Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 15

Name: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 15
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VOLUME XV试读
FOLK-SONG
(1720-1777)
From 'The Lame Lover'
From 'The Lame Lover'
A Cure for Bad Poetry
The Retort Courteous
On Garrick's Stature
Cape Wine
Affectation
Arithmetical Criticism
The Dear Wife
Garrick and the Guinea
Dr. Paul Hifferman
Foote and Macklin
Baron Newman
Mrs. Abington
Garlic-Eaters
Mode of Burying Attorneys in London
Dining Badly
Dibble Davis
An Extraordinary Case
Mutability of the World
An Appropriate Motto
Real Friendship
Anecdote of an Author
Dr. Blair
Advice To a Dramatic Writer
The Grafton Ministry
(1586-?)
FROM 'PERKIN WARBECK'
From 'The Broken Heart'
Amethus and Menaphon
(1777-1843)
From 'Undine'
From 'Undine'
SONG FROM 'MINSTREL LOVE'
(1844-)
From 'The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard.' Copyright, 1890, by Harper & Brothers
From 'The Book of My Friend'
FROM 'THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS'
(1182-1226) BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
THE CANTICLE OF THE SUN
(1706-1790) BY JOHN BIGELOW
From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works
From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works
From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works
From Poor Richard's Almanack: 1742
From Poor Richard's Almanack
SPEECH IN THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, IN FAVOR OF OPENING ITS SESSIONS WITH PRAYER
ON WAR
REVENGE Letter to Madame Helvétius
THE EPHEMERA; AN EMBLEM OF HUMAN LIFE Letter to Madame Brillon of Passy, written in 1778
A PROPHECY Letter to Lord Kames, January 3d, 1760
EARLY MARRIAGES Letter to John Alleyne, dated Craven Street, August 9th, 1768
From the 'Autobiography,' in Bigelow's Edition of Franklin's Works
(1839-) BY MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN
Fragments from 'La Légende d'un Peuple': translated by Maurice Francis Egan
Paraphrased by Maurice Francis Egan
Paraphrased from 'Les Feuilles Volantes,' by Maurice Francis Egan
Paraphrased from 'Les Feuilles Volantes,' by Maurice Francis Egan
(1856-)
From 'The Damnation of Theron Ware.' Copyright 1896, by Stone & Kimball
(1823-1892) BY JOHN BACH McMASTER
From 'Historical Essays of Edward A. Freeman,' Third Series. London, Macmillan & Co., 1879
From 'Historical Essays of Edward A. Freeman,' First Series. London, Macmillan & Co., 1871
From 'Historical Essays of Edward A. Freeman,' First Series. London, Macmillan & Co., 1871
From 'The History of the Norman Conquest of England'
(1810-1876)
THE LION'S RIDE
OH, LOVE SO LONG AS LOVE THOU CANST
(1816-1895)
From 'The Lost Manuscript'
(1782-1852) BY NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH
THE RIGHT OF THE CHILD
From 'The Mottoes and Commentaries of Mother-Play.' Copyright 1895, by D. Appleton & Co.
From 'The Letters of Froebel'
From 'The Letters of Froebel'
From 'The Education of Man.' By permission of Josephine Jarvis, the translator, and A. Lovell & Co., publishers
APHORISMS
(1337-1410?) BY GEORGE McLEAN HARPER
From the 'Chronicles': Translation of John Bourchier, Lord Berners How the King of England Rode Through Normandy
Of the Great Assembly that the French King Made to Resist the King of England
Of the Battle of Caen, and How the Englishmen Took the Town
How the French King Followed the King of England in Beauvoisinois
Of the Battle of Blanche-Taque
Of the Order of the Englishmen at Cressy
The Order of the Frenchmen at Cressy, and How they Beheld the Demeanor of the Englishmen
Of the Battle of Cressy, August 26th, 1346
(1818-1894) BY CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON
From 'English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century'
From 'Two Chiefs of Dunboy'
From 'Short Studies on Great Subjects'
From 'Short Studies on Great Subjects'
From the 'History of England'
From 'Short Studies on Great Subjects'
(1859-)
From 'With the Procession.' Copyright 1894 by Henry B. Fuller, and reprinted by permission of Harper & Brothers, publishers, New York
(MARCHIONESS OSSOLI) (1810-1850)
From 'Memoirs': Paris, ——, 1847
From 'At Home and Abroad'
From 'Memoirs': Paris, ——, 1846
(1608-1661)
From 'The Worthies of England'
From 'The Worthies of England'
From 'The Holy and Profane State'
From 'The Worthies of England'
MISCELLANEOUS SAYINGS
(1835-1873)
From 'File No. 113'
From 'File No. 113'
(1845-) BY WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP
From 'The Court of Charles IV.' Copyright 1888, by W.S. Gottsberger. Reprinted by permission of George G. Peck, publisher, New York
From 'Doña Perfecta.' Copyright 1895, by Harper & Brothers
A FAMILY OF OFFICE-HOLDERS
From 'La de Bringas'
(1822-)
From 'Hereditary Genius'
(1851-)
From 'A Freethinker'
(1860-)
From 'Prairie Songs.' Copyright 1893 by Hamlin Garland, and published by Stone & Kimball
From 'Rose of Dutcher's Coolly.' Copyright 1895 by Hamlin Garland, and published by Stone & Kimball
(1810-1865)
From 'Cranford'
From 'Cranford'
(1811-1872) BY ROBERT SANDERSON
From 'The Romance of a Mummy'
FROM 'THE MARSH'
THE DOVES
THE POT OF FLOWERS
PRAYER
THE POET AND THE CROWD
From 'The Old Guard'
(1685-1732)
From the 'Fables'
From the 'Fables'
A Ballad
A Ballad
(1815-1884)
SEE'ST THOU THE SEA?
AS IT WILL HAPPEN
GONDOLIERA
THE WOODLAND
ONWARD
AT LAST THE DAYLIGHT FADETH