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It is needless to say that special gifts of voice and delivery must give superiority to their possessors; but thought and exercise of imagination will go a long way, and there are few people who cannot be taught to read sufficiently well to give pleasure. I think it is not necessary to spend many words upon showing the desirableness of exercise in an art, which nearly everyone requires, at some time or other, to turn to practical account.

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Against Reading. (Love's Labour's Lost.)
Anthea, To; who may command him
anything

Art of Narrative, The. (Conversation.)
A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
Autumn: A Dirge
Autumn, Ode to .

Bag of the Bee, The

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Bailiff's Daughter of Islington, The

Balcony Scene. (Romeo and Juliet.)
Bearer of Evil Tidings, A. (Battle of the
Lake Regillus.)
Blossoms, To.

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Boundless Love, A. (Translated from

the Portuguese.)

Bride, A. (Epithalamion.)

Bridge of Sighs, The

Brutus' Oration. (Julius Cæsar.)

Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, The

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W. Shakespeare . 135

Lord Macaulay. 65

R. Herrick

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T. Hood

Consoling and Sustaining Power of

Beauty, The. (Endymion.)

Contention of a Bird and a Musician.

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Sir W. Scott

Indian Serenade, The
Inequality of Human Lives, The. (Ex-
cursion.)
Influence of Natural Objects in Calling
Forth and Strengthening the Imagina-
tion in Early Youth. (Prelude.).
Inscription for a Fountain on a Heath.
Inscriptions Supposed to be Found in
and near a Hermit's Cell

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Intimations of Immortality from Recol-
lections of Early Childhood

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John of Gaunt's Dying Lament for his
Country. (Richard II.)

King John and the Abbot of Canterbury

Lament, A

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F. Quarles

R. Browning

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Madrigal

Mark Antony's Oration. (Julius Cæsar.)
Mark Antony's Prophecy by Cæsar's
Corpse. (Julius Cæsar.)
Mazeppa. (Extract.)
Meadows, To.

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Othello's Defence of his Courtship of
Desdemona. (Othello.)

Ozymandias of Egypt

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Pains of Exile, The. (Richard II.)
Parrot, The

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Passion for Novelty, The. (Troilus and
Cressida.)

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Lord Byron

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R. Browning
J. Bunyan
P. B. Shelley
B. W. Procter

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