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  • To the Mareschal de Créqui

    Who asked the temper of my Mind, and my Thoughts of all things in my old Age

    In "To the Mareschal de Créqui," Charles de Saint-Évremond expertly weaves together a tapestry of wit, eloquence, and philosophical insight, delivering a series of letters that reflect the complexities of 17th-century French society. The text is notable for its epistolary style, which combines personal anecdote with broader societal reflections, embodying the spirit of the French classical ... Read more

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    by John Donne ...
    The best of John Donne's poemsJohn Donne (1572-1631) was born into a Catholic family and studied law before sailing with Essex to attack Cadiz in 1596. He was appointed secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, the Lord Keeper (later Lord Chancellor), in 1598, but forfeited his worldly prospects when he secretly married Ann More, Lady Egerton's niece, in 1601; he was dismissed by Egerton and briefly ... Read more

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  • Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Mobi Classics)

    by John Locke ...
    Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on education written by the English philosopher John Locke. For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in Britain. It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the eighteenth century, and nearly every European writer on education after Locke, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ... Read more

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  • The Practice of the Presence of God

    The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of Holy Life contain the Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence. ... Read more

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  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    And Select Poems

    A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was published in the collection Lyrical Ballads (1798), which contributed significantly to the advent of modern poetry and the beginnings of British Romance ... Read more

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  • Paradise Regained (Mobi Classics)

    by John Milton ...
    Paradise Regain'd is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological themes. It deals with the subject of the Temptation of Christ. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • The Fable of the Bees

    Or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits

    If you think 18th century economic philosophy is by definition dry and boring, check out Bernard Mandeville's 1714 poem "The Fable of the Bees." It espouses the benefits of selfishness as a way of increasing economic prosperity -- a common enough idea today, but one that was so scandalous at the time of its publication that Mandeville was convicted by a grand jury and widely denounced by the most ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of St. Margaret Mary

    Intimate insights from the saint to whom Our Lord gave the Sacred Heart revelations. Includes Our Lord's own words to her and tells how she sought out suffering for the love for God. A very famous book and one of only six saint's autobiographies in existence. ... Read more

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  • The Holy Magic

    WHICH GOD GAVE UNTO MOSES, AARON, DAVID, SOLOMON, AND OTHER SAINTS, PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS; WHICH TEACHETH THE TRUE DIVINE WISDOM. The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage is a famous grimoire which tells the story of an Egyptian mage named Abramelin or Abra-Melin who teaches a system of magic to Abraham of Worms, a German Jew presumed to have lived from c.1362 - c.1458. The magic ... Read more

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  • Tamerlane & Other Poems

    "Tamerlane" is an epic poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the 1827 collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. That collection, with only 50 copies printed, was not credited with the author's real name but by "A Bostonian." The poem itself follows a Turkic conqueror named Tamerlane. The name is a Latinized version of "Timur Lenk", the 14th century warlord, though the poem is not historically ... Read more

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  • The Fair Jilt : The Amours Of Prince Tarquin And Miranda

    by Aphra Behn ...
    Aphra Behn's The Fair Jilt Or The Amours of Prince Tarquin and Miranda (1688) is the story of a charming daring and determined lady who contemplates even murder to attain her love. It is all in vain however and her love transforms later into aggressive hatred. ... Read more

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  • The Dunciad

    Enriched edition. A Satirical Masterpiece of 18th-Century Literary Criticism and Moral Decay

    Alexander Pope's "The Dunciad" stands as a satirical tour de force of the early 18th century, encapsulating the cultural and literary tensions of its time. Composed in heroic couplets, the poem is a scathing critique of the prevailing mediocrity and the decline of literary standards, as it mocks the burgeoning influence of dullness and ignorance on the arts. Through mock-epic conventions, Pope ... Read more

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