Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 04
Warner
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- THE ADVISORY COUNCILSample
- WOLFE ON THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM
- Preface
- JOHN AND MICHAEL BANIM
- THE PUBLICAN'S DREAM
- THE IRISH PEASANT'S ADDRESS TO HIS PRIEST
- THE IRISH MAIDEN'S SONG
- Chapter
- AUX ENFANTS PERDUS
- BALLADE DES PENDUS
- AGAINST INCONSISTENCY IN OUR EXPECTATIONS
- BETWEEN HELEN AND MADAME MAINTENON
- PRAISE TO GOD
- ALEXANDER BARCLAY
- THE COURTIER'S LIFE
- RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM
- SABINE BARING-GOULD
- THE CORNISH WRECKERS
- THE WIDOW JOYCE'S CLOAK
- WALLED OUT
- JOEL BARLOW
- WILLIAM BARNES
- BLACKMWORE MAIDENS
- MILKEN TIME
- JESSIE LEE
- THE TURNSTILE
- TO THE WATER-CROWFOOT
- ZUMMER AN' WINTER
- JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
- THE COURTING OF T'NOWHEAD'S BELL
- SINS OF CIRCUMSTANCE
- STULTA AND PUERA
- INAPPLICABLE TERMS
- BY GRACE KING
- Preface
- THE BROKEN BELL
- THE ENEMY
- THE PAINTER OF MODERN LIFE
- EVERY ONE HIS OWN CHIMERA
- FROM A JOURNAL
- BY ISA CARRINGTON CABELL
- Preface
- CHARLES ANNESLEY
- THE FUSSY HOSTESS
- PUBLIC SPEAKING
- FEMALE BEAUTY
- LOTHAIR IN PALESTINE
- BY BRANDER MATTHEWS
- OUTWITTING A GUARDIAN
- OUTWITTING A HUSBAND
- BY FLETCHER
- TRUE BEAUTY
- BY BEAUMONT
- ARETHUSA'S DECLARATION
- THE STORY OF BELLARIO
- CONFESSION OF EVADNE TO AMINTOR
- THE DEATH OF THE BOY HENGO
- BY SHAKESPEARE AND FLETCHER
- WILLIAM BECKFORD
- THE INCANTATION AND THE SACRIFICE
- Chapter
- Preface
- BOOK-STORES AND BOOKS
- SELECTED PARAGRAPHS
- POVERTY AND THE GOSPEL
- Preface
- LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
- TO THE SAME
- FROM THE LETTERS TO BETTINA BRENTANO
- TO COUNTESS GIULIETTA GUICCIARDI
- TO MY BROTHERS CARL AND JOHANN BEETHOVEN
- Chapter
- TO BARONESS VON DROSSDICK
- TO HIS BROTHER JOHANN
- BY OLGA FLINCH
- TO ULLA
- ART AND POLITICS
- DRINK OUT THY GLASS
- JEREMY BENTHAM
- OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY
- REMINISCENCES OF CHILDHOOD
- FRAGMENT OF A LETTER TO LORD LANSDOWNE
- THE GAD-FLY
- DRAW IT MILD
- THE KING OF YVETOT
- THE PEOPLE'S REMINISCENCES
- THE OLD TRAMP
- FIFTY YEARS
- THE GARRET
- MY TOMB
- FROM HIS PREFACE TO HIS COLLECTED POEMS
- GEORGE BERKELEY
- PLANTING ARTS AND LEARNING IN AMERICA
- ESSAY ON TAR-WATER
- HECTOR BERLIOZ
- THE ITALIAN RACE AS MUSICIANS AND AUDITORS
- ON GLUCK
- ON BACH
- ON THEATRICAL MANAGERS IN RELATION TO ART
- SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
- SAINT BERNARD'S HYMN
- MONASTIC LUXURY
- Chapter
- BERNARD OF CLUNY
- BRIEF LIFE IS HERE OUR PORTION
- JULIANA BERNERS
- HERE BEGYNNYTH
- WALTER BESANT
- OLD-TIME LONDON
- THE SYNAGOGUE
- BESTIARIES AND LAPIDARIES
- THE LION
- THE PELICAN
- THE EAGLE
- THE PHOENIX
- THE ANT
- THE SIREN
- THE WHALE
- THE CROCODILE
- THE TURTLE-DOVE
- THE MANDRAGORA
- BY FREDERIC TABER COOPER
- PRINCESS SANSEVERINA'S INTERVIEW
- WILLEM BILDERDIJK
- ODE TO BEAUTY
- AN ORIENTAL ROMANCE
- THE VILLAGE SCHOOLMASTER
- AUGUSTINE BIRRELL
- THE OFFICE OF LITERATURE
- TRUTH-HUNTING
- BENVENUTO CELLINI