Essays and phantasies

ESSAYS

AND

PHANTASIES.

BY

JAMES THOMSON,

AUTHOR OF

"THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT, AND OTHER POEMS;"
"VANE'S STORY, WEDDAH AND OM-EL-BONAIN, AND OTHER POEMS."

LONDON:

REEVES AND TURNER,

196 STRAND.

1881.

CONTENTS.

		PAGE
A Lady of Sorrow:
Introductory Note		1
I.	The Angel	4
II.	The Siren	10
III.	The Shadow	16
Proposals for the Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery		51
Bumble, Bumbledom, Bumbleism		104
Per Contra: The Poet, High Art, Genius		124
Indolence: A Moral Essay		142
A National Reformer in the Dog-Days		166
An Evening with Spenser		177
Open Secret Societies		190
Sayings of Sigvat		213
A Word for Xantippe		220
Sympathy		228
Liberty and Necessity		250
A Walk Abroad		257
The Fair of St. Sylvester		269
A Note on Forster's Life of Swift		281
A Note on George Meredith		289
On the Worth of Metaphysical Systems		296
A Few Words on the System of Spinoza		303
In our Forest of the Past		313

This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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