A Book of Victorian Poetry and Prose

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CUP Archive, 1915 - 257 pages

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Contents

SYSTEMATIC THINKERS
1
HARRIET MARTINEAU Pleasure and Pain
8
The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species
48
HARTLEY COLERIDGE Goldfish in their Bowl
59
You ask me
69
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Epitaph on a Jacobite
89
EDWARD FITZGERALD Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
96
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Qua Cursum Ventus
101
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Newmarket
152
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY The 29th December
159
A Brontë Hero
166
MRS GASKELL A Visit to an Old Bachelor
172
CHARLES KINGSLEY Fairies
181
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Father and Son
190
GEORGE GISSING Sundays
198
GEORGE GROTE How to become an Orator
204

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI The White Ship
109
J B LEICESTER Warren Lord De TablEY Jael
125
EARL OF LYTton Owen MeREDITH The Ruined Palace
136
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK A Few to Think and Many to Act
140
CHARLES LEVER The Hanging of Major Monsoon
146
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY England under
210
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE The Labour Question in Eng
213
MANDELL CREIGHTON The Ideals of Raffaelle the Painter
219
FREDERICK WILLIAM Maitland
227
JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART A Scene at Abbotsford
236

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