| Summary: | Nelson's literature readers. Book II Silas Marner's treasure / George Eliot -- The Rhodora / R.W. Emerson -- Butterflies, ants, and spiders of Brazil / Darwin -- The Campagna / W. Beckford -- Rome / Byron -- Vesuvius / P.B. Shelley -- The spirit of delight / Shelley -- Death of Pliny the Elder / Pliny the Younger -- The destruction of Pompeii / Illus. Mag. of Art -- My lady's grave / Emily Brontë -- David Swan / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The battle of Plassey / Macaulay -- On a celebrated event in ancient history / Wordsworth -- The combat / Southey -- Immortality of love / Southey -- Alexander Selkirk / Steele -- Solitude / Byron -- Old London Bridge / George Borrow -- Lavengro's wanderings / George Borrow -- The academy of Lagado / Dean Swift -- Music / Dryden -- The great dismal swamp / Sir Charles Lyell -- The Bermudas / Andrew Marvell -- The young geologist / Hugh Miller -- The sea / T.L. Beddoes -- Tranquillity / Coleridge -- The prisoners / Charles Dickens -- The relief of Leyden / J.L. Motley -- The forsaken merman / Matthew Arnold -- The partition of Spain / Macaulay -- The raven / Edgar Allan Poe -- Praise of the air / Izaak Walton -- Trout-fishing / Izaak Walton -- Songs / Marlowe, Raleigh -- Sports, agriculture, and trade of the middle ages / Hallam -- Sir Patrick Spens / Old ballad -- The Scottish borderers / Sir Walter Scott -- La garde doloureuse / Sir Walter Scott -- Mary Ambree / Old ballad -- Swineherds of the new forest / William Gilpin -- The Battle of Hastings / Palgrave -- A glance at the Witenagemot / Palgrave -- King John of France at Poitiers / Froissart -- Iseult's tale / Matthew Arnold -- Crossing the Alps / Gray -- Chamouni / P.B. Shelley -- Hymn before sunrise in the vale of Chamouni / S.T. Coleridge -- Napoleon / R.W. Emerson -- Escape from the Bastille / De Latude -- L'Allegro / Milton -- Il Penseroso / Milton -- Westminster Abbey / Addison -- The opinions of an old book / Washington Irving -- On Chapman's Homer / Keats -- The temple of fame / Pope -- The corner of a meadow / ...
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