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

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Warner, George H., 1833-1919

Title

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16

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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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33624

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33624

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September 3, 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. XVI. — NEW YORK THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY — Connoisseur Edition
3. 3.THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
4. 4.TABLE OF CONTENTS — VOL. XVI
5. 5.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS — VOLUME XVI — VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
6. 6.AULUS GELLIUS — ( Second Century A. D. ) — FROM 'ATTIC NIGHTS' — Origin and Plan of the Book — The Vestal Virgins — The Secrets of the Senate — Plutarch and His Slave — Discussion on One of Solon's Laws — The Nature of Sight — Earliest Libraries — Realistic Acting — The Athlete's End
7. 7.GESTA ROMANORUM — THEODOSIUS THE EMPEROURE [A] — Moralite — ANCELMUS THE EMPEROUR [B] — Moralite — HOW AN ANCHORESS WAS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL
8. 8.EDWARD GIBBON — (1737-1794) — BY W. E. H. LECKY — ZENOBIA — FOUNDATION OF CONSTANTINOPLE — CHARACTER OF CONSTANTINE — DEATH OF JULIAN — THE FALL OF ROME — SILK — MAHOMET'S DEATH AND CHARACTER — THE ALEXANDRIAN LIBRARY — THE FINAL RUIN OF ROME
9. 9.WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT — (1836-) — CAPTAIN REECE — THE YARN OF THE NANCY BELL — THE BISHOP OF RUM-TI-FOO — GENTLE ALICE BROWN — THE CAPTAIN AND THE MERMAIDS
10. 10.RICHARD WATSON GILDER — (1844-) — TWO SONGS FROM 'THE NEW DAY' — I — II — "ROSE-DARK THE SOLEMN SUNSET" — NON SINE DOLORE — "HOW PADEREWSKI PLAYS" — I — II — THE SONNET — AMERICA — From 'The Great Remembrance' — ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN — "CALL ME NOT DEAD" — AFTER-SONG — From 'The New Day'
11. 11.GIUSEPPE GIUSTI — (1809-1850) — LULLABY — From 'Gingillino' — THE STEAM-GUILLOTINE
12. 12.WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE — (1809-) — MACAULAY — From 'Gleanings of Past Years'
13. 13.EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN — (1831-) — THE DUTY OF CRITICISM IN A DEMOCRACY — From 'Problems of Modern Democracy.' Copyright 1896, by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
14. 14.GOETHE — (1749-1832) — BY EDWARD DOWDEN — FROM 'FAUST' — Chorus of the Archangels; from the Prologue in Heaven — Shelley's Translation — SCENES FROM 'FAUST' — Translated by Bayard Taylor — Faust and Wagner — Faust and Mephistopheles — Forest and Cavern — Margaret — Martha's Garden — In the Dungeon — In a niche of the wall a shrine, with an image of the Mater Dolorosa. Pots of flowers before it — The Death of Foust — The Salvation of Faust — MIGNON'S LOVE AND LONGING — From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.' Carlyle's Translation — WILHELM MEISTER'S INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE — From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.' Carlyle's Translation — WILHELM MEISTER'S ANALYSIS OF HAMLET — From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship' — THE INDENTURE — From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship' — THE HARPER'S SONGS — From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship' — MIGNON'S SONG — From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship' — PHILINA'S SONG — From 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship' — PROMETHEUS — WANDERER'S NIGHT SONGS — THE ELFIN-KING — FROM 'THE WANDERER'S STORM SONG' — THE GODLIKE — SOLITUDE — ERGO BIBAMUS! — ALEXIS AND DORA — MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS — From 'Maxims and Reflections of Goethe.' Translation of Bailey Saunders. Copyright 1892, by Macmillan & Co. — NATURE
15. 15.NIKOLAI VASILIEVITCH GOGOL — (1809-1852) — BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD — FROM 'THE INSPECTOR' — OLD-FASHIONED GENTRY — From 'Mirgorod'
16. 16.CARLO GOLDONI — (1707-1793) — BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON — FIRST LOVE AND PARTING — From the 'Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni' — THE ORIGIN OF "MASKS" IN THE ITALIAN COMEDY — From the 'Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni' — PURISTS AND PEDANTRY — From the 'Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni' — A POET'S OLD AGE — From the 'Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni' — THE CAFÉ
17. 17.MEÏR AARON GOLDSCHMIDT — (1819-1887) — ASSAR AND MIRJAM — From 'Love Stories from Many Countries'
18. 18.OLIVER GOLDSMITH — (1728-1774) — BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY — THE VICAR'S FAMILY BECOME AMBITIOUS — From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' — NEW MISFORTUNES: BUT OFFENSES ARE EASILY PARDONED WHERE THERE IS LOVE AT BOTTOM — From 'The Vicar of Wakefield' — PICTURES FROM 'THE DESERTED VILLAGE' — CONTRASTED NATIONAL TYPES — From 'The Traveller'
19. 19.IVÁN ALEKSANDROVITCH GONCHARÓF — (1812-) — BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE — OBLÓMOF
20. 20.THE BROTHERS DE GONCOURT — Edmond (1822-1896) Jules (1830-1870) — TWO FAMOUS MEN — From the Journal of the De Goncourts — THE SUICIDE — From 'Sister Philomène' — THE AWAKENING — From 'Renée Mauperin'
21. 21.EDMUND GOSSE — (1849-) — FEBRUARY IN ROME — DESIDERIUM — LYING IN THE GRASS
22. 22.RUDOLF VON GOTTSCHALL — (1823-) — HEINRICH HEINE — From 'Portraits and Studies'
23. 23.JOHN GOWER — (1325?-1408) — PETRONELLA — From the 'Confessio Amantis'
24. 24.ULYSSES S. GRANT — (1822-1885) — BY HAMLIN GARLAND — EARLY LIFE — From 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.' Copyright by Ulysses S. Grant, and reprinted by permission of the family of General Grant — GRANT'S COURTSHIP — From 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.' Copyright by Ulysses S. Grant, and reprinted by permission of the family of General Grant. — A TEXAN EXPERIENCE — From 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.' Copyright by Ulysses S. Grant, and reprinted by permission of the family of General Grant — THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL LEE — From 'Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.' Copyright by Ulysses S. Grant, and reprinted by permission of the family of General Grant
25. 25.HENRY GRATTAN — (1746-1820) — ON THE CHARACTER OF CHATHAM — OF THE INJUSTICE OF DISQUALIFICATION OF CATHOLICS — From the Speech of May 31st, 1811 — ON THE DOWNFALL OF BONAPARTE — From the Speech of May 25th, 1815
26. 26.THOMAS GRAY — (1716-1771) — BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP — ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD — ODE ON THE SPRING — ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE — THE BARD — A Pindaric Ode
27. 27.THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY — BY TALCOTT WILLIAMS — ON THE ATHENIAN DEAD AT PLATÆA — Simonides (556-467 B.C.) — ON THE LACEDÆMONIAN DEAD AT PLATÆA — Simonides — ON A SLEEPING SATYR — Plato (429-347 B. C.) — A POET'S EPITAPH — Simmias of Thebes (405 B.C.) — WORSHIP IN SPRING — Theætetus (Fourth Century B. C.) — SPRING ON THE COAST — Leonidas of Tarentum (Third Century B. C.) — A YOUNG HERO'S EPITAPH. — Dioscorides (Third Century B. C.) — LOVE — Posidippus (Third Century B. C.) — SORROW'S BARREN GRAVE — Heracleitus (Third Century B. C.) — TO A COY MAIDEN — Asclepiades (286 B.C.) — THE EMPTIED QUIVER — Mnesalcus (Second Century B.C.) — THE TALE OF TROY — Alpheus (First Century B.C.) — HEAVEN HATH ITS STARS — Marcus Argentarius (First Century B.C.) — PAN OF THE SEA-CLIFF — Archias (First Century B.C.) — ANACREON'S GRAVE — Antipater of Sidon (First Century B.C.) — REST AT NOON — Meleager (First Century B.C.) — "IN THE SPRING A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY" — Meleager — MELEAGER'S OWN EPITAPH — Meleager — EPILOGUE — Philodemus (60 B.C.) — DOCTOR AND DIVINITY — Nicarchus — LOVE'S IMMORTALITY — Strato (First Century A.D.) — AS THE FLOWERS OF THE FIELD — Strato — SUMMER SAILING — Antiphilus (First Century A.D.) — THE GREAT MYSTERIES — Crinagoras (First Century A.D.) — TO PRIAPUS OF THE SHORE — Mæcius (Roman period) — THE COMMON LOT — Ammianus (Second Century A.D.) — "TO-MORROW, AND TO-MORROW" — Macedonius (Third Century A.D.) — THE PALACE GARDEN — Arabius (527-567 A.D.) — THE YOUNG WIFE — Julianus Ægyptius (532 A.D.) — A NAMELESS GRAVE — Paulus Silentiarius — RESIGNATION — Joannes Barbucallus (Sixth Century A.D.) — THE HOUSE OF THE RIGHTEOUS — Macedonius (Sixth Century A.D.) — LOVE'S FERRIAGE — Agathias (527-565 A.D.) — ON A FOWLER — Isidorus — YOUTH AND RICHES — Anonymous — THE SINGING REED — Anonymous — FIRST LOVE AGAIN REMEMBERED — Anonymous — SLAVE AND PHILOSOPHER — Anonymous — GOOD-BY TO CHILDHOOD — Anonymous — WISHING — Anonymous — HOPE AND EXPERIENCE — Anonymous — THE SERVICE OF GOD — Anonymous — THE PURE IN HEART — Anonymous — THE WATER OF PURITY — Anonymous — ROSE AND THORN — Anonymous — A LIFE'S WANDERING — Anonymous — FOOTNOTES
28. 28.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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