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Introductory Note: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
What Is a Classic? by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XVIII), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: John Bunyan
The Pilgrim’s Progress (Part II, Ch. 9-10), by John Bunyan
Introductory Note: Herodotus
An Account of Egypt, by Herodotus
Introductory Note: Samson Agonistes by John Milton
Samson Agonistes, by John Milton
Introductory Note: John Locke
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (§162-168), by John Locke
Introductory Note: Saint Augustine
The Confessions of St. Augustine (Book IX), Saint Augustine
Introductory Note: Edmund Burke (#3)
A Philosophical Inquiry (Part I), by Edmund Burke
The Odyssey (Book XI), by Homer
Introductory Note: Andrew Marvell
Poems, by Andrew Marvell
Introductory Note: Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake‘s Famous Voyage around the World, by Francis Pretty
Poems, by Robert Browning
Introductory Note: Robert Browning
Introductory Note: Plutarch
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Alcibiades), by Plutarch
Autobiography, by Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
Introductory Note: Thomas De Quincey
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow, by Thomas De Quincey
Parallel Lives of Famous Greeks and Romans (Cicero), by Plutarch
Introductory Note: Joseph Addison
Essays, by Joseph Addison
Introductory Note: Christina Georgina Rossetti
Poems, by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Æneid (Book IV), by Virgil
Introductory Note: The Buddha
The Birth of the Buddha
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas Malory
The Holy Grail (Book XIII), by Sir Thomas Malory
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (The First Dialogue), by George Berkeley
Introductory Note: George Berkeley
Introductory Note: Jonathan Swift
Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation, by Jonathan Swift
Introductory Note: David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Of the Origin of Ideas), by David Hume
Introductory Note: William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Experience, by William Blake
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas More
Utopia (Book II, Part IV), by Sir Thomas More
Introductory Note: Charles Lamb
On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb
Introductory Note: Thomas Dekker
The Shoemaker’s Holiday (Act I & II), by Thomas Dekker
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species (Ch. 1 Variation under Domestication), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
Thoughts (The Misery Of Man Without God), by Blaise Pascal
The Æneid (The Passion of the Queen), by Virgil
Letters on the English (On Inoculation), by Voltaire
Introductory Note: Voltaire
Introductory Note: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Valiant Little Tailor, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Introductory Note: Alfred Tennyson
Morte d’Arthur, by Alfred Tennyson
Introductory Note: Friedrich von Schiller
William Tell (Act III, Scene III), by Friedrich von Schiller
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle
Two Years before the Mast (Ch. XXI), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Introductory Note: Alessandro Manzoni
I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), by Alessandro Manzoni
Introductory Note: Charles Lyell
Principles of Geology (Uniformity Of Change), by Charles Lyell
The Confessions of St. Augustine (Book III), by Saint Augustine
Introductory Note: Saint Augustine
Introductory Note: John Milton
Paradise Lost (Book IX), by John Milton
Leaves of Grass and Drum-Taps, by Walt Whitman
Introductory Note: Walt Whitman
Introductory Note: Oliver Goldsmith
The Deserted Village, by Oliver Goldsmith
Introductory Note: the Book of Psalms
The Book of Psalms (137-145)
Introductory Note: John Milton
Paradise Regained, by John Milton
The Thousand and One Nights
Introductory Note: The Thousand and One Nights
The Force of Gravitation, by Michael Faraday
Introductory Note: Michael Faraday
The Life of Sir Thomas More, by William Roper
Introductory Note: Sir Thomas More
Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille
Introductory Note: Pierre Corneille
Introductory Note: Pliny the Younger
Letters (To the Emperor Trajan), by Pliny the Younger
The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto III & IV), by Dante Alighieri
Introductory Note: Dante Alighieri
Introductory Note: The Tempest by William Shakespeare
The Tempest, by William Shakespeare