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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 Storm The Poor Fisherman The State Poverty
BALTáZAR DE ALCáZAR 1530?-1606 Sleep The Jovial Supper
ALCIPHRON (by Harry Thurston Peck) Second Century From a Mercenary Girl--Petala to Simalion Pleasures of Athens--Euthydicus to Epiphanio From an Anxious Mother--Phyllis to Thrasonides From a Curious Youth--Philocomus to Thestylus From a Professional Diner-out--Capnosphrantes to Aristomachus Unlucky Luck--Chytrolictes to Patellocharon
ALCMAN Seventh Century B.C. Poem on Night
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 1832-1888 The Night Ward