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CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE FIRST.
LECTURE THE FIRST.
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THE CELTIC LANGUAGE..
THE ORIGIN AND FORMATION OF THE ANGLO-SAXON,
OSSIAN, THE CELTIC POET....
His Address to the Sun,
His Last Song..
GILDAS....
NENNIUS..
ST. COLUMBANUS.
CEDMON...
Satan's Speech..
JOHN OF BEVERLY.
BEDE.
KING ALFRED.....
A Song of Sorrow
A Song of Despair.
A Psalm to God..
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28
ROBERT LANGLAND........
Mercy and Truth allegorized....
GEOFFREY CHAUCER....
Passages from Troilas and Cresseide
Description of a Poor Country Widow.
The Death of Arcite...
Departure of Custance....
The Good Parson....
Lines Written on his Death Bed.
JOHN GOWER......
The Envious Man and the Miser
SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE....
A Mohammedan's Lecture on Christian Vices
LECTURE THE THIRD.
CAUSES OF THE DEARTH IN LITERATURE THAT FOLLOWED THE AGE OF EDWARD
THE THIRD.......
THE FORMATION OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND.......
SCOTTISH POETS.....
JOHN BARBOUR...
Apostrophe to Freedom.....
Death of Sir Henry De Bohun..
ANDREW WYNTOUN....
Interview of St. Serf with Sathanas
BLIND HARRY.
The Death of Wallace....
JAMES THE FIRST....
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The first sight of Lady Jane Beaufort, as seen from Windsor Castle... 67
ROBERT HENRYSON......
The Building of the Tower of Babel, and the Confusion of Tongues.. 80
THE BALLAD OF SIR PATRICK SPENS......
The Lover's Lute can not be blamed, though it sing of his Lady's un-
kindness...
91
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The re-cured Lover exulteth in his Freedom, and voweth to remain free
until Death...
92
Scene in the Council-Room of the Protector Gloucester.
EDWARD HALL.....
SIR THOMAS MORE.........
A Letter to his Wife....
Character of Richard III.
ALEXANDER BARCLAY....
JOHN FISCHER..
Portraiture of the Countess of Richmond's Devotions.
SIR THOMAS ELYOT....
Passages from the Castle of Health
HUGH LATIMER......
Hasty Judgment.........
The Shepherds of Bethlehem.
HN BALE......
Death of Lord Cobham..
109
Henry the Eighth at the House of Cardinal Wolsey.
LORD BERNERS...
The Battle of Cressy......
JOHN BELLENDEN..
SIR JOHN CHEKE......
Remonstrance with Levellers.
THOMAS WILSON..
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137
The Necessity of learning more than one Language...
Qualifications of a Historian...
141
Passages from the Country's Recreations..
The Passionate Shepherd to his love, by Marlow.
The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd..
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