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CONTENTS OF VOLUME THE FIRST.
LECTURE THE FIRST.
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THE CELTIC LANGUAGE.......
THE ORIGIN AND FORMATION OF THE ANGLO-SAXON.
OSSIAN, THE CELTIC POET...
His Address to the Sun..
His Last Song..
GILDAS.....
NENNIUS..
ST. COLUMBANUS.
CEDMON...
Satan's Speech.
JOHN OF BEVERLY..
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Lines Written on his Death Bed..
JOHN GOWER.....
The Envious Man and the Miser.
SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE...
A Mohammedan's Lecture on Christian Vices...
LECTURE THE THIRD.
CAUSES OF THE DEARTH IN LITERATURE THAT FOLLOWED THE AGE OF EDWARD
THE THIRD....
THE FORMATION OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE LOWLANDS OF SCOTLAND..
SCOTTISH POETS....
JOHN BARBOUR........
Apostrophe to Freedom....
Death of Sir Henry De Bohun...
ANDREW WYNTOUN.
Interview of St. Serf with Sathanas..
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The first sight of Lady Jane Beaufort, as seen from Windsor Castle... 67
The Building of the Tower of Babel, and the Confusion of Tongues.. 80
THE BALLAD OF SIR PATRICK SPENS...
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The Lover's Lute can not be blamed, though it sing of his Lady's un-
kindness.....
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The re-cured Lover exulteth in his Freedom, and voweth to remain free
until Death........
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Scene in the Council-Room of the Protector Gloucester..
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Henry the Eighth at the House of Cardinal Wolsey..
The Necessity of learning more than one Language.. Qualifications of a Historian....
LECTURE THE SEVENTH.
Passages from the Country's Recreations....
The Passionate Shepherd to his love, by Marlow....
The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd...
NICHOLAS BRETON....
Farewell to Town..
HENRY CONSTABLE....
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