LET THE BIRD

"Let the bird of loudest lay." Attributed to Shakespeare (1564-1616). Verses among the Additional Poems to Chester's Love's Martyr, 1601.

L'Étourdi. See ÉTOURDI, L'.

Letter to a Noble Lord. Edmund Burke (1729-1797).

Written in 1796, and called forth by an attack made upon Burke by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale in respect to a pension which had been granted him. The noble lord" was Earl Fitzwilliam.

Lettere di Jacopo Ortis. [Letters of Jacopo Ortis.] Political romance. Ugo Foscolo (1777-1827).

This work, which had great popularity, is interesting from its political allusions, and its pictures of Italian society near the close of the last century.

Letters and Social Aims. Essays. Ralph Waldo Emerson (b. 1803).

Letters from a Nobleman to his Son. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774).

This History of England in a series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son was published anonymously in 1764. It was wrongly attributed to Lord George Lyttelton, and also to Lord Chesterfield, and to Lord Orrery.

Aphra Behn (1642-1689) wrote Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister.

Letters to his Son. Philip D. Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773).

His literary reputation rests upon these Letters which were not written for publication, but were printed after his death.

Letters of a British Spy. William Wirt (1772-1834).

Originally published in the Richmond (Virginia) Argus. Passed through many editions. Letters of a Chinese Philosopher. See CHINESE LETTERS.

Letters of Espriella. Robert Southey (1774-1843).

Letters of Junius.

See JUNIUS.

Letters of Malachi Malagrowther. See MALACHI MALAGROWTHER. Letters of Obscure Men. See EPISTOLÆ OBSCURORUM VIRORUM.

Letters on a Regicide Peace. Political writings. Edmund Burke (17291797).

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. Sir Walter Scott (17711832).

LETTRES

Lettres Cabalistiques. Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (17011771).

Lettres Chinoises. [Chinese Letters.] Jean Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704-1771).

"It contains the letters of three Mandarins, who were commissioned by their emperor to examine into the state of the religious opinions, policy, and manners of the Europeans... In his despatches to China,

the chief Mandarin enters at considerable length into the politics of France ant England, and gives some account of the grand epochs of European history."-Dunlop.

Lettres d'une Peruvienne. [Peruvian Letters.] Mme. de Grafigny (16951758).

Lettres Juives. [Jewish Letters.] Fictitious epistles. Jean Baptiste de Boyer d'Argens (1704-1771).

In the Jewish Spy, by D'Argens, which followed the Persian Letters, there is much sarcasm and invective."-Dunlop.

Lettres Parisiennes. [Parisian Letters.] Delphine Gay de Giradin (18041855).

Appeared under the pseudonym of Le Vicomte Delauney in her husband's newspaper La Presse.

Lettres Persanes. [Persian Letters.] Charles de S. de Montesquieu (1689-1755).

Principally consisting of the letters of two so-called Persians who visit France and write their impressions and criticisms to their friends in the East. Under this guise Montesquieu calls public attention to some important moral and political topies, and assails some of the absurdities and prejudices of the time. The Persian Letters have been compared to a mirror with a thousand faces in which the society of the 18th century observed itself, was dazzled, and did not see that it was being made sport of by a superior and independent mind. M. Villemain calls this "le plus profond des livres frivoles."

Lettres Philosophiques. Voltaire (1694-1778).

First appeared as Lettres sur les Anglais. Lettres Portugaises. [Portuguese Letters.] Marianna Alcaforada (17th c.) Lettres Provinciales. See PROVIN

CIALES.

Lettres sur les Anglais. Voltaire (1694-1778).

Afterwards reprinted under the title of Lettres Philosophiques.

A full exposition of his system of philos-
ophy. It gave offence at the time, and was
censured by Parliament in 1666. Hobbes'
theory of government is that of an absolute
monarchy.

"His treatise De Cive was printed in 1642
for his private friends..... In 1650 an Eng-
lish treatise, with the Latin title De Corpore
Politico, appeared; and in 1651 the complete
system of his philosophy was given to the
world in the Leviathan. These three works
bear somewhat the same relation to one an-
other as the Advancement of Learning does
to the treatise de Augmentis Scientiarum;
they are in effect the same; the same order
of subjects, the same arguments, and in most
places either the same words or such vari-
ances as occurred to the second thoughts of
the writer."-Hallam.

Leviticus. Third book of the Old
Testament. Popularly attributed to Moses.

Leyer und Schwert. [Lyre and
Sword.] Lyrics. Karl Theodor Körner
(1791-1813).

Liar, The. Farce. Samuel Foote
(1720 ?-1777).

Founded upon Corneille's comedy, Le
Menteur.

Liberator, The. Anti-slavery_jour-
nal. Begun in 1831 by William Lloyd
Garrison.

Lichtenstein. Historical novel. Wil-
helm Hauff (1802-1827).

Lie, The. Poem. Ascribed to Sir
Walter Raleigh (1552-1618).

First printed in Davison's Poetical Rhap-
sody. It has been attributed to Joshua Syl-
vester and to others, but is now generally
thought to have been written by Raleigh.
Also called The Soul's Errand. Begins:-
"Go, soul, the body's guest,

Upon a thankless errand."

"Two answers to it, writfen in Raleigh's
lifetime, ascribe it to him; and two manu-
script copies of the period of Elizabeth bear
the title of Sir Walter Rawleigh his Lie."—
Chamber's Cyclopædia.

Lied von der Glocke. [The Song
of the Bell.] Ballad. Schiller (1759-1805).
Life and Death of Jason. Poem.
William Morris (b. 1834).

Life Drama. Poem. Alexander Smith
(1830-1867).

Life in London. See TOM AND
JERRY.

Life of a Lover. Novel. Sophia Lee
(1750-1824).

Life of God in the Soul of Man.
Henry Scougal (1650-1678).

Light Erigade. See CHARGE OF THE
LIGHT BRIGADE.

Light of Asia. Poem. Edwin Ar-
nold.

Light of Nature Pursued. Meta-
physical treatise. Abraham Tucker (1705-
1774).

First published under the pseudonym of
Edward Search.

Light of Stars. Poem. Henry W.
Longfellow (b. 1807).

Light of the Harem. See LALLA
ROOKH.

Lights and Shadows of Irish Life.
Mrs. S. C. Hall (b. about 1804).

Lights and Shadows of Scottish
Lafe. Tales. John Wilson, Christopher
North (1785-1854).

Sir Charles James Napier wrote Lights
and Shadows of Military Life, and T. S.
Arthur Lights and Shadows of Real Life.

Lights and Shadows is the title of a novel
by Edward Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, lord
Lytton.

Ligue, La. See HENRIADE.

LILLIBULLERO

Given among the poems of Francis Beaumont. Found also in the poems of Bishop King.

"To what author it must be attributed, is very uncertain."-Dyce.

There are eight or more different stanzas of the same length as this, and framed upon a very similar model, which are found in the works of five or more other authors.

Lillibullero. Song. Attributed to Thomas Wharton (1640?-1715).

"The following rhymes, slight and insignificant as they may now seem, had once a more powerful effect than either the Philippics of Demosthenes or Cicero, and contributed not a little towards the great revolution in 1688."-Percy.

"A foolish ballad was made at that time, treating the Papists, and chiefly the Irish, in a very ridiculous manner, which had a burden said to be Irish words, Lero, lero, lillibullero,' that made an impression on the [king's] army, that cannot be imagined by those that saw it not. The whole army, and at last the people, both in city and country, were singing it perpetually. And perhaps never had so slight a thing so great an effect.-Burnet.

Lilliput, Voyage to. See GULLIVER'S TRAVELS.

Limberham. Comedy. John Dryden (1631-1701).

L'Impromptu de Versailles. See IMPROMPTU DE VERSAILLES.

Lines on receiving his Mother's Picture. See RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE.

Lionel and Clarissa. Comic opera. Isaac Bickerstaff (1735 ?-after 1787).

Lionel Lincoln. Novel. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851). .

A story of Boston and Bunker Hill in 1775. Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century. John Nichols (1744-1826). Literary Life, Recollections of a. Autobiographical sketches. Mary Russell Mitford (1786-1855).

Literature. See AMENITIES OF, CURIOSITIES OF, and PURSUITS OF LITERA

TURE.

Little Barefoot. See BARFUSSELE. Little Dorrit. Novel. Charles Dickens (1812-1870).

Little Fadette. See PETITE FA

DETTE.

Little French Lawyer. Play. Beaumont (1586-1616) and Fletcher (15761625).

Little Peddlington and the Peddlingtonians. Humorous satire. John Poole (19th c.)

Little Red Riding Hood.

A widely diffused legendary story. Charles Perrault (1628-1703) has a fairy tale, in his Contes des Fées, entitled Petit Chaperon Rouge. There is also a Little Red Riding Hood by Miss Thackeray.

Little Women. Story. Louisa M. Alcott.

Also Little Men by the same author. "Lo! God is here! let us adore." Hymn. Charles Wesley (1708-1788). From the original German of Gerhardt Tersteegen.

Lochaber no More. Song. Allan Ramsay (1685-1758).

Begins:

"Farewell to Lochaber, and farewell my

Jean."

Lochiel's Warning. Poem. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844).

Begins:

"Lochiel, Lochiel! beware of the day." Lochinvar. Ballad. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832).

In Marmion, Canto V. Lady Heron's Song. Begins:

"O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west."

Lock, Rape of the. See RAPE OF THE LOCK.

Locksley Hall. Poem. Alfred Tennyson (b. 1809).

Locrine. One of the spurious plays which have been ascribed to Shakespeare. Unknown.

Lodore. See CATARACT OF LODORE. Lokman's Fables.

This well-known collection of fables is ascribed to Lokman, who is regarded as a contemporary of David and Solomon. Some suppose that Lokman and Esop are two names for the same person. See Esop's FABLES.

Lombardi, I. Poem. Tommaso Grossi (1791-1853).

"Since the Gerusalemme of Tasso, it is

"Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago."

Long Vacation Pastoral. BOTHIE OF TOBER-NA-VUOLICH.

See

Looking-glass for London and England. Play. Thomas Lodge (1555 ?1625) and Robert Greene (1560 ?-1592).

"Lord (The) is my shepherd, no want shall I know." Hymn. James Montgomery (1771-1854).

Lord Lovel. Old ballad. Unknown.

"Lord my pasture shall prepare, The." Hymn. [Psalm XXIII.] Joseph Addison (1672-1719).

"Lord my shepherd is, The." Hymn. Isaac Watts (1674-1748).

Lord of Burleigh. Poem. Alfred Tennyson (b. 1809).

Lord of the Isles. Poem. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832).

Bruce and Bannockburn give a historical interest to the poem.

Lord Randal. Old ballad. Unknown.

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LOVE

on the Lurleiberg, a rock overlooking the Rhine, and by her weird songs enticed boatmen into the neighboring whirlpool.

Loss of the Royal George. Elegy. William Cowper (1731-1800).

-"Toll for the brave."

Begins:

"The Royal George, of 108 guns, whilst undergoing a partial careening in Portsmouth Harbour, was overset about 10 A. M. Aug. 29, 1782. The total loss was believed to be near 1000 souls."-Palgrave.

Lost Leader. Poem. Robert Browning (b. 18.2).

Lost Tales of Miletus. See note under MILESIAN TALES.

Lothair. Novel. Benjamin Disraeli (1805-1881).

Lotos-eaters, The. Poem. Alfred Tennyson (b. 1809).

Lotus Eating is by George William Curtis (b. 1824).

Louisa. Metrical novel. Anna Seward (1747-1809).

Lounger, The. A periodical paper. Edited by Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831). Published at Edinburgh in the years 1785

and 1786.

Lousiad, The. "Heroi-comic poem." John Wolcott, Peter Pindar (1738-1819). Love. Poem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834).

Begins:

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights." Love à la Mode. Farce. Charles Macklin (1690-1797).

Love, Art of. See ARS AMATORIA. Love and a Bottle. Drama. George Farquhar (1678-1707).

Love and Duty. Poem. Alfred Tennyson (b. 1809).

Love Chase. Comedy. James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862).

"Love divine, all love excelling." Hymn. Augustus M Toplady (1740-1778). Love for Love. Comedy. William Congreve (1670-1729).

Love, Hymne in Honour of. Edmund Spenser (1553 ?-1599).

Love in a Nunnery. See ASSIGNATION, THE.

Love in a Tub. See COMICAL RE

VENGE.

Love me Little, Love me Long. Novel. Charles Reade (b. 1814).

The familiar quotation "Love me little, love me long" is in Marlowe's Jew of Malta. "Pray love me little, so you love me long" is found in the poems of Robert Herrick.

Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. Satires. Edward Young (1684-1765). Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe. See DAVID AND BETHSABE. Love Triumphant. Play. John Dryden (1631-1701).

Lovel the Widower. Story. William M. Thackeray (1811-1863).

Lover's Complaint. Poem. Shakespeare (1564-1616).

Lover's Melancholy. Drama. John Ford (1586-1639?).

Love's Dominion. Play. Richard Flecknoe (1678).

Love's Labour's Lost. Comedy. Shakespeare (1564-1616).

Love's Last Shift. Comedy. Colley Cibber (1671-1757).

Love's Metamorphosis. Play. John Lyly (1553-1601 ?).

Lyly's claim to the authorship of this play has been disputed.

Loves of the Angels. Poem. Thomas Moore (1779-1852).

Loves of the Plants. Poem. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802).

A second part of the Botanic Garden. See BOTANIC GARDEN, and also LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES.

Jacobin) are ascribed, the first to George Ellis and George Canning, and the second to Canning, Gifford, and Frere.

Love's Pilgrimage. Play. Ascribed to John Fletcher (1576-1625) alone, and also to Fletcher and Massinger, and to Fletcher and Shirley.

Love's Riddle. "A pastoral comedy.” Abraham Cowley (1618-1667).

Love's Sacrifice. Drama. John Ford (1586-1639).

Love's Victory. Tragi-comedy. William Chamberlain (1619-1689).

Loyal Brother. Tragedy. Thomas Southern (1660-1746).

Loyal Subject. Play. Beaumont and Fletcher.

Attributed to John Fletcher (1576-1625) as principal or sole author. Dyce says that this play was written wholly by Fletcher.

Lucanor. See CONDE LUCANOR. Lucasta. Odes, sonnets, etc. Richard Lovelace (1618-1658).

Lovelace usually called "the lady of his love" Lux Casta, hence the above poetical

Lucasta, To [on going to the Wars]. Song. Richard Lovelace (1618-1658). Begins:

Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind." Lucca, Gaudentio di. See GAUDENTIO DI LUCCA.

Lucile. Poem. E. R. Bulwer-Lytton, Owen Meredith (b. 1831).

Luck of Barry Lyndon. Story. William M. Thackeray (1811-1863).

The title under which Barry Lyndon was begun in Frazer's Magazine.

Luck of Edenhall. Ballad. Henry W. Longfellow (b. 1807).

From the German of Uhland (1787-1862). Luck of Roaring Camp. F. Bret Harte (b. 1837).

Lucrece. Poem. Shakespeare (15641616).