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VOL. I
EDMOND ABOUT 1828-1885 The Capture Hadgi-Stavros The Victim The Man without a Country
ACCADIAN-BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE Theogony Adapa and the Southwind Revolt of Tiamat Penitential Psalms Descent to the Underworld Inscription of Sennacherib The Flood Invocation to the Goddess Beltis The Eagle and the Snake Oracles of Ishtar of Arbela The Flight of Etana An Erechite's Lament The God Zu
ABIGAIL ADAMS 1744-1818 Letters--To her Husband: May 24, 1775; June 15, 1775; June 18, 1775; Nov. 27, 1775; April 20, 1777; June 8, 1779 To her Sister: Sept. 5, 1784; May 10, 1785; July 24, 1784; June 24, 1785 To her Niece
HENRY ADAMS 1838- Auspices of the War of 1812 What the War of 1812 Demonstrated Battle between the Constitution and the Guerri?re
JOHN ADAMS 1735-1826 At the French Court Character of Franklin
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 1767-1848 Letter to his Father, at the Age of Ten From the Memoirs, at the Age of Eighteen From the Memoirs, Jan. 14, 1831; June 7, 1833; Sept. 9, 1833 The Mission of America The Right of Petition Nullification
SARAH FLOWER ADAMS 1805-1848 He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth Shower Nearer, My God, to Thee
JOSEPH ADDISON 1672-1720 Sir Roger de Coverley at Vanity of Human Life the Play Essay on Fans Visit to Sir Roger de Coverley Hymn, 'The Spacious Firmament'
AELIANUS CLAUDIUS Second Century Of Certain Notable Men that made themselves Playfellowes with Children Of a Certaine Sicilian whose Eyesight was Woonderfull Sharpe and Quick The Lawe of the Lacedaemonians against Covetousness That Sleep is the Brother of Death, and of Gorgias drawing to his End Of the Voluntary and Willing Death of Calanus Of Delicate Dinners, Sumptuous Suppers, and Prodigall Banqueting Of Bestowing Time, and how Walking Up and Downe was not Allowable among the Lacedaemonians How Socrates Suppressed the Pryde and Hautinesse of Alcibiades Of Certaine Wastgoodes and Spendthriftes
AESCHINES B.C. 389-314 A Defense and an Attack
AESCHYLUS B.C. 525-456 Complaint of Prometheus Prayer to Artemis Defiance of Eteocles Vision of Cassandra Lament of the Old Nurse Decree of Athena
AESOP Seventh Century B.C. The Fox and the Lion The Belly and the Members The Ass in the Lion's Skin The Satyr and the Traveler The Ass Eating Thistles The Lion and the other Beasts The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing The Ass and the Little Dog The Countryman and the Snake The Country Mouse and the The Dog and the Wolf City Mouse
JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ 1807-1873 The Silurian Beach Voices Formation of Coral Reefs
AGATHIAS A.D. 536-581 Apostrophe to Plutarch
GRACE AGUILAR 1816-1847 Greatness of Friendship Order of Knighthood Culprit and Judge
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH 1805-1882 Students of Paris
MARK AKENSIDE 1721-1770 From the Epistle to Curio Aspirations after the Infinite On a Sermon against Glory
PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARC?N 1833-1891 A Woman Viewed from Without How the Orphan Manuel gained his Sobriquet
ALCAEUS Sixth Century B.C. The Palace A Banquet Song An Invitation The Storm The Poor Fisherman The State Poverty
BALT?ZAR DE ALC?ZAR 1530?-1606 Sleep The Jovial Supper
ALCIPHRON Second Century From a Mercenary Girl--Petala to Simalion Pleasures of Athens--Euthydicus to Epiphanio From an Anxious Mother--Phyllis to Thrasonides From a Curious Youth--Philocomus to Thestylus From a Professional Diner-out--Capnosphrantes to Aristomachus Unlucky Luck--Chytrolictes to Patellocharon
ALCMAN Seventh Century B.C. Poem on Night
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 1832-1888 The Night Ward Amy's Valley of Humiliation Thoreau's Flute Song from the Suds
ALCUIN 735?-804 On the Saints of the Church at York Disputation between Pepin, the Most Noble and Royal Youth, and Albinus the Scholastic A Letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne
HENRY M. ALDEN 1836- A Dedication--To My Beloved Wife The Dove and the Serpent Death and Sleep The Parable of the Prodigal
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH 1837- Destiny Identity Prescience Alec Yeaton's Son Memory Tennyson Sweetheart, Sigh No More Broken Music Elmwood Sea Longings A Shadow of the Night Outward Bound Reminiscence P?re Antoine's Date-Palm Miss Mehetabel's Son
ALEARDO ALEARDI 1812-1878 Cowards The Harvesters The Death of the Year
JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT 1717-1783 Montesquieu
VITTORIO ALFIERI 1749-1803 Scenes from 'Agamemnon'
ALFONSO THE WISE 1221-1284 What Meaneth a Tyrant, and How he Useth his Power On the Turks, and Why they are So Called To the Month of Mary
ALFRED THE GREAT 849-901 King Alfred on King-Craft Alfred's Preface to the Version of Pope Gregory's 'Pastoral Care' From Boethius Blossom Gatherings from St. Augustine
CHARLES GRANT ALLEN 1848- The Coloration of Flowers Among the Heather The Heron's Haunt
JAMES LANE ALLEN 1850- A Courtship Old King Solomon's Coronation
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM 1828-1889 The Ruined Chapel The Winter Pear O Spirit of the Summer-time The Bubble St. Margaret's Eve The Fairies Robin Redbreast An Evening Daffodil Lovely Mary Donnelly
KARL JONAS LUDVIG ALMQUIST 1793-1866 Characteristics of Cattle A New Undine God's War
JOHANNA AMBROSIUS 1854- A Peasant's Thoughts Struggle and Peace Do Thou Love, Too! Invitation
EDMONDO DE AMICIS 1846- The Light Resemblances Birds Cordova The Land of Pluck The Dutch Masters
HENRI FR?D?RIC AMIEL 1821-1881 Extracts from Amiel's Journal: Christ's Real Message Duty Joubert Greeks vs. Moderns Nature, and Teutonic and Scandinavian Poetry Training of Children Mozart and Beethoven
The Book of the Dead . First English Printing . Assyrian Clay Tablet . John Adams . John Quincy Adams . Joseph Addison . Louis Agassiz . "Poetry" . Vittorio Alfieri . "A Courtship" . "A Dutch Girl" .
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
Pierre Ab?lard. Edmond About. Abigail Adams. Aeschines. Aeschylus. Aesop. Grace Aguilar. William Harrison Ainsworth. Mark Akenside. Alcaeus. Louisa May Alcott. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Jean le Rond D'Alembert. Edmondo de Amicis.
Reduced facsimile of the first page of the only copy extant of
GODEFREY OF BOLOYNE
LAST SIEGE AND CONQUESTE OF JHERUSALEM.
The Prologue, at top of page, begins:
Here begynneth the boke Intituled Eracles, and also Godefrey of Boloyne, the whiche speketh of the Conquest of the holy lande of Jherusalem.
Printed by Caxton, London, 1481. In the British Museum.
A good specimen page of the earliest English printing. Caxton's first printed book, and the first book printed in English, was "The Game and Play of the Chess," which was printed in 1474. The blank space on this page was for the insertion by hand of an illuminated initial T.
AB?LARD
BY THOMAS DAVIDSON
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