| Abbreviations |
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| Introduction |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Chronology |
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| Note on the Text |
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| POETRY |
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1 | (5) |
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Aeschylus: Prometheus Desmotes |
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6 | (1) |
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7 | (4) |
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11 | (1) |
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A fragment of anything you like |
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11 | (1) |
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11 | (4) |
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Winter with the Gulf Stream |
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15 | (1) |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (3) |
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`She schools the flighty pupils of her eyes' |
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21 | (1) |
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21 | (1) |
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A Soliloquy of One of the Spies left in the Wilderness |
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21 | (2) |
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23 | (1) |
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`During the eastering of untainted morns,' |
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24 | (1) |
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`---Hill, / Heaven and every field, are still' |
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24 | (1) |
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`Distance / Dappled with diminish'd trees' |
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25 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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25 | (1) |
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26 | (1) |
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`He hath abolished the old drouth,' |
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27 | (1) |
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27 | (1) |
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`I must hunt down the prize' |
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28 | (1) |
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`Why should their foolish bands, their hopeless hearses' |
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28 | (1) |
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`Why if it be so, for the dismal morn' |
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28 | (1) |
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`Or else their cooings came from bays of trees,' |
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29 | (1) |
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`It was a hard thing to undo this knot.' |
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29 | (1) |
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`Glimmer'd along the square-cut steep.' |
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29 | (1) |
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`Late I fell in the ecstacy' |
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30 | (1) |
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`Think of an opening page illumined' |
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30 | (1) |
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`Miss Story's character! too much you ask,' |
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30 | (1) |
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`Her prime of life---cut down too soon' |
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31 | (1) |
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`Did Helen steal my love from me?' |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (1) |
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`Like shuttles fleet the clouds, and after' |
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32 | (1) |
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32 | (2) |
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34 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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`---Yes for a time they held as well' |
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35 | (1) |
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Fragments of Floris in Italy |
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36 | (4) |
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39 | (1) |
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They came/Next to meadows |
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40 | (1) |
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`Dewy fields in the morning under the sun' |
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40 | (1) |
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`---I am like a slip of comet,' |
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40 | (1) |
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`No, they are come; their horn is lifted up;' |
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41 | (1) |
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`Now I am minded to take pipe in hind' |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (4) |
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`The cold whip-adder unespied' |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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For a Picture of Saint Dorothea |
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48 | (1) |
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`Proved Etherege prudish, selfish, hypocrite, heartless,' |
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48 | (1) |
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49 | (2) |
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`All as that moth call'd Underwing, alighted,' |
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51 | (1) |
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51 | (5) |
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`Tomorrow meet you? O not tomorrow' |
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56 | (1) |
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Fragment of Stephen and Barberie |
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56 | (1) |
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`Boughs being pruned, birds preened, show more fair;' |
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57 | (1) |
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`A silver scarce-call-silver gloss' |
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57 | (1) |
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`I hear a noise of waters drawn away,' |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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`When eyes that cast about the heights of heaven' |
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58 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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60 | (1) |
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`From any hedgerow, any copse,' |
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61 | (1) |
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`O Death, Death, He is come.' |
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61 | (1) |
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`A basket broad of woven white rods' |
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61 | (1) |
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61 | (1) |
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`Love me as I lone thee. O double sweet!' |
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62 | (1) |
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62 | (1) |
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`Where art thou friend, whom I shall never see,' |
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63 | (1) |
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`Bellisle! that is a fabling name, but we' |
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63 | (1) |
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``Confirmed beauty will not bear a stress;---' |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (1) |
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The Alchemist in the City |
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65 | (2) |
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`But what indeed is ask'd of me?' |
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67 | (1) |
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`Myself unholy, from myself unholy' |
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67 | (1) |
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68 | (1) |
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`See how Spring opens with disabling cold,' |
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68 | (1) |
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Continuation of R. Garnett's Nix |
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69 | (1) |
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`A noise of falls I am possessed by' |
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70 | (1) |
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`O what a silence is this wilderness!' |
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70 | (1) |
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`Mothers are doubtless happier for their babes' |
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71 | (1) |
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71 | (1) |
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Fragments of Castara Victrix |
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72 | (2) |
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`My prayers must meet a brazen heaven' |
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74 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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`Let me be to Thee as the circling bird,' |
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75 | (1) |
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76 | (1) |
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76 | (1) |
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`Moonless darkness stands between.' |
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77 | (1) |
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`The earth and heaven, so little known,' |
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77 | (1) |
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78 | (1) |
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`In the staring darkness' |
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78 | (1) |
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`The stars were packed so close that night' |
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79 | (1) |
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79 | (1) |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (2) |
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83 | (1) |
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Lines for a Picture of St. Dorothea |
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84 | (1) |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (1) |
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88 | (1) |
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Elegiacs: Tristi tu, memini |
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88 | (1) |
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`Alget honos frondum silvis dependitus, alget' |
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88 | (1) |
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`Quo rubeant dulcesve rosae vel pomifer aestas' |
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88 | (1) |
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Elegiacs: after The Convent Threshold |
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89 | (1) |
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St. Dorothea (lines for a picture) |
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90 | (2) |
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`Not kind! to freeze me with forecast,' |
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92 | (1) |
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Horace: Persicos odi, puer, apparatus |
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92 | (1) |
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Horace: Odi profanum volgus et arceo |
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92 | (2) |
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94 | (1) |
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95 | (1) |
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95 | (2) |
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`Haec te jubent salvere, quod possunt, loca' |
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97 | (1) |
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98 | (1) |
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98 | (2) |
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100 | (1) |
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100 | (2) |
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`Quique haec membra malis vis esse obnoxia multis' |
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102 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (1) |
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Fragments on St. Winefred |
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`Iam si rite sequor prisci vestigia facti' |
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103 | (1) |
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`Quin etiam nostros non aspernata labores' |
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103 | (1) |
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`Atque tribus primum quod flumen fontibus exit' |
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103 | (1) |
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`Miror surgentem per puram Oriona noctem,' |
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104 | (1) |
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S. Thomae Aquinatis Rhythmus |
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104 | (2) |
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106 | (4) |
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The Wreck of the Deutschland |
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110 | (9) |
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119 | (1) |
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120 | (1) |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (1) |
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123 | (2) |
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Ochenaid Sant Francis Xavier |
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125 | (1) |
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125 | (2) |
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`Hope holds to Christ the mind's own mirror out' |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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`The dark-out Lucifer detesting this' |
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129 | (1) |
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`As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;' |
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129 | (1) |
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Ad Rev. Patrem Fratrem Thomam Burke O.P. |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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In the Valley of the Elwy |
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131 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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133 | (1) |
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`To him who ever thought with love of me' |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (4) |
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139 | (1) |
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`O where is it, the wilderness,' |
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140 | (1) |
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140 | (1) |
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`The furl of fresh-leaved dogrose down' |
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141 | (1) |
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`He mightbe slow and something feckless first,' |
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141 | (1) |
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`What being in rank-old nature should earlier have that breath been' |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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`How all is one way wrought!' (On a Piece of Music) |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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The Bugler's First Communion |
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146 | (2) |
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148 | (1) |
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Morning, Midday, and Evening Sacrifice |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (1) |
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150 | (1) |
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150 | (1) |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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153 | (2) |
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The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo |
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155 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe |
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158 | (3) |
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`The times are nightfall, look, their light grows less;' |
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161 | (1) |
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161 | (5) |
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`To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life' |
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166 | (1) |
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`I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.' |
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166 | (1) |
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`Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail' |
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167 | (1) |
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`No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,' |
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167 | (1) |
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To what serves Mortal Beauty? |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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`Thee, God, I come from, to thee go,' |
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169 | (1) |
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`Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray,' |
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170 | (1) |
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`My own heart let me more have pity on; let' |
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170 | (1) |
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171 | (1) |
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Songs from Shakespeare, in Latin and Greek |
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171 | (3) |
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Incomplete Latin version of `In all things beautiful' |
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174 | (1) |
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Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves |
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175 | (1) |
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On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People |
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176 | (1) |
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177 | (1) |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (1) |
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179 | (1) |
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`The sea took pity: it interposed with doom:' |
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180 | (1) |
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That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection |
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180 | (1) |
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`What shall I do for the land that bred me,' |
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181 | (1) |
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In honour of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez |
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182 | (1) |
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`Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend' |
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183 | (1) |
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`The shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning, owns' |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
| PROSE |
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185 | (122) |
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Journal From Hopkins's notes written |
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while an undergraduate at Oxford (1863--7) |
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191 | (1) |
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192 | (1) |
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during a holiday in Switzerland (1868) |
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193 | (4) |
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while at the Novitiate (1869-0) |
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197 | (5) |
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202 | (16) |
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at Roehampton, London (1873-) |
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218 | (3) |
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at St Beuno's, Wales (187) |
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221 | (2) |
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to his father (16 Oct [1866]) |
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223 | (3) |
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to his mother (Christmas Eve, 1875) |
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226 | (1) |
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from a letter to Robert Bridges (21 Aug. 1877) |
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227 | (2) |
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to Robert Bridges (2 April I878) |
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229 | (1) |
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from a letter to Robert Bridges (13 May 1878) |
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230 | (2) |
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to Robert Bridges (30 May 1878) |
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232 | (2) |
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postcard to Robert Bridges (June 1878) |
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234 | (1) |
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to Robert Bridges (15 Feb. 1879) |
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234 | (1) |
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to Robert Bridges (26 May 1879) |
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235 | (2) |
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from a letter to Robert Bridges (14 Aug. 1879) |
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237 | (3) |
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from a letter to Robert Bridges (25 Oct. 1879) |
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240 | (1) |
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from a letter to R. W. Dixon (22 Dec. 1880) |
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241 | (3) |
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from a letter to Robert Bridges (3 April 1881) |
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244 | (1) |
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to Robert Bridges (16 Sept. 1881) |
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245 | (1) |
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from a letter to R. W. Dixon (29 Oct. 1881) |
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246 | (4) |
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from a letter to R. W. Dixon (1 Dec. 1881) |
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250 | (4) |
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to Robert Bridges (18 Oct. 1882) |
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254 | (3) |
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from a letter to Robert Bridges (4 Jan. 1883) |
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257 | (2) |
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to Robert Bridges (7 March 1884) |
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259 | (1) |
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to Robert Bridges (21 Aug. 1884) |
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260 | (2) |
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to his sister, Kate Hopkins (9 Dec. 1884) |
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262 | (1) |
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to Robert Bridges (1 Sept. 1885) |
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263 | (1) |
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from a letter to Robert Bridges (13 Oct. 1886) |
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264 | (1) |
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from a letter to Robert Bridges (28 Oct. 1886) |
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265 | (1) |
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from a letter to Robert Bridges (7 Feb. 1887) |
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266 | (2) |
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from a letter to Robert Bridges (30 July 1887) |
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268 | (2) |
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from a letter to Robert Bridges (12 Jan. 1888) |
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270 | (1) |
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to Robert Bridges (29 April 1889) |
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271 | (4) |
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Sermons and Devotional Writings |
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from a sermon for 5 Oct. 1879 (Bedford Leigh) `on the Rosary' |
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275 | (1) |
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from a sermon for 23 Nov. 1879 (Bedford Leigh) on Luke 2: 33 |
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275 | (3) |
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from a sermon for 25 Oct. 1880 `on Divine Providence and the Guardian Angels' |
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278 | (3) |
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Notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Principle or Foundation |
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281 | (2) |
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Notes on Suarez' De Mysteriis Vitae Christi |
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283 | (4) |
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Notes on the Creation and Redemption |
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287 | (3) |
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Further notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Principle or Foundation |
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290 | (2) |
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Notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Meditation on Hell |
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292 | (3) |
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Notes on the Spiritual Exercises: the Meditation on Death |
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295 | (6) |
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Notes written during a retreat at Beaumont (3--10 Sept. 1883) |
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301 | (1) |
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Notes written during a retreat at St Stanislaus' College, Tullabeg (1--6 Jan. 1888) |
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302 | (5) |
| Notes |
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307 | (94) |
| Further Reading |
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401 | (4) |
| Appendix A: The Convent Threshold |
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405 | (4) |
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| Appendix B: The Nix |
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409 | (2) |
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| Appendix C: Consule Jones |
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411 | (6) |
| Index of Short Titles and First Lines |
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417 | (10) |
| Index to Prose |
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