find a muse to grace it with a song),

The Progress Of Refinement. Part II.

CONTENTS OF PART II. Introduction.Sketch of the Northern barbarians.Feudal system.Origin of Chivalry.Superstition.Crusades. Hence the enfranchisement of Vassals, and Commerce encouraged. The Northern and Western Europeans, struck with the splendor of Constantinople, and the superior elegance of the Saracens.Origin of Romance. The remains of Science confined to the monasteries, and in an unknown language.Hence the distinction of learning.Discovery of the Roman Jurisprudence, and it's effects.Classic writers begin to be admiredArts revive in Italy.Greek learning introduced there, on the taking of Constantinople by the Turks.That event lamented.Learning encouraged by Leo X.Invention of Printing.The Reformation.It's effects, even on those countries that retained their old Religion. It's establishment in Britain.Age of Elizabeth. Arts and Literature flourish.Spenser.Shakespear. Milton.Dryden.The Progress of the Arts checked by the Civil War.Patronized in France. Age of Lewis XIV.Taste hurt in England during the profligate reign of Charles II.Short and turbulent reign of his Successor.King William no encourager of the Arts.Age of Queen Anne.Manners.Science and Literature flourish.Neglected by the first Princes of the House of Brunswick.Patronage of Arts by his present Majesty.Poetry not encouraged.Address to the King.General view of the present state of Refinement. Among the European Nations.France. Britain.Italy.Spain.Holland and Germany. Increasing Influence of French manners. Russia.Greece.Asia.China.Africa. America.Newly discovered islands.European Colonies.