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The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.

The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. I am now growing in years, and — since I understand that Shakspeare and Mr. Emmons are deceased — it is not impossible...

Lionizing

Lion-izing. A Tale. “—————— all people wentUpon their ten toes in wild wonderment.” Bishop Hall’s Satires I am — that is to say, I was, a great man. But I am...

The Light-House

The Light-House Jan 1 — 1796. This day — my first on the light-house — I make this entry in my Diary, as agreed on with De Grät. As regularly...

The Oval Portrait

The Oval Portrait The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open...

The Domain Of Arnheim

The Domain Of Arnheim The garden like a lady fair was cut,That lay as if she slumbered in delight,And to the open skies her eyes did shut.The azure fields of...

Landor’s Cottage

Landor’s Cottage A Pendant to ‘The Domain Of Arnheim.’ During a pedestrian tour last summer, through one or two of the river counties of New York, I found myself, as...

King Pest

King Pest The First – A Tale Containing An Allegory The Gods do bear and well allow in kingsThe things which they abhor in rascal routes. –Buckhurst’s Tragedy of Ferrex...

The Island Of The Fay

The Island Of The Fay Science, true daughter of old Time thou art,Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes!Why prey’st thou thus upon the poet’s heart,Vulture, whose wings are...

A Dream

Hear “A Dream” Read Aloud. A Dream   In visions of the dark nightI have dream’d of joy departed —But a waking dream of life and lightHath left me broken...

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