Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 12

Warner

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Warner · 96 chapters

Quotes from this book

• Poverty spurred him to exertion.

• he was the seer whose wild enthusiasm caught the oracles from an inner shrine.

Chapters

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• VOLUME XIISample
• (1713-1784)
• FROM 'RAMEAU'S NEPHEW'
• (1814-1881)
• From 'The Amazon': copyrighted by G.P. Putnam's Sons
• THE WATCHMAN
• (200-250 A. D.?)
• From the 'Lives and Sayings of the Philosophers'
• Bias
• Plato
• Aristippus
• Aristotle
• Demetrius
• Antisthenes
• Diogenes
• Cleanthes
• Pythagoras Precepts
• (1766-1848)
• From 'Curiosities of Literature'
• From the 'Commentaries on the Reign of Charles the First'
• (1824-1874)
• EPIGRAM ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD FORBES
• HOW'S MY BOY?
• THE SAILOR'S RETURN
• AFLOAT AND ASHORE
• From 'Balder'
• From 'Balder'
• AMERICA
• From 'Balder'
• (1840-) BY ESTHER SINGLETON
• Villanelle
• THE OLD SEDAN-CHAIR
• THE BALLAD OF PROSE AND RHYME
• THE CURÉ'S PROGRESS
• "Si vieillesse pouvait!"
• A Proper New Ballad of the Country and the Town "Phyllida amo ante alias."—Virgil.
• (After-thought)
• I
• II
• III
• IV
• V
• Of the Spanish Armada
• From 'Four Frenchwomen'
• (1840?-)
• From 'Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates,' Copyright 1896, by Charles Scribner's Sons
• (1573-1631)
• THE UNDERTAKING
• A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING
• SONG
• LOVE'S GROWTH
• SONG
• (1821-1881) BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
• Letter from Varvara Dobrosyeloff to Makar Dyevushkin
• Letter from Makar Dyevushkin to Varvara Alexievna Dobrosyeloff
• From 'Crime and Punishment'
• (1843-)
• From 'Shakespeare: a Critical Study of His Mind and Art'
• From 'Transcripts and Studies'
• From 'Transcripts and Studies'
• (1859-)
• From 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.' Copyright 1892, by Harper & Brothers
• From 'The White Company'
• (1846-)
• From 'Paul and Virginia of a Northern Zone': copyright 1895, by Way and Williams, Chicago
• From 'Once Upon a Time'
• (1795-1820)
• From 'The Croakers'
• THE CULPRIT FAY
• (1811-1882)
• From 'History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.' Copyright 1876, by Harper & Brothers
• From 'History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.' Copyright 1876, by Harper & Brothers
• From 'History of the Intellectual Development of Europe.' Copyright 1876, by Harper & Brothers
• (1563-1631)
• SONNET
• THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT
• From 'Nymphidia, the Court of Faery'
• (1832-1895)
• From 'The Seamstress's Story'
• From 'Monsieur, Madame, and Baby'
• From 'Making an Omelette': from Lippincott's Magazine, 1871, copyrighted
• (1851-)
• From 'Tropical Africa'
• From 'Tropical Africa'
• From 'Tropical Africa'
• (1585-1649)
• SEXTAIN
• MADRIGAL
• REASON AND FEELING
• THE UNIVERSE
• From 'Cypress Grove'
• (1631-1700) BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
• FROM 'THE HIND AND THE PANTHER'
• On His Comedy Called 'The Double Dealer'
• EXCELLENT IN THE TWO SISTER ARTS OF POESY AND PAINTING.
• A SONG
• In Tonson's Folio Edition of the 'Paradise Lost,' 1688
• II
• III
• V
• CHORUS
• VI
• VII
• GRAND CHORUS
• From 'Absalom and Achitophel'
• (1822-1894)
• From 'The Convulsions of Paris'
• (1803?-1870) BY ANDREW LANG
• From 'The Count of Monte Cristo'
• From 'The Three Musketeers'
• From 'The Three Musketeers'
• From 'The Three Musketeers'
• From 'The Viscount of Bragelonne'
• From 'The Lady of Monsoreau'
• (1824-1895) BY FRANCISQUE SARCEY
• From the Preface to 'A Prodigal Father'
• From 'A Friend of the Sex'
• From 'The Money Question'
• From 'L'Étrangère'
• From 'A Prodigal Father'
• From 'L'Étrangère'
• (1834-1896)
• From 'Trilby' Copyright 1894, by Harper & Brothers
• From 'Trilby.' Copyright, 1894, by Harper & Brothers
• From 'Peter Ibbetson.' Copyright 1891, by Harper & Brothers
• From 'The Martian' From Harper's Magazine. Copyright, 1896, by Harper & Brothers
• (1465?-1530?)
• THE THISTLE AND THE ROSE
• FROM 'THE GOLDEN TARGE'
• NO TREASURE AVAILS WITHOUT GLADNESS
• (1811-1894)
• From the 'History of Rome'
• From the 'History of Rome'