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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone asso- ciated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...n these, our times, the Artisan hath his voice as well as the Monarch. The people To-Day is King, and we 5 Burlesques chronicle his woes, as They of ... ...e Vespasian’s Eagles, and in flame, and death, and 16 Thackeray struggle, Jerusalem agonized and died. . . . Y es, the Jewish city is lost to Jewish ... ... earth at the feet of General Picton and Sir Lowry Cole, who were at their posts at the head of the storming-parties, nine hundred and ninety nine gun... ...g commis-voyageur on the roof of the rum- bling diligence; the rapid malle-poste thundering over the chaussee at twelve miles an hour—pass the ground ... ...as was a twelvemonth, I hear nought of her; my letters are unanswered. The postman hath traversed our camp every day, and never brought me a billet. H... ...r parchment, and sewed on the bag. It first ran “Count Ludwig de Hombourg, Jerusalem;” but the name of the Holy City had 203 Burlesques been dashed o...

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