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...ople: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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...ful People. On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, -- the city of the Hague, the capital of the ...

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...Excerpt: ?HOLE!? said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ??Ole!? He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ?Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!?...

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...l the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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...days; Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?er the road To Greenwich haste away: While some with sounding oars divide Of smoothly-flowing Thame...

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...he Manner of Anacreon, 44 -- To Disappointment, 45 -- A Fragment Found in a Lecture-Room, 46 -- Ode, 47 -- A Lover?s Complaint to his Mistress, 49 -- With Fielding?s ??Amelia??, 50 -- Written After a Walk Before Supper, 51 -- Imitated from Ossian, 52 -- The Complaint of Ninath¢ma: From the same, 53 -- Songs of the Pixies, 54 -- The Rose, 57...

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.... . 49 A Lover’s Complaint to his Mistress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 With Fielding’s ‘‘Amelia’’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Written After a ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 The Kiss . . . . . . . . 80 To a Young Lady: with a Poem on the French Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Tr... ... . . . 82 Translation of Wrangham’s . . . . . . . . . . 83 To Miss Brunton: with the preceding Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Epit... ...dful scenes appear before my eyes! Ah! see how each with frequent slaughter red, Regardless of his dying fellows’ cries O’er their fresh wounds wit... ...hee! Burn madly, Fire! o’er earth in ravage run, Then blush for shame more red by fiercer — outdone! 1 I saw when from the turtle feast The thic... ...eam: — So Satan’s Nose when Dunstan urg’d to flight, Glowing from gripe of red-hot pincers dread Athwart the smokes of Hell disastrous twilight she... ... piled earth our Being’s passless mound? Tell me, cold grave! is Death with poppies crown’d? Tired Sentinel! mid fitful starts I nod, And fain woul... ...rplus of Nature’s dread activity, Which, as she gazed on some nigh-finished vase, Retreating slow, with meditative pause, She formed with restless ... ...Z Brother, we don’t want you. There! Mrs. H. cannot arrange the flower vase without you. Thank you, Mrs. Hartman. LUC I’ll have my rev...