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CONTENTS.

Page CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

Page

  • John G. Whittier: Yankee Gypsies 1

  • James Russell Lowell: Dara 16

  • Thomas Carlyle: Cromwell 19

  • T. Westwood: Little Bell 86

  • Rose Terry: The Mormon's Wife 89

  • John Gibson Lockhart: Beyond 109

  • John Milton: Autobiographical Passages 110

  • William Allingham: Wakening 117

  • Edmund Lodge: John Graham 118

  • W. Edmondstoune Aytoun: The Burial-March of
    Dundee 128

  • Goethe: Mignon as an Angel 134

  • Mrs. Gaskell: The Cage at Cranford 136

  • Edmund Spenser: Verses on Sir Philip Sidney 150

  • George Ticknor: Prescott's Infirmity of Sight 152

  • Dante: Beatrice 168


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  • Robert Southey: A Love Story 170

  • Bayard Taylor: The Mystic Summer 236

  • Mrs. Jameson: Two of the Old Masters 239

  • Frederick Tennyson: The Poet's Heart 261

  • Giorgio Vasari: Character of Fra Angelico 265

  • William Blake: Songs 267

  • J. Hain Friswell: Upon Growing Old 277

  • R. W. Emerson: The Titmouse 284

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: Little Pansie 288

  • H. W. Longfellow: Palingenesis 305

  • Sir Walter Scott: My Childhood 308