Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 09

Name: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 09
Author: Warner

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VOLUME IXSample
(1781-1838)
From 'The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl'
FROM 'WOMAN'S LOVE AND LIFE'
(1780-1842)
From 'The Life and Character of Napoleon Bonaparte'
From a 'Discourse delivered before the Congregational ministers of Massachusetts'
From the 'Discourse on Spiritual Freedom,' 1830
(1559?-1634)
From the Translation of Homer's Odyssey
(1768-1848)
From 'The Genius of Christianity'
From 'Atala'
(1752-1770)
FINAL CHORUS FROM 'GODDWYN'
From 'The Bristowe Tragedie'
MYNSTRELLES SONGE
As Wroten bie the Gode Prieste Thomas Rowleie, 1464.
THE RESIGNATION
(13—?-1400) BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY
PROLOGUE TO THE 'CANTERBURY TALES'
From the Knight's Tale
From the Wife of Bath's Tale
THE PARDONER'S TALE
THE NUN'S PRIESTS TALE
BALLADE OF GOOD COUNSEL
FOOTNOTES:
(1762-1794) BY KATHARINE HILLARD
THE YOUNG CAPTIVE
ODE
(1829-)
From 'Samuel Brohl and Company'
From 'Samuel Brohl and Company'
(1694-1773)
The Control of One's Countenance
Dress as an Index to Character
Some Remarks on Good Breeding
THE CHOICE OF A VOCATION From 'Miscellaneous Works'
THE LITERATURE OF CHINA
From the Chinese Moralists
(1799-1859) BY ALBERT STICKNEY
From Address Delivered at the Ipswich Centennial, 1834
From Address Delivered at the Ipswich Centennial, 1834
From the Address before the Cambridge Law School, 1845
From Eulogy delivered at Dartmouth College, 1853
(A.D. 347-407) BY JOHN MALONE
From the 'Treatise to prove that no one can harm the man who does not injure himself'
From the 'Letters to Olympias'
From Homily VIII.
(106-43 B.C.) BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON
Resumé of General Bibliography
From the 'Oration for the Poet Archias'
From the 'Ninth Philippic'
From the 'Dialogue on Friendship'
From the 'Dialogue on Old Age'
From the 'Dialogue on Old Age'
From the 'Dialogue on Oratory'
CICERO TO TIRO
SULPICIUS CONSOLES CICERO AFTER HIS DAUGHTER TULLIA'S DEATH
CICERO'S REPLY TO SULPICIUS
A HOMESICK EXILE
CICERO'S VACILLATION IN THE CIVIL WAR
CICERO'S CORRESPONDENTS
CÆSAR TO CICERO
CÆSAR TO CICERO
POMPEY TO CICERO
CÆLIUS IN ROME TO CICERO IN CILICIA
MATIUS TO CICERO
From the Dialogue (The Republic): Translation of Prof. T.R. Lounsbury
(1045?-1099) BY CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH
Farewell To his Wife at San Pedro de Cardeña
Battle Scene
The Challenges
Conclusion
(EDWARD HYDE) (1609-1674)
THE CHARACTER OF LORD FALKLAND
(1846-1881)
From 'His Natural Life'
From 'His Natural Life'
(1740-1815)
From the Wandsbecker Bote
RHINE WINE
A SONG TO BE SUNG BEHIND THE STOVE
NIGHT SONG
(1777-1852) BY JOHN R. PROCTER
War of 1812
Treaty of Ghent
Missouri Compromise
Internal Improvements
Spanish-American Independence
The American System
Secretary of State
His Position on African Slavery
The Compromise of 1850
From a Speech at Buffalo, July 17th, 1839
From a Speech in 1824
From a Speech before the House of Representatives in 1818
FROM THE VALEDICTORY TO THE SENATE, DELIVERED IN 1842
FROM THE LEXINGTON 'SPEECH ON RETIREMENT TO PRIVATE LIFE'
HYMN TO ZEUS
(1835-)
From 'Life on the Mississippi': copyright 1883, by James R. Osgood and Company
From 'Life on the Mississippi': copyright 1883, by James R. Osgood and Company
From 'Life on the Mississippi': copyright 1883, by James R. Osgood and Company
From 'Life on the Mississippi': copyright 1883, by James R. Osgood and Company
From 'Life on the Mississippi': copyright 1883, by James R. Osgood and Company
From 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court': copyright 1889, by Charles L. Webster and Company
From 'The Prince and the Pauper': copyright 1889, by Charles L. Webster and Company
(1819-1861) BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON
THERE IS NO GOD
THE LATEST DECALOGUE
TO THE UNKNOWN GOD
NAPLES, 1849
IT FORTIFIES MY SOUL TO KNOW
SAY NOT, THE STRUGGLE NAUGHT AVAILETH
COME BACK
THE UNKNOWN COURSE
THE POET'S PLACE IN LIFE
From 'The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich'
CONSIDER IT AGAIN
(1772-1834) BY GEORGE E. WOODBERRY
From 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY
Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence.
THE THREE TREASURES
TO A GENTLEMAN Composed on the Night after His Recitation of a Poem On the Growth of an Individual Mind
ODE TO GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE On the Twenty-fourth Stanza in Her 'Passage over Mount Gothard'
THE PAINS OF SLEEP
SONG, BY GLYCINE
YOUTH AND AGE
PHANTOM OR FACT?
(1721-1759)
THE PASSIONS
ODE ON THE DEATH OF THOMSON
(1824-1889)
From 'The Moonstone'
From 'The Woman in White'