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

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Editor

Warner, George H., 1833-1919

Title

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 13

Credits

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

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 34408

Release Date

November 23, 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. XIII. — NEW YORK THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY — Connoisseur Edition
3. 3.THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS — VOL. XIII
5. 5.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS — VOLUME XIII — VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
6. 6.TORU DUTT — (1856-1877) — JOGADHYA UMA — OUR CASUARINA-TREE
7. 7.JOHN S. DWIGHT — (1813-1893) — MUSIC AS A MEANS OF CULTURE — From the Atlantic Monthly, 1870, by permission of Houghton, Mifflin and Company
8. 8.GEORG MORITZ EBERS — (1837-) — THE ARRIVAL AT BABYLON — From 'An Egyptian Princess'
9. 9.JOSÉ ECHEGARAY — (1832-) — FROM 'MADMAN OR SAINT?' — FROM 'THE GREAT GALEOTO'
10. 10.THE EDDAS — (ICELANDIC; NINTH TO THIRTEENTH CENTURIES) — BY WILLIAM H. CARPENTER — FROM THE 'SNORRA EDDA' — Thor's Adventures on his Journey to the Land of the Giants — From 'Northern Antiquities': Bohn's Library (London), 1878 — THE LAY OF THRYM — From the 'Elder Edda' — OF THE LAMENTATION OF GUDRUN OVER SIGURD DEAD — First Lay of Gudrun — THE WAKING OF BRUNHILDE ON THE HINDFELL BY SIGURD — From 'The Story of Sigurd the Völsung,' by William Morris
11. 11.ALFRED EDERSHEIM — (1825-1889) — THE WASHING OF HANDS — From 'The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah'
12. 12.MARIA EDGEWORTH — (1767-1849) — SIR CONDY'S WAKE — From 'Castle Rackrent' — SIR MURTAGH RACKRENT AND HIS LADY — From 'Castle Rackrent'
13. 13.ANNE CHARLOTTE LEFFLER EDGREN — (1849-1892) — OPEN SESAME — A BALL IN HIGH LIFE — From 'A Rescuing Angel'
14. 14.JONATHAN EDWARDS — (1703-1758) — BY EGBERT C. SMYTH — FROM NARRATIVE OF HIS RELIGIOUS HISTORY — RESOLUTIONS — WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF IN 1723 — THE IDEA OF NOTHING — From 'Of Being' — THE NOTION OF ACTION AND AGENCY ENTERTAINED BY MR. CHUBB AND OTHERS — From the 'Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will,' Part iv., § 2 — EXCELLENCY OF CHRIST — THE ESSENCE OF TRUE VIRTUE — From 'The Nature of True Virtue,' Chapters i, ii
15. 15.GERORGES EEKHOUD — (1854-) — EX-VOTO — From 'The Massacre of the Innocents, and Other Tales by Belgian Writers': copyright 1895, by Stone & Kimball — KORS DAVIE — From 'The Massacre of the Innocents, and Other Tales by Belgian Writers': copyrighted 1895, by Stone & Kimball
16. 16.EDWARD EGGLESTON — (1837-) — ROGER WILLIAMS: THE PROPHET OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM — From 'The Beginners of a Nation': copyright 1896, by Edward Eggleston
17. 17.EGYPTIAN LITERATURE — BY FRANCIS LLEWELLYN GRIFFITH AND KATE BRADBURY GRIFFITH — I. The Ancient Kingdom, about B.C. 4500-3000 — II. The Middle Kingdom , B.C. 3000 TO 1600 — III. The New Kingdom, etc. — List of Selections — THE SHIPWRECKED SAILOR — THE STORY OF SANEHAT — Copy of the command which was brought to the humble servant to bring him back to Egypt. — Copy of the acknowledgment of this command. — THE DOOMED PRINCE — THE STORY OF THE TWO BROTHERS — THE STORY OF SETNA — THE STELA OF PIANKHY — INSCRIPTION OF UNA — SONGS OF LABORERS — LOVE SONGS — Love-Sickness — The Lucky Doorkeeper — Love's Doubts — The Unsuccessful Bird-catcher — HYMN TO USERTESEN III. — I — II — III — IV — HYMN TO THE ATEN [217] — HYMNS TO AMEN RA [221] — I — II — III — IV — SONGS TO THE HARP — I — Songs which are in the tomb of King Antef, justified, which are in front of the singer on the harp — II — [ Saith the player on the harp who is in the tomb of the Osirian, the divine father of Amen, [229] Neferhetep, Justified, he saith :—] — FROM AN EPITAPH — FROM A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS SOUL — 'THE NEGATIVE CONFESSION' — First Confession — Second Confession — THE TEACHING OF AMENEMHAT — THE PRISSE PAPYRUS — The Instruction Of Ptahhetep — Instruction of the governor of the royal city, and wazîr Ptahetep, before the majesty of King Assa, who liveth forever and ever — FROM THE 'MAXIMS OF ANY' — INSTRUCTION OF DAUF — CONTRASTED LOTS OF SCRIBE AND FELLÂH — REPROACHES TO A DISSIPATED STUDENT — XIXth Dynasty — FOOTNOTES
18. 18.JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF — (1788-1857) — FROM 'OUT OF THE LIFE OF A GOOD-FOR-NOTHING' — SEPARATION — LORELEI
19. 19.GEORGE ELIOT — (1819-1880) — BY CHARLES WALDSTEIN — THE FINAL RESCUE — From 'The Mill on the Floss' — THE VILLAGE WORTHIES — From 'Silas Marner' — THE HALL FARM — From 'Adam Bede' — MRS. POYSER "HAS HER SAY OUT" — From 'Adam Bede' — THE PRISONERS — From 'Romola' — FOOTNOTES — "OH, MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INVISIBLE"
20. 20.RALPH WALDO EMERSON — (1803-1882) — BY RICHARD GARNETT — THE TIMES — From the Lecture on 'The Times,' 1841 — FRIENDSHIP — NATURE — COMPENSATION — LOVE — CIRCLES — SELF-RELIANCE — HISTORY — EACH AND ALL — THE RHODORA — ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWER? — THE HUMBLE-BEE — THE PROBLEM — DAYS — MUSKETAQUID — FROM THE 'THRENODY' — CONCORD HYMN — Sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, April 19, 1836 — ODE — Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857 — TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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