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VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL, THE. Voyage to Vinland, The. Washers of the Shroud, The. What Mr. Robinson thinks. What Rabbi Jehosha said. Whittier, To. Wild, H.G., On an Autumn Sketch of. Wind-Harp, The. Winlock, Joseph. Winter-Evening Hymn to my Fire, A. With a Copy of Aucassin and Nicolete. With a Pair of Gloves lost in a Wager. With a Pressed Flower. With a Seashell. With an Armchair. Without and Within. Wordsworth's Sonnets in Defence of Capital Punishment, On reading. Wyman, Jeffries. Youthful Experiment in English Hexameters, A. Yussouf. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: The wise Scandinavians probably called their bards by the queer-looking title of Scald in a delicate way, as it were, just to hint to the world the hot water they always get into.] [Footnote 2: To demonstrate quickly and easily how per- -versely absurd 'tis to sound this name _Cowper_, As people in general call him named _super_, I remark that he rhymes it himself with horse-trooper.] [Footnote 3: (If you call Snooks an owl, he will show by his looks That he's morally certain you're jealous of Snooks.)] [Footnote 4:(Cuts rightly called wooden, as all must admit.)] [Footnote 5: That is in most cases we do, but not all, Past a doubt, there are men who are innately small, Such as Blank, who, without being 'minished a tittle, Might stand for a type of the Absolute Little.] [Footnote 6: (And at this just conclusion will surely arrive, That the goodness of earth is more dead than alive.)] [Footnote 7: Not forgetting their tea and their toast, though, the while.] [Footnote 8: Turn back now to page--goodness only knows what, And take a fresh hold on the thread of my plot.] [Footnote 9: The reader curious in such matters may refer (if he can find them) to _A sermon preached on the Anniversary of the Dark Day, An Artillery Election Sermon, A Discourse on the Late Eclipse, Dorcas, A Funeral Sermon on the Death of Madam Submit Tidd, Relict of the late Experience Tidd, Esq., &c., &c._] [Footnote 10: Aut insanit, aut versos facit. --H.W.] [Footnote 11: In relation to this expression, I cannot but think that Mr. Biglow has been too hasty in attributing it to me. Though Time be a comparatively innocent personage to swear by, and though Longinus in his discourse [Greek: Peri 'Upsous] have commended timely oaths as not only a useful but sublime figure of speech, yet I have always kept my lips free from that abomination. _Odi
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