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The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron. With an introductory memoir by William B. Scott

George Gordon Byron Byron · 1887 · Scanned text

632,428 words · about 44 h 17 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Language
English
Published
1887
Length
632,428 words · about 44 h 17 min
Sections
6 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
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Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (6)
  1. Front matter about 36 min
  2. Preface about 21 h 27 min
  3. Part I about 3 h 23 min
  4. Part II about 18 min
  5. Part III about 17 h 8 min
  6. Appendix about 1 h 25 min

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Front matter

Byron's Poetical & Dramatic Wo r k s Fifteen Volumes in an Oak Bookcase. Price One Guinea. " Marvels of clear type and general neatness." — Daily Telegraph. MORLEY'S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY. In Monthly Volumes, ONE SHILLING Each. READY ON THE 25M OF EACH MONTH. i. SHERIDAN'S PLAYS. 2. PLAYS FROM MOLIERE. By English Dramatists. 3. MARLOWE'S FAUSTUS & GOETHE'S FAUST. 4* CHRONICLE OF THE CID. 5. RABELAIS' GARGANTUA AND THE HEROIC DEEDS OF PANTAGRUEL. 6. THE PRINCE. By Machiavelli. 7. BACON'S ESSAYS. S. DE FOE'S JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR. 9. LOCKE ON TOLERATION AND ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT; WITH SIR ROBERT FILMER'S PATRIARCHA. 10. BUTLER'S ANALOGY OF RELIGION. 11. DRYDEN'S VIRGIL. 12. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT. 13. HERRICK'S HESPERIDES. 14. COLERIDGE'S TABLE TALK: WITH THE ANCIENT MARINER AND CHRISTABEI,. 15.

BOCCACCIO'S DECAMERON. 16. STERNE'S TRISTRAM SHANDY. 17. HOMER'S ILIAD, Translated by George Chapman. 18. MEDIÆVAL TALES. 19. JOHNSON'S RASSELAS; AND VOLTAIRE'S OfvNDIDE. 20. PLAYS AND POEMS BY BEN JONSON. 21. HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN. 22. BUTLER'S HUDIBRAS. 23. IDEAL COMMONWEALTHS: MORE'S UTOPIA ; BACON'S NEW ATLANTIS ; AND CAM* PANELLA'S CITY OF THE SUN. 24. CAVENDISH'S LIFE OF WOLSEY. 25 and 26. DON QUIXOTE (Two Volumes). GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, LONDON, GLASGOW, AND NEW YORK. BURLESQUE PLAYS AND POEMS. [lation. DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY. Longfellow's Trans- GOLDSMITH'S VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. 27. 28. 29. PLAYS AND POEMS. FABLES and PROVERBS from the SANSKRIT. CHARLES LAMB'S ESSAYS OF ELIA. THE HISTORY OF THOMAS ELLWOOD, 3°* 3T 32 Written by Himself. EMERSON'S ESSAYS, REPRESENTATIVE MEN, AND SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE. 33> SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF NELSON. 34* 35 DE QUINCE Y'S OPIUM EATER, SHAKS- PEARE, GOETHE. 36.

STORIES OF IRELAND. By Maria Edgeworth. 37. THE PLATS OF ARISTOPHANES, Translated by Frere. * 38. SPEECHES AND LETTERS. By Edmund Burke. SPEECHES AND LETTERS. By Edmund Burke. THOMAS A KEMPIS' IMITATION OF CHRIST. POPULAR SONGS OF IRELAND, Collected by Thomas Cvoston Croker. THE PLAYS of ÆSCHYLUS, Translated by R. Potter. GOETHE'S FAUST, the Second Part. 39* 4°' 41 42. famous pamphlets; 43 SOPHOCLES, Translated by Francklin. TALES OF TERROR AND WONDER. 44* 45 46 VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CREATION. 47 THE BARONS' WARS, &c. By Michael Drayton. COBBETT'S ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN. 48 THE BANQUET OF DANTE. Translated by Elizabeth Price Sayer. 49 5° WALKER'S ORIGINAL. POEMS AND BALLADS BY SCHILLER. PEELE'S PLAYS AND POEMS. Si 5- HARRINGTON'S OCEANA. EURIPIDES— ALCESTIS, ETC. 53 54* GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, LONDON, GLASGOW, AND NEW YORK.

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