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Henry Fielding
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English novelist, playwright, journalist and poet; best known for his rich, earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel
Tom Jones. Used pseudonym "Scriblerus Secundus". Brother of
Sarah Fielding.

Published in
Miscellanies, 1743:[8]

Published in
Miscellanies, 1743:

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Merman & Mermaid
Sea songs
(Ocean's Bottom, Curious Denizens)

Copyright 1914 by E. E. Harder, Chicago, Ill.
All rights reserved.

(Grand Operatic Phantasmagoria)

Curious fish of the sea . . . Prologue —(Owondlo and Neptune)

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Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Sea songs
Daughter to that good Earl, once President
Of
Englands
Counsel, and her Treasury,
Who liv'd in both, unstain'd with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content,
Till the sad breaking of that Parlament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At
Chæronéa, fatal to liberty
Kil'd with report that Old man eloquent,
Though later born, then to have known the dayes
Wherin your Father flourisht, yet by you
Madam, me thinks I see him living yet;
So well your words his noble vertues praise,
Tha...
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Fafaïa
Love songs
Starsthat seem so close and bright,
Watched by lovers through the night,
Swim in emptiness, men say,
Many a mile and year away.

And yonder star that burns so white,
May have died to dust and night
Ten, maybe, or fifteen year,
Before it shines upon my dear.

Oh! often among men below,
Heart cries out to heart, I know,
And one is dust a many years,
Child, before the other hears.

Heart from heart is all as far,
Fafaïa, as star from star.

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Five Blind Men and an Elephant
Hymns
I.

IT was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.

II.

The
Firstapproached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:"God bless me!—but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!"

III.

The
Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried: "Ho!—what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me 't is mighty clear
This wonder of an Elepha...
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The Philological Museum, vol. 2
Work songs
The first volume of
The Philological Museumappeared in 1831, but lasted only six volumes. Volume 2, published in 1833, is notable for Connop Thirlwall's masterly paper "On the Irony of Sophocles", which pioneered the concept of dramatic irony.

CAMBRIDGE:
Printed by J. SMITH, Printer to the University;
FOR DEIGHTONS, CAMBRIDGE;
RIVINGTONS, LONDON;
AND PARKER, OXFORD.

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The Sign Language: A Manual of Signs
Work songs
Second edition; First edition was published in 1910.

Being a descriptive vocabulary of signs used by the Deaf of the United States and Canada

J. SCHUYLER LONG, A. M., LITT. D.

Principal of the Iowa School for the Deaf,
Council Bluffs, Iowa

SECOND EDITIONRevised and Enlarged

DES MOINES, IOWAROBERT HENDERSON1918

Copyright 1918, by J. Schuyler Long

(Roman figures in parentheses refer to plates; Arabic figures to pages.)

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Lives of Saints
Hymns
Agents for the sale of the Early English Text Society's Publications.

A Set of Sermons on Saints' Days formerly observed by the English Church,

EDITED FROM MANUSCRIPT JULIUS E. VII IN THE COTTONIAN COLLECTION, WITH VARIOUS READINGS FROM OTHER MANUSCRIPTS,

Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Cambridge..

LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY,
BY N. TRÜBNER & CO., 57 AND 59 LUDGATE HILL.

BY E. PICKARD HALL, M.
A., AND J. H. STACY,

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Bohemia's claim for freedom
Patriotic songs
with an introduction by
G·K· CHESTERTON·

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The country of the book and the cup

Short survey of Bohemian history

The language and literature of Bohemia

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Mike
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P. G. WODEHOUSEAUTHOR OF "THE GOLD BAT," "A PREFECT'SUNCLE" ETC.

CONTAINING TWELVE FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

4, 5 & 6 SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. 1.

First published September,1909.
Reprinted in1910, 1916, and1919.

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAINBYBILLING AND SONS, LTD., GUILDFORD.

"ARE YOU THE M. JACKSON, THEN, WHO HAD AN AVERAGE OFFIFTY-ONE POINT NOUGHT THREE LAST YEAR?"p. 225

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Lester Chadwick
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pseudonym used by the
Stratemeyer Syndicate; the authorship of
Baseball Joeseries is attributed to
Howard R. Garis

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Modern and contemporary Czech art
Work songs
MODERN ANDCONTEMPORARYCZECH ART

BYANTONÍN MATĚJČEKANDZDENĚK WIRTH

LONDON:
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD.,
BROADWAY HOUSE: 68-74 , CARTER LANE, E.
C.1924

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY HEADLEY BROTHERS,18 DEVONSHIRE STREET, E.
C.2; AND ASHFORD KENT.

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Maurice Mauris
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Victor Hugo.—Alfred de Musset.--Théophile Gautier.--Henri Murger.--Sainte-Beuve.--Gérard de Nerval.--Alexandre Dumas, fils.--Émile Augier.--Octave Feuillet.--Victorien Sardou.--Alphonse Daudet.--Émile Zola

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Cicero And The Fall Of The Roman Republic
Christmas carols
FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD

FACTA DUCIS VIVENT, OPEROSAQUEGLORIA RERUM—OVID, IN LIVIAM, 265
THE HERO'S DEEDS AND HARD-WONFAME SHALL LIVE

FROM A BUST NOW IN THE ROYAL GALLERY IN MADRID.

FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD.

27 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London.

Electrotyped, Printed and Bound by

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

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Of Gardens
Work songs
With introduction by
Helen Milmanand frontispiece by
Edmund Hort New. This essay was first published in 1625.

With
Introduƈtionby
Helen Milmanand
Frontispieceand
Cover Designby
Edmund H. New

D. B. UPDIKE, THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS, BOSTON

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"In a Garden,"
Folk songs
Gushing from the mouths of stone men
To spread at ease under the sky
In granite-lipped basins,
Where iris dabble their feet
And rustle to a passing wind,
The water fills the garden with its rushing,
In the midst of the quiet of close-clipped lawns.
Damp smell the ferns in tunnels of stone,
Where trickle and plash the fountains,
Marble fountains, yellowed with much water.
Splashing down moss-tarnished steps
It falls, the water;
And the air is throbbing with it;
With its gurgling and running;
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"The Arbour,"
Drinking songs
London: Smith, Elder and Co., pages 26–27

I'llrest me in this sheltered bower,
And look upon the clear blue sky
That smiles upon me through the trees,
Which stand so thickly clustering by;

And view their green and glossy leaves,
All glistening in the sunshine fair;
And list the rustling of their boughs,
So softly whispering through the air.

And while my ear drinks in the sound,
My winged soul shall fly away;
Reviewing long departed years
As one mild, beaming, autumn day;

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The Periplus of the Euxine Sea
Sea songs
also known as
The Periplus of the Euxine Sea

Aperiplusor guidebook to the cities, harbors, and geographic features on the shores of the Black Sea taking the form of a letter in the Koine Greek language to the Roman Emperor
Hadrianfrom
Arrian of Nicomedia, historian and governor of the Roman province of Cappadocia in the 2nd century CE.

This translation was made by the British historian William Falconer in 1805 and despite its archaic language and typography was identified as the best translat...
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Prague, city of seven hills
Hymns
Eight Etchings by
J. C. Vondrous

Courtesy of “Asia”.“PRAGUE BRIDGES”“BY J. C. VONDROUS

Courtesy of “Asia”.“TÝN CHURCH FROM THE EAST”“BY J. C. VONDROUS

Courtesy of “Asia”.“PRAGUE MARKET”“BY J. C. VONDROUS

Courtesy of “Asia”.“GOLDEN STREET, OLD-TOWN”“BY J. C. VONDROUS

Courtesy of “Asia”.“OLD-TOWN HALL, PRAGUE”“BY J. C. VONDROUS

Courtesy of “Asia”.“NOCTURNE, TÝN CHURCH”“BY J. C. VONDROUS

Courtesy of “Asia”.“ST. VITUS CHURCH ...
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Pulchrism: Championing Beauty as the Purpose of Art
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PULCHRISMCHAMPIONING BEAUTY AS THE PURPOSE OF ART

Pulchrism: Championing Beauty as the Purpose of Art

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

Carpophage Press
PO Box 32
New York, NY 10013

Pulchrism: Championing Beauty as the Purpose of Art / Jesse Waugh
ISBN 97819437300491. Art—History—Pulchrism. 2. Modern an...
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