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Title:

A little farm his generous master till'd

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

93 mm x 110 mm / 3"21 x 4"11

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP082

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Title:

And braved the stormy spirit of the Cape

Source Text:

Thomas Campbell, 'The Pleasures of Hope' 1799 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 268–323

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

93 mm x 105 mm / 3"21 x 4"4

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP160

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Title:

And every cottage from the plenteous store

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

James Davis Cooper

Size:

93 mm x 111 mm / 3"21 x 4"12

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP092

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Title:

And further far, where numerous herds repose

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

89 mm x 102 mm / 3"16 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP087

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Title:

And hamlets brown, and dim discovered spires

Source Text:

William Collins, 'Ode to Evening' 1746 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 8–11

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

95 mm x 110 mm / 3"24 x 4"11

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP004

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Title:

And on the bay the moonlight lay

Source Text:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 1798 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 215–61

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

92 mm x 102 mm / 3"20 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP140

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Title:

And strolls the Crusoe of the lonely fields

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Samuel Vincent Slader

Size:

89 mm x 102 mm / 3"16 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP102

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Title:

Around their home the storm-pinch'd cattle lows

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

93 mm x 100 mm / 3"21 x 3"30

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP105

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Title:

At summer eve, when Heaven's aerial bow

Source Text:

Thomas Campbell, 'The Pleasures of Hope' 1799 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 268–323

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

[unknown]

Size:

95 mm x 102 mm / 3"24 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP148

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Title:

Bright as the pillar rose at Heaven's command

Source Text:

Thomas Campbell, 'The Pleasures of Hope' 1799 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 268–323

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

95 mm x 57 mm / 3"24 x 2"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP153

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Title:

Deposits seed, and bids new harvests rise

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

W. T. Green

Size:

93 mm x 114 mm / 3"21 x 4"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP098

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Title:

For many a thousand bodies there

Source Text:

Robert Southey, 'The Battle of Blenheim' 1798 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 264–67

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

86 mm x 113 mm / 3"12 x 4"14

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP147

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Title:

From Kilda to the green Ierne's shore

Source Text:

Thomas Campbell, 'The Pleasures of Hope' 1799 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 268–323

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

William Frederick Measom

Size:

95 mm x 38 mm / 3"24 x 1"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP167

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Title:

Giles with a pole assails their close retreats

Source Text:

Robert Bloomfield, 'The Farmer's Boy' 1800 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 116–93

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Thomas Bolton

Size:

89 mm x 102 mm / 3"16 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP091

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Title:

He passed where Newark's stately tower

Source Text:

Sir Walter Scott, 'Introduction to 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel'' 1805 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 209–14

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

Edmund Evans

Size:

95 mm x 108 mm / 3"24 x 4"8

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP120

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Title:

Here rests his head upon the lap of earth

Source Text:

Thomas Gray, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' 1751 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 12–28

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

William Frederick Measom

Size:

89 mm x 64 mm / 3"16 x 2"17

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP020

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Title:

His listless length at noontide would he stretch

Source Text:

Thomas Gray, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' 1751 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 12–28

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

W. T. Green

Size:

89 mm x 92 mm / 3"16 x 3"20

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP017

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Title:

His praise, ye brooks, attune, ye trembling rills

Source Text:

James Thomson, 'A Hymn to the Seasons' 1730 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 1–7

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

James Davis Cooper

Size:

95 mm x 110 mm / 3"24 x 4"11

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP003

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Title:

How bow'd the woods beneath the sturdy stroke

Source Text:

Thomas Gray, 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' 1751 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 12–28

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

W. T. Green

Size:

89 mm x 89 mm / 3"16 x 3"16

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP008

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Title:

In the golden lightning of the sunken sun

Source Text:

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'To a Skylark' 1820 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 203–08

Illustrator:

Myles Birket Foster

Engraver:

James Davis Cooper

Size:

79 mm x 102 mm / 3"4 x 4"1

Genre:

Poetry / Poetry

DMVI Code:

FEP118