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Battle of Brunanburh Battle of the Books Baxter, Richard Beaumont, Francis (b[=o]'mont) Becket Bede; his history; his account of Cædmon Bells and Pomegranates Benefit of clergy Beowulf (b[=a]'[=o]-wulf), the poem; history; poetical form; manuscript of Beowulf's Mount Bibliographies, study of literature; Anglo-Saxon Period; Norman; Chaucer; Revival of Learning; Elizabethan; Puritan; Restoration; Eighteenth century; Romanticism; Victorian; general Bickerstaff Almanac Biographia Literaria Blackmore, Richard Blake, William; life; works Blank verse Blessed Damozel Blot in the 'Scutcheon, A Boethius (b[=o]-[=e]'thi-us) Boileau (bwa-l[=o]'), French critic Boke of the Duchesse Book of Martyrs Borough, The Boswell, James.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Learning Elizabethan Puritan Restoration Eighteenth
Castell of Perseverance Castle of Indolence Cata Cavalier poets Caxton; specimen of printing Celtic legends Chanson de Gestes Chanson de Roland Chapman, George; his Homer ; Keats's sonnet on Chatterton, Thomas Chaucer, how to read; life; works; form of his poetry; melody; compared with Spenser Chaucer, Age of: history; writers; summary; selections for reading; bibliography; questions on; chronology Chester plays Cheyne Row Childe Harold Child's Garden of Verses Chocilaicus (k[=o]-kil-[=a]'[=i]-cus) Christ, The , of Cynewulf Christabel Christian Year Christmas Carol, A Christ's Hospital, London Chronicle, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle plays Chronicles, riming Chronology: Anglo-Saxon Period; Norman-French; Age of Chaucer; Revival of Learning; Elizabethan; Puritan; Restoration; Eighteenth Century; Romanticism; Victorian Citizen of the World Clarissa Classic and classicism Classic influence on the drama Cloister and the Hearth Clough, Arthur Hugh Cockaygne, Land of (k[=o]-k[=a]n') Coleridge; life; works; critiqal writings Collier, Jeremy Collins, William Comedy, definition; first English; of the court Complete Angler, The Comus, Masque of Conciliation with America , Burke's speech Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Consolations of Philosophy Cotter's Saturday Night Couplet, the Court comedies Covenant of 1643 Coventry plays Cowley, Abraham Cowper, William; life; works Crabbe, George Cranford Crashaw, Richard Critic, meaning of Critical writing, Dryden; Coleridge; in Age of Romanticism; in Victorian Age Criticism, Arnold's definition Cross, John Walter Crown of Wild Olive Culture and Anarchy Curse of Jfehama (k[=e]-hä'mä)
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Learning Elizabethan Puritan Restoration Eighteenth
Restoration Period: history; literary characteristics; writers; summary; selections for reading; bibliography; questions; chronology Revival of Learning Period: history; literature; summary; selections for reading; bibliography; questions; chronology Revolt of Islam Revolution, French; of 1688; age of Richardson, Samuel; novels of Rights of Man Rime of the Ancient Alariner Rime Royal Ring and the Book, The Robin Hood Robinson Crusoe Roderick Roderick Random Romance; Greek Romances Romance languages Romance of the Rose Romantic comedy and tragedy Romantic enthusiasm Romantic poetry Romanticism, Age of; history; literary characteristics; poets; prose writers; summary; selections for reading; bibliography; questions; chronology Romanticism, meaning Romola Rosalynde Rossetti, Christina (ros-set't[=e]) Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rowley Papers Royal Society Runes Ruskin; life; works; characteristics; message Sackville, Thomas St. Catherine, Play of St. George's Guild Saints' Everlasting Rest Samson Agonistes (ag-o-nis't[=e]z) Sartor Resartus (sar'tor re-sar'tus) Satire; of Swift; of Thackeray Saxon. See Anglo-Saxon School of Shooting Science, in Victorian Age Scop, or poet (skop) Scott, Walter; life; poetry; novels; criticism of Jane Austen Scottish Chiefs Scyld (skild), story of Sea, names of, in Anglo-Saxon, 25 Seafarer, The Seasons, The Selections for reading: Anglo-Saxon period; Norman; Chaucer; Revival of Learning; Elizabethan; Puritan; Restoration; Eighteenth Century; Romanticism; Victorian Sentimental Journey Sesame and Lilies (ses'a-m[=e]) Shakespeare; life; works; four periods; sources of plays; classification of plays; doubtful plays; poems; place and influence She Stoops to Conquer Shelley; life; works; compared with Wordsworth Shepherds' Book Shepherd's Calendar Shirley, James Shoemaker's Holiday, The Short View of the English Stage Sidney, Philip Sigurd the Volsung Silas Marner Silent Woman, The Sir Charles Grandison Skelton, John Sketches by Boz Smollett, Tobias Social development in eighteenth century Sohrab and Rustum (soo'rhab, or s[=o]'hrab) Songs of Innocence , and Songs of Experience Sonnet, introduction of Sonnets , of Shakespeare; of Milton Sonnets from the Portuguese Southey; works Spanish Gypsy Spanish Tragedy Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Spectator, The Spenser; life; works; characteristics; compared with Chaucer Spenserian poets Spenserian stanza Stage, in early plays; Elizabethan Steele, Richard Stephen, Leslie Sterne, Lawrence Stevenson, Robert Louis Style, a test of literature Suckling, John Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of Swan, The Swift; life; works; satire; characteristics Swinburne Sylva Symonds, John Addington Tabard Inn Tale of a Tub Tale of Two Cities Tales from Shakespeare Tales in Verse Tales of the Hall Tam o'
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Lasts ever past recall Earth
All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure: What entered into thee, 160 That was, is, and shall be: Time's wheel runs back or stops;
— from Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

Lind Edward Porto Rican estate
Lincoln, Abraham, M.'s attitude, ~2~, 424, 429 M. leaves no reference to assassination, 437 Lind, Charles, M.'s grandson, ~2~, 219 art study at Paris, 448 Lind, Edward, Porto Rican estate, ~2~, 399 from M. (1867) on Paris Exposition, 453 Lind, Mrs. Henry, and M. at Hamburg, ~2~, 353 Lind, Susan W. (Morse), M.'s portrait, ~1~, 435 at New York (1844), ~2~, 219 from M. (1845) on Congress and purchase of telegraph, domestic happiness, 244 on dinner at Russian minister's, 245 (1845) on experiences on Continent, 250-254, 256 M.'s visit to (1858), 397-400, 406 from M. (1865) on proposed statue, 442 (1871) on unveiling of statue, 492 See also Morse, Susan W. Liverpool, M. at (1811), ~1~, 34-36 (1829), docks, 303 Liverpool (King's) Arms Inn, ~1~, 34, 302 Livingston, Cambridge, letters with M. (1846) on coat of arms and motto, ~2~, 258 at M.'s funeral, 511 Locust Grove, M.'s home at Poughkeepsie, ~2~, 269, 280, 284, 286, 296, 464 M.'s farewell, 496 London, M. on cries (1811), ~1~, 48 on custom of knocking, 48 on crowds, 49 on Vauxhall, 50-52 on St. Bartholomew's Fair, 52 entrée of Louis XVIII (1814), 136-140 fête of Allies, 142-147 approach (1829), 307 M. at (1829), 308, 309 (1845), ~2~, 249 (1856), 349-351, 366, 368, 369 (1857), 373 M. on growth (1832), ~1~, 432 London Globe , on M.'s Dying Hercules, ~1~, 106 Lord, Daniel, to M. (1847) on infringements, ~2~, 272 Lord, Nathan, and Civil War, ~2~, 416 Loring, G.B., and M.'s farewell message to telegraph, ~2~, 485 Lottery, M.'s attitude, ~1~, 46, 130, 131 Roman, 354 Louis XVIII of France, entrée into London (1814), ~1~, 136-140 appearance, 139 Louis Philippe, and M.'s telegraph, ~2~, 103, 112, 123 Louisville Courier-Journal , tribute to M., ~2~, 510 Louvre, M. on, ~1~, 315 M.'s painting of interior, 421, 422, 426, ~2~, 27 Lovering, ——, from M. (1840) on daguerreotype material, anecdote, ~2~, 155 Low, A.A., banquet to M., ~2~, 467, 472 Lowber, R.W., and Atlantic cable, ~2~, 343 Lowell, ——, minister at Bristol, Eng. (1814), ~1~, 121 Loyalty, M. on meaning in America, ~2~, 428 Ludlow, H.G., from M. (c. 1862) on Civil War, ~2~, 415 Lydia , transatlantic ship (1811), ~1~, 33 Lyons, M. at (1830), ~1~, 323 Macaulay, Zachary, invitation to M. (1812), ~1~, 79 and M., 135 McClellan, G.B., M. and presidential candidacy, ~2~, 427, 429-431 McClelland, Robert, and Coffin, ~2~, 164 McCormick, C.H., and reaper, ~2~, 501 McFarland, Asa, and M., ~1~, 201, 202, 217 McGowan, Samuel, on telegraph in Australia, ~2~, 321 McIlvaine, C.P., and Civil War, ~2~, 416 Madison, James, and War of 1812, ~1~, 66 Maggiore, Lago, M. at (1831), ~1~, 400 Magnet, Henry and, of M.'s telegraph, ~2~, 66-57 See also Henry.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Lasts ever past recall Earth
All that is, at all, Lasts ever, past recall; Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure: 160 What entered into thee, That was, is, and shall be: Time's wheel runs back or stops:
— from Browning's Shorter Poems by Robert Browning


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