Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16
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As these observations at first constituted my business and my amusement through many long winter nights which I spent in Attica, I have given them the name of 'Attic Nights.'
It is an old proverb, "A jay has no concern with music, nor a hog with perfumes:"
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- VOLUME XVISample
- (Second Century A. D.)
- The Vestal Virgins
- The Secrets of the Senate
- Plutarch and His Slave
- Discussion on One of Solon's Laws
- The Nature of Sight
- Earliest Libraries
- Realistic Acting
- The Athlete's End
- GESTA ROMANORUM
- THEODOSIUS THE EMPEROURE[A]
- Moralite
- ANCELMUS THE EMPEROUR[B]
- Moralite
- HOW AN ANCHORESS WAS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL
- (1737-1794) BY W. E. H. LECKY
- ZENOBIA
- FOUNDATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE
- CHARACTER OF CONSTANTINE
- DEATH OF JULIAN
- THE FALL OF ROME
- SILK
- MAHOMET'S DEATH AND CHARACTER
- THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY
- THE FINAL RUIN OF ROME
- (1836-)
- CAPTAIN REECE
- THE YARN OF THE NANCY BELL
- THE BISHOP OF RUM-TI-FOO
- GENTLE ALICE BROWN
- THE CAPTAIN AND THE MERMAIDS
- (1844-)
- "ROSE-DARK THE SOLEMN SUNSET"
- NON SINE DOLORE
- I
- II
- THE SONNET
- ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- "CALL ME NOT DEAD"
- From 'The New Day'
- (1809-1850)
- From 'Gingillino'
- THE STEAM-GUILLOTINE
- (1809-)
- From 'Gleanings of Past Years'
- (1831-)
- From 'Problems of Modern Democracy.' Copyright 1896, by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
- (1749-1832) BY EDWARD DOWDEN
- Shelley's Translation
- Faust and Wagner
- Faust and Mephistopheles
- Forest and Cavern
- Margaret
- Martha's Garden
- In a niche of the wall a shrine, with an image of the Mater Dolorosa. Pots of flowers before it
- The Death of Foust
- The Salvation of Faust
- From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.' Carlyle's Translation
- From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.' Carlyle's Translation
- From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'
- From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'
- From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'
- From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'
- From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'
- WANDERER'S NIGHT SONGS
- THE ELFIN-KING
- FROM 'THE WANDERER'S STORM SONG'
- SOLITUDE
- ERGO BIBAMUS!
- ALEXIS AND DORA
- NATURE
- (1809-1852) BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
- FROM 'THE INSPECTOR'
- From 'Mirgorod'
- (1707-1793) BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON
- From the 'Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni'
- From the 'Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni'
- From the 'Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni'
- From the 'Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni'
- THE CAFÉ
- (1819-1887)
- From 'Love Stories from Many Countries'
- (1728-1774) BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY
- From 'The Vicar of Wakefield'
- From 'The Vicar of Wakefield'
- PICTURES FROM 'THE DESERTED VILLAGE'
- From 'The Traveller'
- (1812-) BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
- OBLÓMOF
- Edmond (1822-1896) Jules (1830-1870)
- From the Journal of the De Goncourts
- From 'Sister Philomène'
- From 'Renée Mauperin'
- (1849-)
- FEBRUARY IN ROME
- DESIDERIUM
- LYING IN THE GRASS
- (1823-)
- From 'Portraits and Studies'
- (1325?-1408)
- From the 'Confessio Amantis'
- (1822-1885) BY HAMLIN GARLAND
- From 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.' Copyright by Ulysses S. Grant, and reprinted by permission of the family of General Grant
- From 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.' Copyright by Ulysses S. Grant, and reprinted by permission of the family of General Grant.
- From 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.' Copyright by Ulysses S. Grant, and reprinted by permission of the family of General Grant
- From 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.' Copyright by Ulysses S. Grant, and reprinted by permission of the family of General Grant
- (1746-1820)
- ON THE CHARACTER OF CHATHAM
- From the Speech of May 31st, 1811
- From the Speech of May 25th, 1815
- (1716-1771) BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP
- ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD
- ODE ON THE SPRING
- ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE
- A Pindaric Ode
- THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
- Simonides (556-467 B.C.)
- Simonides
- Simmias of Thebes (405 B.C.)
- Theætetus (Fourth Century B. C.)
- Leonidas of Tarentum (Third Century B. C.)
- Dioscorides (Third Century B. C.)
- Posidippus (Third Century B. C.)
- Heracleitus (Third Century B. C.)
- Asclepiades (286 B.C.)
- Alpheus (First Century B.C.)
- Marcus Argentarius (First Century B.C.)
- Archias (First Century B.C.)
- Antipater of Sidon (First Century B.C.)
- Meleager (First Century B.C.)
- Meleager
- Meleager
- Philodemus (60 B.C.)
- Strato (First Century A.D.)
- Strato
- Antiphilus (First Century A.D.)
- Crinagoras (First Century A.D.)
- Mæcius (Roman period)
- Ammianus (Second Century A.D.)
- Macedonius (Third Century A.D.)
- Arabius (527-567 A.D.)
- Julianus Ægyptius (532 A.D.)
- Paulus Silentiarius
- Joannes Barbucallus (Sixth Century A.D.)
- Macedonius (Sixth Century A.D.)
- Isidorus
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- FOOTNOTES