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On the Genius of Shakspeare, a School Exercise
Abradates and Panthea, a School Exercise

Letter to his Sister Jane

Lines written before he went abroad

On leaving England for the South of Europe
Eliza's Urn

Lines written in 1812

Traveller, whence comest thou?

The Sabbath

165

A Fragment

204

CONTENTS.

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On the comparative Merits of Private and Public Edu-

cation

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Thoughts on the proposed Improvement of Female

Education

Strictures on a Review of the Family Shakspeare

Extracts from a Review of the Tableau de la Littera-

ture pendant le dix-huitième Siècle

242

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