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BREAD STREET HILL.

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PREFATORY NOTE.

THE first five of the following Essays are reprinted from the Author's Essays Biographical and Critical: chiefly on English Poets, published in 1856. The present Volume and two similar Volumes issued separately (under the titles "Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, and other Essays" and "Chatterton: A Story of the Year 1770") may be taken together as forming a new and somewhat enlarged edition of the older book. The addition in the present Volume consists of the last Essay.

EDINBURGH :

November 1874.

CONTENTS.

I.

THE THREE DEVILS: LUTHER'S, MILTON'S, AND GOETHE'S

II.

SHAKESPEARE AND GOETHE

III.

MILTON'S YOUTH