Lives And Exploits Of English Highwaymen, Pirates And Robbers
by C Whitehead
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History)
by James Anthony Froude
James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) was one of the foremost historians in Victorian England, famous for his controversial 1884 biography of Thomas Carlyle (also to be reissued in this series), and for many works on England during the Reformation period. In 1892 Froude was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. This volume, first published posthumously in 1895, contains a series of lectures on the English navy in the sixteenth century which he gave at Oxford between 1893 and 1894. I...
An Introduction to the English Classics
by William Trent and Charles Hanson
The Book of the Craft of Dying, and Other Early English Tracts Concerning Death (1917)
by William Caxton and Heinrich Seuse
Pearl is a moving elegy written in the late fourteenth century, in which a grief-stricken narrator struggles to come to terms with the death of his baby daughter. He meets her, now transformed into a beautiful young lady, in a dream, where she attempts to bring him to understand the place of death in the divine plan, and where he is granted a sight of the heavenly Jerusalem. Pearl is celebrated as a jewel among medieval poems, although it is the most challenging of the four works by the anonymou...
Hyacinth O'Gara, Honor Delany, Irish Priests and English Landlords
by George Brittaine
English Coast Defenses from Roman Times to the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century
by George Clinch
Widsith Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere Deor Done Into Common English After the Old Manner
English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
by George Berkeley, David Hume, and John Locke
The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The English Renaissance 1510-1688
by V De Sola Pinto and Bruce Pattison
A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-Le-Hole, in the County of Durham
by Francis M T Palgrave