| Men of Invention and Industry | Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 | en | | Phineas Pett : beginnings of English shipbuilding -- Francis Pettit Smith, practical introducer of the screw propeller -- John Harrison, inventor of the marine chronometer -- John Lombe, introducer of the silk industry into England -- William Murdock, his life and inventions -- Frederick Koenig, inventor of the steam-printing machine -- The Walters of the "Times" : invention of the Walter press -- William Clowes : book-printing by steam -- Charles Bianconi : a lesson of self-help in Ireland -- Industry in Ireland : through Connaught and Ulster to Belfast -- Ship-building in Belfast / by E.J. Harland, engineer and shipbuilder -- Astronomers and students in humble life : a new chapter in the "Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties". | | Inventors -- Biography; Industrial arts -- Biography | 1996-11-01 |
| The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III | | en | | Excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
A Poet Defined, from the Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth
The Arrival of the Master of Ravenswood, from "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Scott
The Death of Meg Merriles, from "Guy Mannering" by Scott
A Vision of Rob Roy, from "Rob Roy" by Scott
Queen Elizabeth and Amy Robsart at Kenilworth, from "Kenilworth" by Scott
The Illness and Death of Lady Scott, from Scott's "Journal"
Does Fortune Favor Fools?, from "A Sailor's Fortune" by Coleridge
The Destiny of the United States, from the "Table Talk" by Coleridge
Nelson's Death at Trafalgar, from the "Life of Nelson" by Southey
The Death of Hofer, by Landor
Napoleon and Pericles, by Landor
Dream Children—A Reverie; Poor Relations; The Origin of Roast Pig; That We Should Rise with the Lark, from the "Essays of Elia" by Lamb
Hamlet, from the "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" by Hazlitt
Dreams of an Opium-Eater, from the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by de Quincey
Joan of Arc, from the "Biographical and Historical Essays" by de Quincey
Charles Lamb, from the "Literary Reminiscences" by de Quincey
Of His Mother's Treatment of Him, letter by Lord Byron
To His Wife after the Separation, letter by Lord Byron
To Sir Walter Scott, letter by Lord Byron
Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects, from the "Reply to Bowles" by Lord Byron
In Defense of Poetry, by Shelley
The Baths of Caracalla, from letter by Shelley
The ruins of Pompeii, from letter by Shelley
The Mutilation of the Hermæ; If Alexander Had Lived, from the "History of Greece" by Grote
Charlotte Corday, from the "History of the French Revolution" by Carlyle
The Blessedness of Work, from "Past and Present" by Carlyle
Cromwell, from "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History" by Carlyle
In Praise of Those Who Toil, from "Sart | | | 2007-07-30 |