[Complete works of Robert Browning,

"In preparing this first fully annotated edition of the complete works of Robert Browning, care has been taken to give with accuracy the poet's own latest revised text of 1888, 1889 ..."--Editors pref.

The poetic and dramatic works of Robert Browning.

[I] Pauline: Paracelsus: Strafford: Sordello: Pippa passes: King Victor and King Charles.--[II] Dramatic lyrics: The return of the Druses: A blot in the 'scuteheon: Colombe's birthday: Dramatic romances: A soul's tragedy: Luria.--[III] The ring and the book.--[IV] Christmas-eve and Easter day: Men and women: In a balcony: Dramatis peronae: Balaustion's adventure: Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau: Fifine at the fair.--[V] Red cotton night-cap country: Aristophanes' apology: The inn album: Pacchiarotto and how he worked in distemper, and other poems.--[VI] The Agamemmon of æschylus: La Saisiaz: The two poets of Croisic: Dramatic idyls: Jocoseria: Ferishtah's fancies and parleyings.--[VII] A solando.

The poetic and dramatic works of Robert Browning.

Half-title; each vol. has special t. p.

The poetic and dramatic works of Robert Browning...

Half-title; each vol. has special t.-p.

The statesmen of the commonwealth of England, with a treatise on the popular progress in English history.

I. Sir John Eliot. Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford.--II. John Pym. John Hampden.--III. Sir Henry Vane the younger. Henry Marten.--IV. Oliver Cromwell.--V. Cromwell and the republicans.

The poetical works of Robert Browning.

v.1. Pauline. Sordello.--v.2. Paracelsus. Strafford.--v.3. Pippa passes. King Victor and King Charles. The return of the Druses. A soul's tragedy.--v.4. A blot in the 'scutcheon. Colombe's birthday. Men and women.--v.5.. Dramatic romances. Christmas-eve and Easter-day.-- v. 6. Dramatic lyrics. Luria.-- v.7. In a balcony. Dramatis personæ.--v.8-10. The ring and the book.--v.11. Balaustion's adventure. Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau. Fifine at the fair.--v.12 Red cotton night-cap country. The inn album.--v.13. Aristophanes' apology. The Agamemnon of Æschylus.--v.14. Pacchiarotto and how he worked in distemper, with other poems.--v.15. Dramatic idyls (First and second series). Jocoseria.--v.16. Ferishtah's fancies. Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day.--v.17 Asolando. Biographical and historical notes to the poems [by Edward Berdoe] General index. Index to first lines of shorter poems.

The poetical works of Robert Browning ...

Reprinted from the 1868 edition. Pref., V.1, dated Dec. 25. 1867

Select Document: Sir George Radcliffe’s “Original of Government” (1639) and Absolutist Political Theory in Stuart Ireland

A seventeenth-century manuscript miscellany, which once belonged to Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh, contains a short treatise on the origins of government by Sir George Radcliffe. Radcliffe was legal assistant to Sir Thomas Wentworth, lord deputy of Ireland (from January 1640 earl of Strafford and lord lieutenant). The treatise insisted on the divine origin of all human political power and implied that the best form of government was absolute monarchy, in which the monarch was free of all human law and subject to divine restraint alone. It will be suggested below that the composition of this treatise can be dated to the summer of 1639. This introduction will offer an outline of Radcliffe’s education and political career, explain the genesis of his treatise on government, point out some pertinent aspects of its argument, and finally assess the document’s significance.