![]() Mystery and Detective Television Series: 606 different shows. Hotlinks and background information, from the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Mexico, France. 1 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul. Etimologia del termine. La parola italiana libro deriva dal latino liber. Il vocabolo originariamente significava anche "corteccia", ma visto che era un materiale. Song of Myself. Won't you help support Day. Poems? 1. 81. 9- 1. I celebrate myself, and sing myself. And what I assume you shall assume. For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I do not know what it is any more than he. I do not laugh at your oaths nor jeer you; ). The President holding a cabinet council is surrounded by the great. On the piazza walk three matrons stately and friendly with twined arms. The crew of the fish- smack pack repeated layers of halibut in the hold. The Missourian crosses the plains toting his wares and his cattle. As the fare- collector goes through the train he gives notice by the. The floor- men are laying the floor, the tinners are tinning the. In single file each shouldering his hod pass onward the laborers. Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gather'd, it. Seventh- month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!). Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows. Off on the lakes the pike- fisher watches and waits by the hole in. The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep. Flatboatmen make fast towards dusk near the cotton- wood or pecan- trees. Coon- seekers go through the regions of the Red river or through. Tennessee, or through those of the Arkansas. Torches shine in the dark that hangs on the Chattahooche or Altamahaw. Patriarchs sit at supper with sons and grandsons and great- grandsons. In walls of adobie, in canvas tents, rest hunters and trappers after. The city sleeps and the country sleeps. The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time. The old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife. And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them. And such as it is to be of these more or less I am. And of these one and all I weave the song of myself. I resign myself to you also- -I guess what you mean. I behold from the beach your crooked fingers. I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me. We must have a turn together, I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land. Cushion me soft, rock me in billowy drowse. Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you. I will accept nothing which all cannot have their. I am possess'd! Iowa, Oregon, California? O welcome, ineffable grace of dying days! I plead for my brothers and sisters. Comment on Day. Poems? If you are like us, you have strong feelings about poetry, and about each poem you read. Let it all out! Comment on this poem, any poem, Day. Poems, other poetry places or the art of poetry at Day. Poems Feedback. Won't you help support Day. Poems? Click here to learn more about how you can keep Day. Poems on the Web . All rights reserved. The authors of poetry and other material appearing on Day. Poems retain full rights to their work. Any requests for publication in other venues must be negotiated separately with the authors. The editor of Day. Poems will gladly assist in putting interested parties in contact with the authors. Novels of the Eighteenth Century. For news on the latest reviews, author interviews and additions to this website, see the blog. Novels for young people set in the 1. YA 1. 7th Century page. The American and French Revolutions were epochal events that have spawned much historical fiction. The glamorous and extravagant Marie Antoinette, in particular, has fascinated novelists. In England, Monarchists and Parliamentarians turned to political maneuvering rather than civil war to resolve their conflicts. Scotland became part of Great Britain with the Act of Union in 1. Jacobite risings sought to restore Scottish independence until in 1. Battle of Culloden finally crushed attempts to make . Novels about Napoleon and his family and novels set during the Napoleonic Wars are listed on the Napoleonic Era page. Series novels about naval warfare and seafaring are also listed there if some novels in the series are set during the Napoleonic Wars. The British and Irish in the 1. Century. Click on the title for more information from Powell's Books or another online source, or if you're outside the U. S., try The Book Depository. Jump to: Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor (1. London detective and an eighteenth century architect. Peter Ackroyd, The Lambs of London (2. Charles Lamb, his sister Mary, and a young bookseller who claims to have discovered a book once owned by Shakespeare. Review. Beryl Bainbridge, According to Queeney (2. Dr. Samuel Johnson, the eighteenth century English author who published an early dictionary of the English language, from the perspective of the daughter of a couple who befriended him during the last two decades of his life. Samuel Johnson, and his murderously resentful younger brother John Boswell. January 2. 01. 0), about an unmarried young woman who runs away to London after she becomes pregnant, where she becomes an assistant to a firework- maker. Review. George Bowering, Burning Water (1. Captain George Vancouver's voyage of discovery to the Pacific Northwest of the American continent, blending accurate details of the voyage with imaginative fiction. Broster, The Flight of the Heron (1. Highland chieftain who supports Charles Stuart during the Jacobite rebellion, and his friendship with an English soldier who fights for his enemies; #1 in the Jacobite trilogy. Broster, A Gleam in the North (1. Highland chieftain who supported the Jacobite rebellion, and returns home from exile after it fails and tries to live a quiet life; #2 in the Jacobite trilogy. Broster, The Dark Mile (1. Highland chieftain's search for the man who betrayed his cousin during the turmoil after the Jacobite rebellion; #3 in the Jacobite trilogy. Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain's Wife (2. James Cook, who traveled with him in her imagination as, over the years, she lost each of her six children. Review at Reading the Past. Eilis Dillon, Citizen Burke (1. Irish Catholic priest in post- Revolutionary France. Review. Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (1. Cross Stitch in the U. K.), a romantic novel about a former army nurse who slips back in time from the post- World- War II period to 1. Scotland during the 1. Jacobite Rebellion; #1 in the Outlander series. Review. Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber (1. Scotland, repeating a trip she made twenty years before; #2 in the Outlander series. Review. Diana Gabaldon, Written In My Own Heart’s Blood (2. Philadelphia during the American Revolution; #8 in the Outlander series. Gerson, The Mohawk Ladder (1. Queen Anne's American Company of Royal Volunteers during their service to John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, against Louis XIV of France during the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 1. Review. Winston Graham, Demelza: A Novel of Cornwall, 1. Cornish mining village; #2 in the Poldark series. Henty, Bonnie Prince Charlie (1. Stuart heir who was the focus of the 1. Jacobite uprising. Henty, A Jacobite Exile (1. Englishman in Sweden. Review. Georgette Heyer, These Old Shades (1. Georgian romance about a dissipated aristocrat who rescues a ragged urchin and makes him his page boy, only to discover the boy is a young woman; a reworking of The Black Moth using the same characters in a different story. Review. Georgette Heyer, Powder and Patch (1. The Transformation of Philip Jetten minus the last chapter), a Georgian romance about a country gentleman who goes to Paris in a misguided attempt to acquire more polish after a London dandy pays court to the girl he loves. Review. Liz Curtis Higgs, Fair is the Rose (2. Biblical story of Jacob, Leah and Rebecca, set in eighteenth- century Scotland; Christian message; #2 in the Lowlands of Scotland series. Humphreys, Jack Absolute (2. British during the American Revolution; #1 in the Jack Absolute series. Humphreys, The Blooding of Jack Absolute (2. Jack Absolute series and a prequel to Jack Absolute. Humphreys, Absolute Honour (2. Jack Absolute series. Kei, The Sallee Rovers (2. British sailor struggling to come out as gay while surviving storms, battles and other challenges at sea; #1 in the Pirates of the Narrow Seas series; self- published. Kei, Men of Honor (2. British sailor arrested on charges of sodomy and desertion; #2 in the Pirates of the Narrow Seas series; self- published. Kei, Iron Men (2. British sailor trying to rescue his captain from drink as mutiny threatens; #3 in the Pirates of the Narrow Seas series; self- published. Keogh, The Prodigal (2. Englishman who sails to the West Indies to avenge the death of his father by pirates and find his kidnapped mother; #1 in the planned Jack Mallory Chronicles series. Ardian Lee, Son of the Sword, a man travels in time to Scotland during the Jacobite rebellions; #1 in the Matheson Saga; J. Ardian Lee is a pen name formerly used by author Julianne Lee. Ardian Lee, Outlaw Sword, a man travels in time to Scotland during the Jacobite rebellions; #2 in the Matheson Saga; J. Ardian Lee is a pen name formerly used by author Julianne Lee. Ardian Lee, Sword of King James, a man travels in time to Scotland during the eighteenth century Jacobite rebellions; #3 in the Matheson Saga; J. Ardian Lee is a pen name formerly used by author Julianne Lee. Ardian Lee, Sword of the White Rose, a man travels in time to Scotland during the Jacobite rebellions; #4 in the Matheson Saga; J. Ardian Lee is a pen name formerly used by author Julianne Lee. Van Wyck Mason, Manila Galleon (1. George Anson's disastrous voyage around the world in 1. Manila Galleon. Van Wyck Mason, Rascals' Heaven (1. James Edward Oglethorpe, the British general who founded the colony of Georgia in 1. Georgia. Van Wyck Mason, Brimstone Club (1. London men's club that was a forerunner of the infamous Hellfire Club. Review at The Guardian. Katharine Mc. Mahon, The Alchemist's Daughter (2. Newtonian philosopher who marries for love after becoming pregnant and then rediscovers the value of her father's rational investigations. Review. Andrew Motion, Silver (2. Robert Louis Stevenson's. Treasure Island, in which the son and daughter of two former pirates set out to find the remainder of the treasure their fathers left behind forty years previously. Peacock, A Tainted Dawn (2. British aristocrat, a French revolutionary, and a British street fiddler who meet in London and are later embroiled in conflict in the Caribbean. Perriman, Fire on Dark Water (2. English gypsy who marries Edward Teach without realizing he is the violent and ruthless pirate known as Blackbeard. Review at The Independent. Hallie Rubenhold, The French Lesson (2. Paris to search for the man she loves, where she encounters a Scottish courtesan and is drawn into a nest of spies; #2 in the Confessions of Henrietta Lightfoot series. Fitton's Prize (1. British ship whose loyalty is strained when the captain refuses to come to the aid of French royalists (including a beautiful woman) attacked by revolutionaries; #1 chronologically by setting in the Michael Fitton series. Fitton and the Black Legion (1. British ship in February 1.
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