Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 08
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- VOLUME VIIISample
- (1509-1564) BY ARTHUR CUSHMAN McGIFFERT
- PREFATORY ADDRESS TO THE 'INSTITUTES'
- From the 'Institutes of the Christian Religion'
- From the 'Institutes of the Christian Religion'
- (1524?-1580) BY HENRY R. LANG
- Canto I
- Canto III
- I
- III
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- L'Envoi
- ADIEU TO COIMBRA
- (1777-1844)
- From the 'Pleasures of Hope'
- From the 'Pleasures of Hope'
- From the 'Pleasures of Hope'
- From the 'Pleasures of Hope'
- WIZARD
- WIZARD
- LOCHIEL
- WIZARD
- LOCHIEL
- THE EXILE OF ERIN
- YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND
- THE BATTLE OF COPENHAGEN
- FROM THE 'ODE TO WINTER'
- (-1619) BY ERNEST RHYS
- A HYMN IN PRAISE OF NEPTUNE
- OF CORINNA'S SINGING
- (A. H. Bullen's modern text)
- (A. H. Bullen's modern text)
- SONGS FROM 'LIGHT CONCEITS OF LOVERS'
- (1770-1827)
- THE UNBELOVED
- From 'The Rovers; or the Double Arrangement' ACT I
- SONG
- FRIEND OF HUMANITY
- KNIFE-GRINDER
- FRIEND OF HUMANITY
- From the 'Speech on Parliamentary Reform'
- ON BROUGHAM AND SOUTH AMERICA
- (1805-1895)
- From 'Margherita Pusterla'
- (1836-) BY FRANK SEWALL
- From the 'Poesie'
- From the 'Poesie'
- From the 'Levia Gravia'
- From the 'Poesie'
- From the 'Levia Gravia'
- From the 'Poesie'
- From the 'Odi Barbare'
- RUIT HORA
- (A Group by Adrian Cecioni)
- (1598?-1639)
- A SONG
- THE PROTESTATION
- SONG
- THE INQUIRY[1]
- (1807-1892)
- From 'The Merchant House among the Islands'
- (1795-1881) BY LESLIE STEPHEN
- From 'Past and Present'
- From 'Sartor Resartus'
- From 'Heroes and Hero-Worship'
- From 'Heroes and Hero-Worship'
- From 'The French Revolution'
- From 'The French Revolution'
- From 'The French Revolution'
- From the 'French Revolution'
- (1861-) BY CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
- HACK AND HEW
- AT THE GRANITE GATE
- A SEA CHILD
- (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) (1832-)
- From 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
- From 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
- From 'Alice in Wonderland'
- From 'Through the Looking-Glass'
- From 'The Hunting of the Snark'
- (JEAN JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT) (1725-1803)
- From 'The Escapes of Casanova and Latude from Prison'
- (1474-1566)
- From 'A Relation of the First Voyage'
- (1478-1529)
- From 'Il Cortegiano'
- (234-149 B.C.)
- From 'De Agricultura.'
- FROM THE 'ATTIC NIGHTS' OF AULUS GELLIUS
- (1577-1660)
- FEAR AFTER THE TROUBLE
- "A RICH MAN LOSES HIS CHILD, A POOR MAN LOSES HIS COW"
- (84-54 B.C.?) BY J. W. MACKAIL
- DEDICATION FOR A VOLUME OF LYRICS
- A MORNING CALL
- HOME TO SIRMIO
- HEART-BREAK
- TO CALVUS IN BEREAVEMENT
- THE PINNACE
- AN INVITATION TO DINNER
- A BROTHER'S GRAVE
- FAREWELL TO HIS FELLOW-OFFICERS
- VERSES FROM AN EPITHALAMIUM
- ELEGY ON LESBIA'S SPARROW
- "FICKLE AND CHANGEABLE EVER"
- LAST WORD TO LESBIA
- (1500-1571)
- From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation
- From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation
- From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation
- From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation
- From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation
- From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation
- I—IRISH
- THE MILLER OF HELL
- SIGNS OF HOME
- OISIN IN TIRNANOGE; or The Last of the Feni
- FROM 'THE COMING OF CUCULAIN' I
- II
- THE MYSTERY OF AMERGIN
- THE SONG OF FIONN
- VISION OF A FAIR WOMAN
- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL
- II—SCOTTISH
- ST. BRIDGET'S MILKING SONG
- PROLOGUE TO GAUL
- COLUMCILLE FECIT (St. Columba Made It)
- IN HEBRID SEAS
- III—WELSH
- IV—CORNISH
- FROM THE 'POEM OF THE PASSION' [The Death of Our Lord on the Cross]
- FROM 'ORIGO MUNDI,' IN THE 'ORDINALIA'
- (1547-1616) BY GEORGE SANTAYANA
- TREATING OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF DON QUIXOTE
- OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE WHEN HE LEFT THE INN
- DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA SALLY FORTH: AND THE ADVENTURE WITH THE WINDMILLS
- SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERESA CONVERSE SHREWDLY
- OF SANCHO PANZA'S DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WITH THE DUCHESS
- SANCHO PANZA AS GOVERNOR
- Don Quixote of La Mancha's Letter to Sancha Panza, Governor of the Island of Barataria
- Sancho Panza's Letter to Don Quixote of La Mancha
- Of How Don Quixote Fell Sick, and of the Will He Made, and How He Died