O .. .. IN WEEKLY VOLUMES, price 3d. : or in Clo h, ed. A SELECTION OF THE MOST POPULAR VOLUMES IN CASSELL'S NATIONAL LIBRARY. The following are amongst those already published, and a full list will be sent by the Publishers post free on application. The Haunted Man .. DICKENS, Heroes and Hero-Worship CARLYLE. The Complete Angier ISAAC WALTON. Friends in Council SIR A. HELPS. The Autobiography of BE JAMIN FRANKLIN. The Riyals, and The School for Scandal SHERIDAN. Warren Hastings MACAULAY. The Angel in the House COVENTRY PATMORE The Life of Nelson .. SOUTHEY. A Deteuce of Poesie PHILIP SIDNEY, Paradise Regained JOHN MILTON, A Christmas Carol, and the Chines DICKENS. Childe Harold BYRON Murad the Unlucky EDGEWORTH. My Ten Years' Imprisonment SILVIO PELLICO. Plays GOLDSMITH. Tales from the Decameron BOCCACCIO. Visions of England .. PALGRAVE. Rasselas JOHNSON Paradise Lost Övols, 1. & ïi.). MILTON. Sintram and his Companions, &c. LA Morte FOUQUR. Memorable Thoughts of Socrates XENOPHON Daphnaida, and other Poems.. SPENSER Undine, and The Two Captains LA MOTTE FOUQUE. The Bravo of Venice M. G. LEWIS. The Legends of St. Patrick .. AUBREY DE VERB. Voyages and Travels MAUNDEVILLE. The Castle of Otranto WALPOLE. Lives of Alcibiades, Aristides, &c. PLUTARCH. MARTIN LUTHER. PLUTARCH, COVENTRY PATMORE Sorrows of Werter GOETHE Lives of Butler, Denham, Dryden, &c. SAMUEL JOHNSON. Religio Medici .. SIR T. BROWNE. The North-West Passage RICHARD HAKLUYT. Lives of Addison, Sava e, and swift SAMUEL JOHNSON. Lives of Timoleon, Paulus Æmiliu , &c. PLUTARCH. Wisdom of the Ancients BACON. Earlier Poems.. MILTON. Confessio is of an inquiring Spirit COLERIDGE. Francis Bacon MACAULAY. Lives of Prior, Congrevë, &c. SAMUEL JOHNSON. Shakespeare's Plays :-Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measur, Much Ad about Nothing, Julius Cæsar, Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well that Ends Well, King Henry VIII., King John, A Winter's Tale, The Tempest, As You Like It, Coriolanus, Richard II., King Henry IV. (Part I.), King Henry IV. (Part II.), Merry Wives of Windsor, King Henry V., Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost, King Henry VI, (Part I.), King Henry VI. (Part II.), King Henry VI. (Part III.). The next Volume will be CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, Ludgate Hill, London When, at the age of sixty-eight, Johnson was writing these "Lives of the English Poets," he had caused omissions to be made from the poems of Rochester, and was asked whether he would allow the printers to give all the verse of Prior. Boswell quoted a censure by Lord Hailes of “those impure tales which will be the eternal opprobrium of their ingenious author.” Johnson replied, “Sir, Lord Hailes has forgot. There is nothing in Prior that will excite to lewdness ;” and when Boswell further urged, ho put his questionings aside, and added, “No, sir, Prior is a lady's book. No lady is ashamed to have it standing in her library." Johnson distinguished strongly, as every wise man does, between offence against convention, and offence against morality. In Congreve's plays he recognised the wit but condemned the morals, and in the case of Blackmore the regard for the religious purpose of Blackmore's “The Creation ” gave to Johnson, as to Addison, an undue sense of its literary value, poem on |
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