et Callirrhoe; Helena ad Pudoris Aram.
19, 20. Imaginary Conversations: Oliver Cromwell and Walter Noble;
AEschines and Phocion; Kosciusko and Poniatowski; Milton and Marvell;
Roger Ascham and Lady Jane Grey; Tiberius and Vipsania.
21, 22, 23. Hellenics: To Corinth.
24. Hellenics: Regeneration.
25. The Hamadryad; Acon and Rhodope.
26. The Shades of Agamemnon and Iphigeneia.
27. Enallos and Cymodameia.
28. The Children of Venus.
29. Cupid and Pan.
30. The Death of Clytemnestra; The Madness of Orestes; The Prayer of
Orestes.
32. The Last of Ulysses.
33. Imaginary Conversations. Lady Lisle and Elizabeth Gaunt.
35. _Pro monumento super milites regio jussu interemptos._
36. The Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare.
37. Pericles and Aspasia.
38. The Pentameron.
39. Imaginary Conversations: Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa.
40. Marcellus and Hannibal: P. Scipio AEmilianus, Polybius, and Panaetius.
41. Alexander and Priest of Ammon: Bonaparte and the President of the
Senate.
42. The Empress Catherine and Princess Dashkoff.
43. Vittoria Colonna and Michel-Angelo Buonarroti.
44. Andrea of Hungary, Giovanna of Naples, Fra Rupert; a Trilogy: Five
Scenes (Beatrice Cenci).
45. Luther's Parents: The Death of Hofer: (_Imaginary Conversations_)
Andrew Hofer, Count Metternich, and the Emperor Francis; Judge Wolfgang
and Henry of Melchthal: The Coronation. Tyrannicide (_The Last Fruit off
an Old Tree_): Walter Tyrrel and William Rufus: Henry VIII. and Anne
Boleyn.
46. Essex and Spenser (_Imaginary Conversations_): Essex and Bacon:
Antony and Octavius (_Scenes for the Study_).
47. Critical Essays on Theocritus and Catullus.
48, 49. Heroic Idyls; Homer, Laertes, and Agatha.
'J'en passe, et des meilleurs.' But who can enumerate all or
half our obligations to the illimitable and inexhaustible
genius of the great man whose life and whose labour lasted
even from the generation of our fathers' fathers to our own?
Hardly any reader can feel, I think, so deeply as I feel the
inadequacy of my poor praise and too imperfect gratitude to
the majestic subject of their attempted expression; but
'such as I had have I given him.'
GRAND CHORUS OF BIRDS
FROM
ARISTOPHANES
_Attempted in English verse after the original metre._
I was allured into the audacity of this experiment by consideration of a
fact which hitherto does not
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