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Introductory Note: Molière
Tartuffe (Act I), by Molière
The Origin of Species (Ch. VIII, Instinct), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: John Dryden
All for Love (Act III), by John Dryden
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
Discourse on the Passion of Love, by Blaise Pascal
Autobiography (Vol. I, Ch. XXXIV-XXXVIII), by Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings, by Abraham Lincoln
Introductory Note: René Descartes
Discourse on the Method (Part I-II), by René Descartes
Letters on the English (XVIII-XIX), by Voltaire
Introductory Note: Voltaire
Introductory Note: Tacitus
Germany, by Tacitus
Poems, by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: Samuel Johnson
Letter to Lord Chesterfield, by Samuel Johnson
Edward the Second (Act V), by Christopher Marlowe
Introductory Note: Christopher Marlowe
The Thousand and One Nights (The Second Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea)
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
Characteristics, by Thomas Carlyle
Introductory Note: Ben Jonson
The Alchemist (Act I), by Ben Jonson
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Act I), by William Shakespeare
Introductory Note: Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas Malory
The Holy Grail (Book XIII, Ch. VII-XII), by Sir Thomas Malory
Don Quixote (Part I, Ch. VIII), by Miguel de Cervantes
Introductory Note: Sophocles
Antigone (Part I), by Sophocles
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. X), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: Thomas à Kempis
The Imitation of Christ (Book II, Ch. IV-IX), by Thomas à Kempis
The Divine Comedy (Purgatory XXX-XXXII), by Dante Alighieri
Introductory Note: Dante Alighieri
An Account of Egypt (Section 8 and 9), by Herodotus
Introductory Note: Herodotus
Poems (To a Mouse and Tam O’Shanter), by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: Homer
The Odyssey (Book XII), by Homer
The Art of Persuasion, by Blaise Pascal
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
Introductory Note: Pierre Corneille
Polyeucte (ACT I), by Pierre Corneille
The Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen
Introductory Note: Hans Christian Andersen
Introductory Note: John Keats
The Eve of St. Agnes, by John Keats
The Poetic Principle, by Edgar Allan Poe
Introductory Note: Edgar Allan Poe
Introductory Note: Aristophanes
The Frogs, by Aristophanes
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Ch. 1), by Benjamin Franklin
Introductory Note: Benjamin Franklin
Æsop’s Fables, by Æsop
Introductory Note: Æsop’s Fables
Introductory Note: Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Discourse on Inequality (Part II), by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Introductory Note: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke
A Philosophical Inquiry (On Taste), by Edmund Burke
Introductory Note: Alexander Hamilton
The Federalist Papers (No. 1 & 2), by Alexander Hamilton, etc.
Introductory Note: Euripides
The Bacchæ (Part I), by Euripides
Introductory Note: Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake Revived
Introductory Note: The Book of Job
The Book of Job (Ch. 1-10)
The Thousand and One Nights (Introduction)
Introductory Note: Virgil
The Æneid (Book II), by Virgil
Introductory Note: Giuseppe Mazzini
Byron and Goethe, by Giuseppe Mazzini
Introductory Note: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Fisherman and His Wife, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Introductory Note: Marcus Tullius Cicero
On Friendship (Part I), by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Poems Written in School and College, by John Milton
Introductory Note: Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Ch. IX), by Benjamin Franklin
Inaugural Address at Edinburgh University, by Thomas Carlyle
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
Two Years before the Mast (Ch. XIII), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
The Odyssey (Book XXII), by Homer
Drake’s Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges
Introductory Note: Sir Francis Drake
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XVII), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of King Lear, by William Shakespeare
Introductory Note: The Gospel According to Luke
The Gospel According to Luke (Ch. II)
Introductory Note: William Harrison
Holinshed’s Chronicles (Of the Ancient and Present Estate of the Church of England), by William Harrison