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    The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens
    The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens
    The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens
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    The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens

    By F. G. (Frederic George) Kitton and Charles Dickens

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens - F. G. (Frederic George) Kitton

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens, by

      Charles Dickens

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens

      Author: Charles Dickens

      Editor: F. G. Kitton

      Release Date: March 10, 2011 [EBook #35536]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS, VERSES OF CHARLES DICKENS ***

      Produced by David E. Brown, Bryan Ness and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.)

      THE POEMS AND VERSES OF

      CHARLES DICKENS

      Maclise. R.A.    C. H. Jeens

      CHARLES DICKENS, HIS WIFE, & HER SISTER

      DRAWN BY MACLISE IN 1842.

      THE

      POEMS AND VERSES

      OF

      CHARLES DICKENS

      Collected and Edited, with

      Bibliographical Notes, by

      F. G. KITTON

      LONDON

      CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED

      1903

      Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable

      TO

      MISS GEORGINA HOGARTH

      THIS LITTLE VOLUME

      IS RESPECTFULLY

      DEDICATED

      CONTENTS

      SONGS, CHORUSES,

      AND CONCERTED PIECES FROM

      ‘THE VILLAGE COQUETTES’

      A COMIC OPERA

      1836

      THE VILLAGE COQUETTES

      About the year 1834, when the earliest of the Sketches by Boz were appearing in print, a young composer named John Hullah set to music a portion of an opera called The Gondolier, which he thought might prove successful on the stage. Twelve months later Hullah became acquainted with Charles Dickens, whose name was then unknown to those outside his own immediate circle, and it occurred to him that he and ‘Boz’ might combine their forces by

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