A Book of Victorian Poetry and Prose

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CUP Archive, 1915 - 257 pages

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Contents

SYSTEMATIC THINKERS
1
JANE WELSH CARLYLE Bread Making
7
SIR CHARLES LYELL The Homekeeping Geologist
36
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY An Ideal University
45
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
CHARLES LEVER The Hanging of Major Monsoon
146
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

Dante GABRIEL ROSSETTI The White Ship
109
COVENTRY PATMORE
115
J B LEICESTER Warren LORD DE TABLEY Jael
124
JAMES THOMSON The Moon
130
EARL OF LYTTON Owen MEREDITH The Ruined Palace
136
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK A Few to Think and Many to Act
140
GEORGE GROTE How to become an Orator
204
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
OSCAR WILDE To thine Own Self be True
233

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