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By the bodies and minds and souls that rot in a common stye
In the city's offal-holes, where the dregs of its horrors lie,
By the prayers that bubble out, but never ascend to God,...

Dread Mother of Forgetfulness
Who, when Thy reign begins,
Wipest away the Soul's distress,
And memory of her sins.

The trusty Worm that dieth not,
The steadfast Fire also,...

A man once read with mind surprised
Of the way that people were "hypnotised";
By waving hands you produced, forsooth,
A kind of trance where men told the truth!
His mind was filled with wond'ring doubt;...

I dinna ken what is the maitter wi' Jeams,
He canna get sleepit at nicht for his dreams,
An' aye when he waukens he granes and he screams
Till he fair pits the shakers on me!
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The Hypochondriacal Pluto. A Romance. Book I.

The sullen mayor who reigns in hell,
By mortals Pluto hight,
Who thrashes all his subjects well,
Both morn and eve, as stories tell,...

Biologists are prone to sniff
At hybrids like the Hyppogriff.
In evolution's plan, they say,
There is no place for such as they.
A horse with wings could not have more...

No, I won't, thar, now, so! And it ain't nothin', no!
And thar's nary to tell that you folks yer don't know;
And it's 'Belle, tell us, do!' and it's 'Belle, is it true?'...

Argument Of The First Book.

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Argument Of The Second Book.

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Argument Of The Third Book.

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Argument Of The Fourth Book.

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Argument Of The Ninth Book.

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Argument Of The Fifth Book.


Diomede is extraordinarily distinguished. He kills Pandarus, who had violated the truce, and wounds first Venus and then Mars.



Then Athen'an Pallas on the son...

ARGUMENT OF THE SIXTH BOOK.

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Argument Of The Seventh Book.


Ajax and Hector engage in single combat. The Grecians fortify their camp.



So saying, illustrious Hector through the gates...

Argument Of The Eighth Book.

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Argument Of The Tenth Book.


Diomede and Ulysses enter the Trojan host by night, and slay Rhesus.



All night the leaders of the host of Greece...

Argument Of The Eleventh Book.

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Argument Of The Twelfth Book.


The Trojans assail the ramparts, and Hector forces the gates.



So was Menoetius' gallant son employ'd
Healing Eurypylus. The Greeks, meantime,...

Argument Of The Thirteenth Book.

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