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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Tomb at St. Praxed's and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Memoirs of Mrs. Jameson that lady's niece, Mrs. Macpherson, relates how on the eve of her and her aunt's departure, a little note of farewell arrived from Miss Barrett," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My aunt's surprise was something almost comical, writes Mrs. Macphe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Before departing from Paris, Mrs. Jameson, in writing to a friend, alluded to her unexpected companions, and added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Both excellent: but God help them! for I know not how the two poet heads and poet hearts will get on through this prosai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "it was with that restful hush which precedes the creative storm. There is something deeply pathetic in her conscious joy. So little actual experience of life had been hers that in many respects she was as a child: and she had all the child's yearning for those unsullied hours th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sonnets from the Portuguese which no poet of Portugal had ever written, which no man could have written, which no other woman than his wife could have composed. From the time when it had first dawned upon her that love was to be hers, and that the laurel of poetry was not to be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle light. I love thee freely, as...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I yield the grave for thy sake, and exchange My near sweet view of heaven for earth with thee!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Browning's health almost leapt, so swift was her advance towards vigour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She is getting better every day, wrote her husband," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But early in April, when the swallows had flown inland above ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How soon all worldly wrong would be repaired! I think how I should view the earth and skies And sea, when once again my brow was bared After thy healing, with such different eyes. O world, as God has made it! All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty. What furth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Ring and the Book, and there, in the many years he dwelt in Casa Guidi, he wrote some of his finer shorter poems. There, also," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aurora Leigh" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We were reading your letter, together, on our little terrace--walking up and down reading it--I mean the letter to Robert--and then, at the end, suddenly turning, lo, just at the edge of the stones, just between the balustrades, and already fluttering in a breath of wind and abo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those who have known Casa Guidi as it was, could hardly enter the loved rooms now, and speak above a whisper. They who have been so favoured, can never forget the square anteroom, with its great picture and pianoforte, at which the boy Browning passed many an hour--the little di...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is a soul of fire enclosed in a shell of pearl: her frame" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and those fine words which prove that he too was of the brotherhood of the poets," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Her tremulous voice often flutters over her wor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poetical Works were published in two volumes. Some of the most beautiful of his shorter poems are to be found therein. What a new note is struck throughout, what range of subject there is! Among them all, are there any more treasurable than two of the simplest," }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Meeting at Night and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Parting at Morning." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Christmas Eve and Easter Day, that remarkable _apologia_ for Christianity, and close-reasoned presentation of the religious thought of the time. It is, however, for this reason that it is so widely known and admired: for it is ever easier to attract readers by dogma than by beau...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such life here, through such length of hours, Such miracles performed in play, Such primal naked forms of flowers, Such letting nature have her way." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I drink my fill at your soul's springs." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ju...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At Home and Abroad," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to the reprint, the essay is noteworthy, not merely as a signal service to Shelley's fame and memory, but for Browning's statement of his own aim in his own work, both as objective and subjective poet. The same clear-sightedness and impartial sympathy, which are such distinguish...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "flirted with Francesca" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and wrote alternately with a feathered quill from the breast of a nightingale and with a lancet steeped in aquafortis: and here, a quarter of a century afterward, Robert and Elizabeth Browning also laughed and wep...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In a Balcony, composed mainly while walking alone through the forest glades), Mrs. Browning found that the chill breath of the _tramontana_ was affecting her lungs, so a move was made to Rome, for the passing of the winter (1853-4). In the spring their little boy, their beloved"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pennini, which was later abbreviated to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pen. The cognomen, Hawthorne states, was a diminutive of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Apennino, which was bestowed upon the boy in babyhood because he was very small, there being a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Men and Women was published. It is difficult to understand how a collection comprising poems such as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Love among the Ruins," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Evelyn Hope," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fra Lippo Li...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One Word More, wherewith her husband, a few months earlier, sent forth his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Men and Women, to be for ever associated with" }, { "from": "human", "value": "E.B.B." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aurora Leigh was published, and met with an almost unparalleled success: even Landor, most exigent of critics, declared that he was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She lives so ardently, adds Mrs. Hawthorne," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Ring and the Book, and for earlier and shorter though not less royal aerial journeyings. But also, no doubt, the prolonged comparatively unpro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poems before Congress had a grudging reception from the critics, because they dared to hint that all was not roseate-hued in England. The true patriots are those who love despite blemishes, not those who cherish the blemishes along with the virtues. To hint at a flaw is" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prospice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest." }, { "from": "human", "value": "One Word More, which...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poetical Works of Robert Browning, M.A., Honorary Fellow of Baliol College, Oxford, were issued in six volumes. Here the equator of Browning's genius may be drawn. On the further side lie the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Men and Women of the period anterior to" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Selections by the poet's latest publishers:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dedicated to Alfred Tennyson. In Poetry--illustrious and consummate: In Friendship--noble and sincere. It was in his preface to this selection that he wrote the often-quoted words:" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He, at least, believed in Soul, was very sure of God." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "La Saisiaz was published along with" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Two Poets of Croisic, which was begun and partly written at the little French village ten years p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Five short days, scarce enough to Bronze the clustered wilding apple, redden ripe the mountain ash." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blanc, supreme above his earth-brood, needles red and white and green, Horns of silver, fangs of crystal set on edge in his demesne." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I became aware, scarcely the word escaped my lips, that swift ensued in silence and by stealth, and yet with certitude, a formidable change of the amphitheatre which held the Carnival; _although the human stir continued just the same amid that shift of scene_." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fifine," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jocoseria, [24] it seems to me the poorest of Browning's works, and I cannot help thinking that ultimately the only gold grain discoverable therein will be" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ixion," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never the time and the place...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Browning Society, I need not say, as well as Browning himself, are fair game for criticism. I had no more to do with the founding it than the babe unborn; and, as Wilkes was no Wilkeite, I am quite other than a Browningite. But I cannot wish harm to a society of, with a few ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Vous êtes poëte?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On s'est permis de me le dire quelquefois." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Et vous avez fait des livres?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trop de livres." }, { "from": "human", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Home Thoughts from the Sea, and that flawless strain of bird-music," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Home Thoughts from Abroad: then, also, that he composed" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How they brought the Good News. Concerning the last, he wrote, in 1...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God's in His heaven, All's right with the world!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the beautiful Palazzo Rezzonico, on the Grand Canal. He was never happier, more sanguine, more joyous, than here. He worked for three or four hours each morning, walked daily for about tw...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Death, death! It is this harping on death I despise so much, he remarked with emphasis of gesture as well as of speech--the inclined head and body, the right hand lightly placed upon the listener's knee, the abrupt change in the inflection of the voice, all so characteristic of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alastor must have occurred to many a mourner; for gone, indeed, was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak, And voiceless hangs the world beside his bier, Our words are sobs, our cry of praise a tear: We are the smitten mortal, we the weak. We see a spirit on Earth's loftiest peak Shine, and wing hence the way he makes more clear: See a gre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No more subjected to the change or chance Of the unsteady planets----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pippa Passes was the predestinated novel thinker in marble, so Browning himself appears as the predestinated novel thinker in verse; the novel thinker, however, in degree, not in kind. But I do not for a moment believe that his greatness is in his status as a thinker: even less,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what is our failure here but a triumph's evidence For the fulness of the days?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The final inductive hazard he declines for himself; his readers may take it if they will. It is part of the insistent and perverse ingenuity which we dis...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in _mass_ of imperishable work, in that far-off day, I for one cannot credit. His poetic shortcomings seem too essential to permit of this. That fatal excess of cold over emotive thought, of thought that, however profound, incisive, or scrupulously clear, is not yet impassioned,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bid shine what would, dismiss into the shade What should not be--and there triumphs the paramount Surprise o' the master." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gregory VII.," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He owes it all to his Memnonian voice! He has no genius: or of declaring, as Prospero says of Caliban in" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Tempest," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is as disprop...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Ring and the Book," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gold as it was, is, shall be evermore; Prime nature with an added artistry." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hope hard in the subtle thing that's Spirit, he cries in the Prologue to" }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Speed, fight on...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Official Guide of the Chicago and Alton R.R. and Monthly Reprint and Advertiser." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alcestis" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Plea for the Ragged Schools of London, by Elizabeth B. Browning, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Twins, by Robert Browning, were printed by Miss Arabella Barrett, for a bazaar in aid of a" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Refuge for Young Destitut...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh Love, Love:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Blind Man to the Maiden said." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Touch him ne'er so lightly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venice, Nov. 27, 1883" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "April 26, 1870." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "April 5, 1884." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Names. Sonnet on Shakespeare. Contributed to the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shaksperian Show-Book" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dec. 10, 1887." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I chanced upon a new book yesterday. 12 lines, dated" }, { "from": "human", "value": "July 8, 1889" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Craven Cottage, Saturday." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bagni di Lucea, Sept. 21, 1849." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bagni di Lucca, 6th Oct., 1857" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nov. 20. On line 131," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Accompanied by a presentation copy of the 3rd vol. of the new collective edition of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poems." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Browning's Message to his Time," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Robert Browning," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Collection of British and American Standard Authors." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Victorian Poets." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Platform Series." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ring and the Book" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aristophanes' Apology." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Cock and the Bull," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Studies in Literature, 1878, pp. 191-239. Studies in Literature, 1789-1877. London, 1878, 8vo. Mr. Browning's place in recent literature, pp. 80-84; Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Browning, pp. 191-239. Transcripts and Studies. London, 1888, 8vo. Mr. Browning's" }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O Lyric Love." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Death in the Desert." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bishop Blougram's Apology. (Read at the 7th meeting of the Browning Society, May 26, 1882.) London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. iii., pp. 279-292. Conscience and Art in Browning. London, 1882, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. iii., pp. 345-379. On" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Robert Browning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Christmas Eve, pp. 195-217. The Imagination and other Essays. Boston [1883], 8vo. Browning's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Christmas Eve," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Caliban upon Setebos," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fifine at the Fair." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Childe Roland," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Scott _v_. Shepherd (1 _Sm. L.C._ 477), Any Pleader to any Student," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pietro of Abano and the leading ideas of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dramatic Idyls." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saul." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Essay on George Chapman's poetical and dramatic works." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Ring and the Book. (Read at the 19th Meeting of the Browning Society, Oct. 26, 1883.) London, 1884, 8vo. The Browning Society's Papers, Pt. v., pp. 85-92." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Strafford" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Campaigner at Home," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Detachment" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Ring and the Book." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Literary Studies" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came. Respectability. A Light Woman. The Statue and the Bust. Love in a Life. Life in a Love. How it strikes a Contemporary. The Last Ride Together. The Patriot. Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha. Bishop Blougram's Apology. Memorabilia. Vol. II. Andrea ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mermaid." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Imperante Augusto natus est ----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Set," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of the very few hooks on art that painters and critics should on no account leave unread this is surely one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "His book is one of the best books about pictures that have come into our hands for some years." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Week." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hyperion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kavanagh, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Trouveres." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Athenian Oracle." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morte d'Arthur. Edited by Ernest Rhys. [This, together with No. 1, forms the complete" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Morte d'Arthur." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A DOLL'S HOUSE," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THE LEAGUE OF YOUTH, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "THE PILLARS OF SOCIETY." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "GHOSTS," }, { "from": "human", "value": "AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, and" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Great Tone Poets," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Verdi: Man and Musician ; Editor of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Master Musicians Series," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Schools and Methods of English Art." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This little volume may rank as the most complete account of Landseer that the world is likely to possess." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To the series entitled 'The Makers of British...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Power of Womanhood." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Songs for Little People," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The BURNS. Poems } Auld Brig o' Doon. KEATS. With Portrait of Keats. EMERSON. With Portrait of Emerson. SONNETS OF THIS CENTURY. Portrait of P. B. Marston. WHITMAN. With Portrait of Whitman. LOVE LETTERS OF A VIOLINIST. Portrait of Eric Mackay. SCOTT. Lady of the Lake, etc. } Wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE MAKERS OF BRITISH ART." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Great Tone Poets," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Music Story Series" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Talks with Bandsmen. THE STORY OF HARMONY. BY EUSTACE J. BREAKSPEARE, Author of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mozart," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Musical Æsthetics, etc. THE STORY OF THE ORGAN. BY C.F. ABDY WILLIAMS, Author of" }, { "from": ...