Lectures on the Harvard Classics

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William Allan Neilson
P. F. Collier & Son, 1914 - Arts - 490 pages
Sixty introductory lectures, five each on history, poetry, natural science, philosophy, biography, prose fiction, criticism and the essay, education, political science, drama, voyages and travel, and religion.

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Contents

I
7
II
23
III
30
IV
36
V
41
VI
48
VII
66
VIII
71
XXXII
239
XXXIII
254
XXXIV
259
XXXV
266
XXXVI
271
XXXVII
276
XXXVIII
292
XXXIX
297

IX
76
X
81
XI
87
XII
105
XIII
110
XIV
115
XV
120
XVI
125
XVII
143
XVIII
148
XIX
153
XX
158
XXI
163
XXIII
181
XXIV
186
XXV
191
XXVI
196
XXVII
201
XXVIII
219
XXIX
224
XXX
230
XXXI
235
XL
304
XLI
309
XLII
314
XLIII
332
XLIV
337
XLV
342
XLVI
346
XLVII
346
XLVIII
353
XLIX
358
L
363
LI
368
LII
373
LIV
391
LV
396
LVI
401
LVII
411
LVIII
430
LIX
431
LX
431
LXI
436

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Page 55 - Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;
Page 56 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
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