The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a...
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The Philosophy of Composition
An essay
Charles Dickens, in a note now lying before me, alluding to an examination I once made of the mechanism of “Barnaby Rudge,” says—“By the way, are you aware that Godwin wrote his...
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An Essay on Man
In Four Epistles
Having proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my Lord Bacon’s expression) ‘come home to men’s business and bosoms,’ I...
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In Four Epistles
Having proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my Lord Bacon’s expression) ‘come home to men’s business and bosoms,’ I...
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Germania
On the Origin and Situation of the Germans
Germany as a whole is separated from the Galli, the Rhaeti, and Pannonii, by the rivers Rhine and Danube; mountain ranges, or the fear which each feels for the other, divide it...
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The Life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola
To bequeath to posterity a record of the deeds and characters of distinguished men is an ancient practice which even the present age, careless as it is of its own sons, has not...
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