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Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton Waller Barrett
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UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME.
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I.
FAVORITE AUTHORS:
A COMPANION-BOOK OF PROSE AND POETRY.
Illustrated with numerous steel engravings.
II.
HOUSEHOLD FRIENDS FOR EVERY
SEASON.
Illustrated with numerous steel engravings.
TICKNOR AND FIELDS, Publishers.
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Good Company
FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR.
“Good company...... well approved in all.”
Shakespeare.
BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.
1866.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by
TICKNOR AND FIELDS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,
Cambridge.
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CONTENTS.
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John G. Whittier: Yankee Gypsies 1
James Russell Lowell: Dara 16
Thomas Carlyle: Cromwell 19
T. Westwood: Little Bell 86
Rose Terry: The Mormon's Wife 89
John Gibson Lockhart: Beyond 109
John Milton: Autobiographical Passages 110
William Allingham: Wakening 117
Edmund Lodge: John Graham 118
W. Edmondstoune Aytoun: The Burial-March of
Dundee 128
Goethe: Mignon as an Angel 134
Mrs. Gaskell: The Cage at Cranford 136
Edmund Spenser: Verses on Sir Philip Sidney 150
George Ticknor: Prescott's Infirmity of Sight 152
Dante: Beatrice 168
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Robert Southey: A Love Story 170
Bayard Taylor: The Mystic Summer 236
Mrs. Jameson: Two of the Old Masters 239
Frederick Tennyson: The Poet's Heart 261
Giorgio Vasari: Character of Fra Angelico 265
William Blake: Songs 267
J. Hain Friswell: Upon Growing Old 277
R. W. Emerson: The Titmouse 284
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Little Pansie 288
H. W. Longfellow: Palingenesis 305
Sir Walter Scott: My Childhood 308
Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 [1866], Good company for every day in the year (Ticknor and Fields, Boston) [word count] [eaf559T].