Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 | Page 3

EDUCATION, Washington, D.C.

MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A.M., LL.D., Professor of Literature in
the CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D.C.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. I
/* LIVED ABÉLARD AND HÉLOISE (by Thomas Davidson)
1079-1142 Letter of Héloise to Abélard Abélard's Answer to Héloise
Vesper Hymn of Abélard
EDMOND ABOUT 1828-1885 The Capture ('The King of the
Mountains') Hadgi-Stavros (same) The Victim ('The Man with the
Broken Ear') The Man without a Country (same)

ACCADIAN-BABYLONIAN AND ASSYRIAN LITERATURE (by
Crawford H. Toy) 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 (by Lucia Gilbert Runkle) 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 Guerrière
JOHN ADAMS 1735-1826 At the French Court ('Diary') Character of
Franklin (Letter to the Boston Patriot)
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 (Fourth
of July Oration, 1821) The Right of Petition (Speech in Congress)
Nullification (Fourth of July Oration, 1831)
SARAH FLOWER ADAMS 1805-1848 He Sendeth Sun, He Sendeth
Shower Nearer, My God, to Thee
JOSEPH ADDISON (by Hamilton Wright Mabie) 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 ('Oration against
Ctesiphon')
AESCHYLUS (by John Williams White) B.C. 525-456 Complaint of
Prometheus ('Prometheus') Prayer to Artemis ('The Suppliants')
Defiance of Eteocles ('The Seven against Thebes') Vision of Cassandra
('Agamemnon') Lament of the Old Nurse ('The Libation-Pourers')
Decree of Athena ('The Eumenides')
AESOP (by Harry Thurston Peck) 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
('Geological Sketches') Voices ('Methods of Study in Natural History')
Formation of Coral Reefs (same)
AGATHIAS A.D. 536-581 Apostrophe to Plutarch
GRACE AGUILAR 1816-1847 Greatness of Friendship ('Woman's
Friendship') Order of Knighthood ('The Days of Bruce') Culprit and
Judge ('Home Influence')
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH 1805-1882 Students of Paris
('Crichton')
MARK AKENSIDE 1721-1770 From the Epistle to Curio Aspirations
after the Infinite ('Pleasures of the Imagination') On a Sermon against
Glory
PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCÓN 1833-1891 A Woman Viewed

from Without ('The Three-Cornered Hat') How the Orphan Manuel
gained his Sobriquet ('The Child of the Ball')
ALCAEUS Sixth Century B.C. The Palace A Banquet Song An
Invitation The