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Oracles from the Poets

CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS

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QUOTED IN THE ORACLES.

ENGLISH.

Akenside

Addison

Bloomfield

Bowring

Bayley

Barbauld

Burns

Beattie

Byron

Bowles

Baillie

Barton

Browne

Butler

Beaumont and Fletcher

Croly

Cowper

Carew

Cowley

Collins

Congreve

Campbell

Chatterton

Cibber

Cunningham

Cook

Coleridge

Crabbe

Cornwall

Cumberland

Chaucer

Coleman

Clark

Churchill

Carrington

Crashaw

Dryden

Darwin

Elliott

Ferguson

Falconer

Gray

Goldsmith

Gay

Gisborne

Grahame

Howitt

Hemans

Home

Habington

Hunt

Hogg

Hayley

Hammond

Hastings

Herbert

Hood

King James

Johnson

Jones

Jonson

Keats

Kemble

Landon

Lee

Lamb

Lyttleton

Miller

Motherwell

Massinger

Moore

Milton

Mitford

More

Mason

Murphy

Massinger

Milman

Montgomery

Mackenzie

Macaulay

Macneil

Maturin

Norton

Ossian

Pollok

Pope

Prior

Pomfret

Percy's Reliques

Ramsay

Rowe

Rogers

Roscoe

Shelley

Shakspeare

Southey

Sheridan

Spenser

Sotheby

Sterling

Shenstone

Swift

Scott

Smith

Somerville

Taylor, John

Tennent

Thomson

Tighe

Talfourd

Tennyson

Tobin

Taylor

Thom

Vaux

Wordsworth

Wilson

Williams

White

Wotton

Warton

Watts

Wolcott

Webster

Young

AMERICAN.

Aldrich

Bryant

Brooks

Bulfinch

Benjamin

Burleigh

Bancroft

Brainard

Charlton

Clark

Carey

Coxe

Cranch

Child

Crafts

Dana, Mrs.

Davidson, M.

Dana, R. H.

Drake

Dawes

Davidson, L.

Dinnies

Dickson

Doane

Embury

Emerson

Ellet

Follen

Fairfield

Fay

Gallagher

Gould

Gilman, S.

Goodrich

Gilman, C.

Greene

Holmes

Hill

Harvey

Halleck

Hillhouse

Hale

Hosmer

Harrington

James

Lee

Longfellow

Lowell

Lewis

Lunt

McLellan

Morris

Mellen

Moise

Miller

Neal

Noble

Nack

Osgood

Percival

Peters

Pierpont

Prentice

Peabody

Pierson

Pike

Payne

Smith

Street

Simms

Sargent

Sands

Sigourney

Sprague

Scott

Tuckerman

Willis

Whittier

Ware, H.

Wells

Welby

Mrs. Ware

Wilde

Whitman

Wilcox

Woodworth

Illustration from Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room

The Game of the Oracles is composed of the following fourteen Questions, with sixty Answers each, numbered.

What is your character?—Gentleman.Page21

What is your character?—Lady."35

What is the personal appearance of your lady-love?"51

What is the personal appearance of him who loves you?"69

What is the character of your lady-love?"83

What is the character of him who loves you?"97

What season of the year do you love?"111

What hour do you love?"129

What musical sounds do you love?"147

What is your favorite flower?"161

What gratifies your taste or affections?"175

For what have you a distaste or aversion?"193

Where or what will be your residence?"209

What is your destiny?"227

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