Title: Death of the Queen Dowager, a poem.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Boyd, Henry; 1850. 24 p.; 8 . 11645.ff.12.(9.)

To Which Is Added, A Specimen Of A New Translation Of The Orlando Furioso Of Ariosto.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1805 Original Publisher: Longman Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: WOODMAN'S TALE, CANTO IV. argument. Example's weight Eumolpus tries, To warn of coming guile; But heaven the due success denies, The sUanger mounts the pile. But from the central hills that crown the isle With woody height, by seamen seen afar, Her genius mark'd the loud aerial toil, Of fighting winds and elemental war; He saw old Ocean burst th' eternal bar, And sweep with foamy pride the trembling shore, He saw the barque impell'd by luckless star, With canvass rent to rags, and lab'ring oar, That ty the fated beach the seeming stranger bore. He saw the Demon hide his deadly freight, In seeming show of royalty distrcst: He saw the nation verging to its fate, And hasted down, impetuous, to arrest The fraudful rite, while glanc'd from east to w Portentous lightnings own'd the coming power; Dark gathering clouds the welkin dim invest, With armed gust surcharg'd and haily shower, And o'er the solemn pile the storm was seen to lour. " Unusual horror seiz'd the list'ning crowd, And for a time restrain'd the sanguine rite, With sudden gust the rocking temple bow'd, And o'er th' assembly hung unusual night; While ever and anon a livid light Around the trembling crew excursive play'd, Th' assistants sprung aloof, with pale affright The startled priest forgot his bloody trade, And deem'd some god averse the pious rite survey'd. " First Mnemon felt an energy of heaven, (Who still the rite withstood.) The hoary sage Began: ' Have then the pow'rs of vengeance giv'n ' A welcome pause, a moment to assuage ' Your hot mistemper'd zeal and he...

To Which Is Added, A Specimen Of A New Translation Of The Orlando Furioso Of Ariosto.

To Which Is Added, A Specimen Of A New Translation Of The Orlando Furioso Of Ariosto.

Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text, possible missing pages, missing text and other issues beyond our control.