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

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Editor

Warner, George H., 1833-1919

Title

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 08

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

Language

English

LoC Class

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

Subject

Literature -- Collections

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Text

eBook-No.

33385

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33385

Release Date

August 9, 2010

Copyright

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. VIII. — NEW YORK THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY — Connoisseur Edition
3. 3.THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS — VOL. VIII
5. 5.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS — VOLUME VIII — VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
6. 6.JOHN CALVIN — (1509-1564) — BY ARTHUR CUSHMAN M c GIFFERT — PREFATORY ADDRESS TO THE 'INSTITUTES' — ELECTION AND PREDESTINATION — From the 'Institutes of the Christian Religion' — FREEDOM OF THE WILL — From the 'Institutes of the Christian Religion'
7. 7.LUIZ VAZ DE CAMOENS — (1524?-1580) — BY HENRY R. LANG — THE LUSIADS — Canto I — Canto III — THE CANZON OF LIFE — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII — IX — X — XI — XII — L'Envoi — ADIEU TO COIMBRA
8. 8.THOMAS CAMPBELL — (1777-1844) — HOPE — From the 'Pleasures of Hope' — THE FALL OF POLAND — From the 'Pleasures of Hope' — THE SLAVE — From the 'Pleasures of Hope' — DEATH AND A FUTURE LIFE — From the 'Pleasures of Hope' — LOCHIEL'S WARNING — WIZARD — LOCHIEL — WIZARD — LOCHIEL — WIZARD — LOCHIEL — THE SOLDIER'S DREAM — LORD ULLIN'S DAUGHTER — THE EXILE OF ERIN — YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND — HOHENLINDEN — THE BATTLE OF COPENHAGEN — FROM THE 'ODE TO WINTER'
9. 9.CAMPION — (-1619) — BY ERNEST RHYS — A HYMN IN PRAISE OF NEPTUNE — OF CORINNA'S SINGING — FROM 'DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS' — (A. H. Bullen's modern text) — TO A COQUETTE — (A. H. Bullen's modern text) — SONGS FROM 'LIGHT CONCEITS OF LOVERS'
10. 10.GEORGE CANNING — (1770-1827) — THE UNBELOVED — ROGERO'S SOLILOQUY — From 'The Rovers; or the Double Arrangement' — ACT I — SONG — THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER — FRIEND OF HUMANITY — KNIFE-GRINDER — FRIEND OF HUMANITY — ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION — From the 'Speech on Parliamentary Reform' — ON BROUGHAM AND SOUTH AMERICA
11. 11.CESARE CANTÙ — (1805-1895) — THE EXECUTION — From 'Margherita Pusterla'
12. 12.GIOSUE CARDUCCI — (1836-) — BY FRANK SEWALL — ROMA — From the 'Poesie' — HOMER — From the 'Levia Gravia' — IN A GOTHIC CHURCH — From the 'Poesie' — ON THE SIXTH CENTENARY OF DANTE — From the 'Levia Gravia' — THE OX — From the 'Poesie' — DANTE — From the 'Levia Gravia' — TO SATAN — From the 'Poesie' — TO AURORA — From the 'Odi Barbare' — RUIT HORA — THE MOTHER — ( A Group by Adrian Cecioni )
13. 13.THOMAS CAREW — (1598?-1639) — A SONG — THE PROTESTATION — SONG — THE SPRING — THE INQUIRY [1]
14. 14.EMILIA FLYGARE-CARLÉN — (1807-1892) — THE PURSUIT OF THE SMUGGLERS — From 'The Merchant House among the Islands'
15. 15.THOMAS CARLYLE — (1795-1881) — BY LESLIE STEPHEN — LABOR — From 'Past and Present' — THE WORLD IN CLOTHES — From 'Sartor Resartus' — DANTE — From 'Heroes and Hero-Worship' — CROMWELL — From 'Heroes and Hero-Worship' — THE PROCESSION — From 'The French Revolution' — THE SIEGE OF THE BASTILLE — From 'The French Revolution' — CHARLOTTE CORDAY — From 'The French Revolution' — THE SCAPEGOAT — From the 'French Revolution'
16. 16.BLISS CARMAN — (1861-) — BY CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS — HACK AND HEW — AT THE GRANITE GATE — A SEA CHILD
17. 17.LEWIS CARROLL — (CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) — (1832-) — ALICE, THE PIG-BABY, AND THE CHESHIRE CAT — From 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' — THE MOCK-TURTLE'S EDUCATION — From 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' — A CLEAR STATEMENT — From 'Alice in Wonderland' — THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER — From 'Through the Looking-Glass' — THE BAKER'S TALE — From 'The Hunting of the Snark' — YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM — From 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'
18. 18.CASANOVA — (JEAN JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT) — (1725-1803) — CASANOVA'S ESCAPE FROM THE DUCAL PALACE — From 'The Escapes of Casanova and Latude from Prison'
19. 19.BARTOLOMEO DE LAS CASAS — (1474-1566) — OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA — From 'A Relation of the First Voyage'
20. 20.BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE — (1478-1529) — OF THE COURT OF URBINO — From 'Il Cortegiano'
21. 21.CATO THE CENSOR — (234-149 B.C.) — ON AGRICULTURE — From 'De Agricultura.' — FROM THE 'ATTIC NIGHTS' OF AULUS GELLIUS
22. 22.JACOB CATS — (1577-1660) — FEAR AFTER THE TROUBLE — "A RICH MAN LOSES HIS CHILD, A POOR MAN LOSES HIS COW"
23. 23.CATULLUS — (84-54 B.C.?) — BY J. W. MACKAIL — DEDICATION FOR A VOLUME OF LYRICS — A MORNING CALL — HOME TO SIRMIO — HEART-BREAK — TO CALVUS IN BEREAVEMENT — THE PINNACE — AN INVITATION TO DINNER — A BROTHER'S GRAVE — FAREWELL TO HIS FELLOW-OFFICERS — VERSES FROM AN EPITHALAMIUM — LOVE IS ALL — ELEGY ON LESBIA'S SPARROW — "FICKLE AND CHANGEABLE EVER" — TWO CHORDS — LAST WORD TO LESBIA
24. 24.BENVENUTO CELLINI — (1500-1571) — THE ESCAPE FROM PRISON — From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation — THE CASTING OF PERSEUS — From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation — A NECKLACE OF PEARLS — From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation — HOW BENVENUTO LOST HIS BROTHER — From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation — AN ADVENTURE IN NECROMANCY — From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation — BENVENUTO LOSES SELF-CONTROL UNDER SEVERE PROVOCATION — From the 'Memoirs': Symonds's Translation
25. 25.CELTIC LITERATURE — BY WILLIAM SHARP AND ERNEST RHYS — I—IRISH — THE MILLER OF HELL — SIGNS OF HOME — OISIN IN TIRNANOGE; or The Last of the Feni — FROM 'THE COMING OF CUCULAIN' — I — II — THE MYSTERY OF AMERGIN — THE SONG OF FIONN — VISION OF A FAIR WOMAN — THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL — II—SCOTTISH — ST. BRIDGET'S MILKING SONG — PROLOGUE TO GAUL — COLUMCILLE FECIT ( St. Columba Made It ) — IN HEBRID SEAS — III—WELSH — IV—CORNISH — FROM THE 'POEM OF THE PASSION' [The Death of Our Lord on the Cross] — FROM 'ORIGO MUNDI,' IN THE 'ORDINALIA'
26. 26.CERVANTES — (1547-1616) — BY GEORGE SANTAYANA — TREATING OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF DON QUIXOTE — OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE WHEN HE LEFT THE INN — DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA SALLY FORTH: AND THE ADVENTURE WITH THE WINDMILLS — SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERESA CONVERSE SHREWDLY — OF SANCHO PANZA'S DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WITH THE DUCHESS — SANCHO PANZA AS GOVERNOR — Don Quixote of La Mancha's Letter to Sancha Panza, Governor of the Island of Barataria — Sancho Panza's Letter to Don Quixote of La Mancha — THE ENDING OF ALL DON QUIXOTE'S ADVENTURES — Of How Don Quixote Fell Sick, and of the Will He Made, and How He Died
27. 27.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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