Library Of The World's Best Literature Ancient And Modern, Vol. IX

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Warner, George H., 1833-1919

Title

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 09

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Produced by Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

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English

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PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

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Literature -- Collections

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eBook-No.

34224

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34224

Release Date

November 6, 2010

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.LIBRARY OF THE — WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE — ANCIENT AND MODERN CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER — HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE GEORGE HENRY WARNER — Connoisseur Edition Vol. IX. — NEW YORK THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY — Connoisseur Edition
3. 3.THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS — VOL. IX
5. 5.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS — VOLUME IX — VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
6. 6.ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO — (1781-1838) — THE BARGAIN — From 'The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl' — FROM 'WOMAN'S LOVE AND LIFE'
7. 7.WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING — (1780-1842) — THE PASSION FOR POWER — From 'The Life and Character of Napoleon Bonaparte' — THE CAUSES OF WAR — From a 'Discourse delivered before the Congregational ministers of Massachusetts' — SPIRITUAL FREEDOM — From the 'Discourse on Spiritual Freedom,' 1830
8. 8.GEORGE CHAPMAN — (1559?-1634) — ULYSSES AND NAUSICAA — From the Translation of Homer's Odyssey — THE DUKE OF BYRON IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH — From the 'Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron'
9. 9.FRANÇOIS RENÉ AUGUSTE CHÂTEAUBRIAND — (1768-1848) — CHRISTIANITY VINDICATED — From 'The Genius of Christianity' — DESCRIPTION OF A THUNDER-STORM IN THE FOREST — From 'Atala'
10. 10.THOMAS CHATTERTON — (1752-1770) — FINAL CHORUS FROM 'GODDWYN' — THE FAREWELL OF SIR CHARLES BALDWIN TO HIS WIFE — From 'The Bristowe Tragedie' — MYNSTRELLES SONGE — AN EXCELENTE BALADE OF CHARITTE — As Wroten bie the Gode Prieste Thomas Rowleie, 1464. — THE RESIGNATION
11. 11.GEOFFREY CHAUCER — (13—?-1400) — BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY — PROLOGUE TO THE 'CANTERBURY TALES' — THE TEMPLES OF VENUS, MARS, AND DIANA — From the Knight's Tale — THE PASSING OF THE FAIRIES — From the Wife of Bath's Tale — THE PARDONER'S TALE — THE NUN'S PRIESTS TALE — TRUTH — BALLADE OF GOOD COUNSEL — FOOTNOTES:
12. 12.ANDRÉ CHÉNIER — (1762-1794) — BY KATHARINE HILLARD — THE YOUNG CAPTIVE — ODE
13. 13.VICTOR CHERBULIEZ — (1829-) — THE SILENT DUEL — From 'Samuel Brohl and Company' — SAMUEL BROHL GIVES UP THE PLAY — From 'Samuel Brohl and Company'
14. 14.LORD CHESTERFIELD — (1694-1773) — FROM 'LETTERS TO HIS SON' — Concerning Manners — The Control of One's Countenance — Dress as an Index to Character — Some Remarks on Good Breeding — THE CHOICE OF A VOCATION — From 'Miscellaneous Works'
15. 15.THE LITERATURE OF CHINA — BY ROBERT K. DOUGLAS — SELECTED MAXIMS On Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character, Circumstances, etc. — From the Chinese Moralists
16. 16.RUFUS CHOATE — (1799-1859) — BY ALBERT STICKNEY — THE PURITAN IN SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS LIFE — From Address Delivered at the Ipswich Centennial, 1834 — THE NEW-ENGLANDER'S CHARACTER — From Address Delivered at the Ipswich Centennial, 1834 — OF THE AMERICAN BAR — From the Address before the Cambridge Law School, 1845 — DANIEL WEBSTER — From Eulogy delivered at Dartmouth College, 1853
17. 17.ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM — (A.D. 347-407) — BY JOHN MALONE — THAT REAL WEALTH IS FROM WITHIN — From the 'Treatise to prove that no one can harm the man who does not injure himself' — ON ENCOURAGEMENT DURING ADVERSITY — From the 'Letters to Olympias' — CONCERNING THE STATUTES — From Homily VIII.
18. 18.MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO — (106-43 B.C.) — BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON — Resumé of General Bibliography — OF THE OFFICES OF LITERATURE AND POETRY — From the 'Oration for the Poet Archias' — HONORS PROPOSED FOR THE DEAD STATESMAN SULPICIUS — From the 'Ninth Philippic' — OLD FRIENDS BETTER THAN NEW — From the 'Dialogue on Friendship' — HONORED OLD AGE — From the 'Dialogue on Old Age' — DEATH IS WELCOME TO THE OLD — From the 'Dialogue on Old Age' — GREAT ORATORS AND THEIR TRAINING — From the 'Dialogue on Oratory' — CICERO TO TIRO — CICERO TO ATTICUS — SULPICIUS CONSOLES CICERO AFTER HIS DAUGHTER TULLIA'S DEATH — CICERO'S REPLY TO SULPICIUS — A HOMESICK EXILE — CICERO'S VACILLATION IN THE CIVIL WAR — CICERO'S CORRESPONDENTS — CÆSAR TO CICERO — CÆSAR TO CICERO — POMPEY TO CICERO — CÆLIUS IN ROME TO CICERO IN CILICIA — MATIUS TO CICERO — THE DREAM OF SCIPIO — From the Dialogue (The Republic): Translation of Prof. T.R. Lounsbury — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.THE CID — (1045?-1099) — BY CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH — FROM 'THE POEM OF MY CID' — Leaving Burgos — Farewell To his Wife at San Pedro de Cardeña — Battle Scene — The Challenges — Conclusion
20. 20.EARL OF CLARENDON — (EDWARD HYDE) — (1609-1674) — THE CHARACTER OF LORD FALKLAND
21. 21.MARCUS A. H. CLARKE — (1846-1881) — HOW A PENAL SYSTEM CAN WORK — From 'His Natural Life' — THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH — From 'His Natural Life'
22. 22.MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS — (1740-1815) — SPECULATIONS ON NEW YEAR'S DAY — From the Wandsbecker Bote — RHINE WINE — WINTER — A SONG TO BE SUNG BEHIND THE STOVE — NIGHT SONG
23. 23.HENRY CLAY — (1777-1852) — BY JOHN R. PROCTER — War of 1812 — Treaty of Ghent — Missouri Compromise — Internal Improvements — Spanish-American Independence — The American System — Secretary of State — His Position on African Slavery — The Compromise of 1850 — PUBLIC SPIRIT IN POLITICS — From a Speech at Buffalo, July 17th, 1839 — ON THE GREEK STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE — From a Speech in 1824 — SOUTH-AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE AS RELATED TO THE UNITED STATES — From a Speech before the House of Representatives in 1818 — FROM THE VALEDICTORY TO THE SENATE, DELIVERED IN 1842 — FROM THE LEXINGTON 'SPEECH ON RETIREMENT TO PRIVATE LIFE'
24. 24.CLEANTHES — (331-232 B.C.) — HYMN TO ZEUS
25. 25.SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN) — (1835-) — THE CHILD OF CALAMITY — From 'Life on the Mississippi': copyright 1883, by James R. Osgood and Company — A STEAMBOAT LANDING AT A SMALL TOWN — From 'Life on the Mississippi': copyright 1883, by James R. Osgood and Company — THE HIGH RIVER: AND A PHANTOM PILOT — From 'Life on the Mississippi': copyright 1883, by James R. Osgood and Company — AN ENCHANTING RIVER SCENE — From 'Life on the Mississippi': copyright 1883, by James R. Osgood and Company — THE LIGHTNING PILOT — From 'Life on the Mississippi': copyright 1883, by James R. Osgood and Company — AN EXPEDITION AGAINST OGRES — From 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court': copyright 1889, by Charles L. Webster and Company — THE TRUE PRINCE AND THE FEIGNED ONE — From 'The Prince and the Pauper': copyright 1889, by Charles L. Webster and Company
26. 26.ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH — (1819-1861) — BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON — THERE IS NO GOD — THE LATEST DECALOGUE — TO THE UNKNOWN GOD — EASTER DAY — NAPLES, 1849 — IT FORTIFIES MY SOUL TO KNOW — SAY NOT, THE STRUGGLE NAUGHT AVAILETH — COME BACK — AS SHIPS BECALMED — THE UNKNOWN COURSE — THE GONDOLA — THE POET'S PLACE IN LIFE — ON KEEPING WITHIN ONE'S PROPER SPHERE — From 'The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich' — CONSIDER IT AGAIN — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE — (1772-1834) — BY GEORGE E. WOODBERRY
28. 28.KUBLA KHAN — THE ALBATROSS — From 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' — TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY — DEJECTION: AN ODE — Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence. — THE THREE TREASURES — TO A GENTLEMAN — Composed on the Night after His Recitation of a Poem On the Growth of an Individual Mind — ODE TO GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE — On the Twenty-fourth Stanza in Her 'Passage over Mount Gothard' — THE PAINS OF SLEEP — SONG, BY GLYCINE — YOUTH AND AGE — PHANTOM OR FACT?
29. 29.WILLIAM COLLINS — (1721-1759) — HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE — THE PASSIONS — TO EVENING — ODE ON THE DEATH OF THOMSON
30. 30.WILLIAM WILKIE COLLINS — (1824-1889) — THE SLEEP-WALKING — From 'The Moonstone' — COUNT FOSCO — From 'The Woman in White' — TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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