Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16
Warner
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- THE ADVISORY COUNCILSample
- BY TALCOTT WILLIAMS
- AULUS GELLIUS
- Preface
- THEODOSIUS THE EMPEROURE
- ANCELMUS THE EMPEROUR
- EDWARD GIBBON
- Preface
- FOUNDATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE
- CHARACTER OF CONSTANTINE
- DEATH OF JULIAN
- THE FALL OF ROME
- MAHOMET'S DEATH AND CHARACTER
- THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY
- THE FINAL RUIN OF ROME
- II. The hostile attacks of the Barbarians and Christians. III.
- Preface
- CAPTAIN REECE
- THE YARN OF THE NANCY BELL
- THE BISHOP OF RUM-TI-FOO
- GENTLE ALICE BROWN
- THE CAPTAIN AND THE MERMAIDS
- RICHARD WATSON GILDER
- NON SINE DOLORE
- Preface
- ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- GIUSEPPE GIUSTI
- THE STEAM-GUILLOTINE
- WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
- Preface
- THE DUTY OF CRITICISM IN A DEMOCRACY
- BY EDWARD DOWDEN
- Preface
- CHORUS OF THE THREE
- IN THE DUNGEON
- Preface
- DOCTOR MARIANUS
- MIGNON'S LOVE AND LONGING
- WILHELM MEISTER'S INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE
- WILHELM MEISTER'S ANALYSIS OF HAMLET
- Preface
- THE HARPER'S SONGS
- MIGNON'S SONG
- PHILINA'S SONG
- WANDERER'S NIGHT SONGS
- THE ELFIN-KING
- THE GODLIKE
- ALEXIS AND DORA
- MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS
- Preface
- OLD-FASHIONED GENTRY
- BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON
- FIRST LOVE AND PARTING
- PURISTS AND PEDANTRY
- Preface
- ASSAR AND MIRJAM
- BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY
- THE VICAR'S FAMILY BECOME AMBITIOUS
- Preface
- CONTRASTED NATIONAL TYPES
- BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
- THE BROTHERS DE GONCOURT
- TWO FAMOUS MEN
- THE SUICIDE
- LA BRICHE THEATRE
- EDMUND GOSSE
- FEBRUARY IN ROME
- Preface
- RUDOLF VON GOTTSCHALL
- HEINRICH HEINE
- JOHN GOWER
- Preface
- BY HAMLIN GARLAND
- EARLY LIFE
- GRANT'S COURTSHIP
- THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL LEE
- Preface
- ON THE CHARACTER OF CHATHAM
- OF THE INJUSTICE OF DISQUALIFICATION OF CATHOLICS
- ON THE DOWNFALL OF BONAPARTE
- BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP
- ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD
- ODE ON THE SPRING
- Preface
- THE BARD
- BY TALCOTT WILLIAMS
- ON A SLEEPING SATYR
- WORSHIP IN SPRING
- SPRING ON THE COAST
- ANACREON'S GRAVE
- REST AT NOON
- MELEAGER'S OWN EPITAPH
- SUMMER SAILING
- THE COMMON LOT
- Preface
- THE HOUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS
- GOOD-BY TO CHILDHOOD
- ROSE AND THORN