| Thomas De Quincey.
1785–1859. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Rice Carpenter |
| Charles Lamb |
| Despair |
| The Dead Sister |
| Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow |
| Savannah-La-Mar |
| The Bishop of Beauvais and Joan of Arc |
| Paul Déroulède.
1846–1914. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Harvest |
| In Good Quarters |
| “Good Fighting!” |
| Last Wishes |
| René Descartes.
1596–1650. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Of Certain Principles of Elementary Logical Thought |
| An Elementary Method of Inquiry |
| The Idea of God |
| Paul Desjardins.
1859–1940. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Present Duty |
| The Conversion of the Church |
| Two Impressions |
| Madame de Staël.
1766–1817. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Close of the Introduction to the Treatise on the ‘Influence of the Passions’ |
| From the ‘Preliminary Discourse to the Treatise on Literature’ |
| From ‘Delphine’ |
| From ‘Corinne’ |
| From ‘On Germany’ |
| Napoleon |
| Necker |
| Persecutions by Napoleon |
| Rome Ancient and Modern |
| Sir Aubrey de Vere.
1788–1846. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Crusaders |
| The Children Band |
| The Rock of Cashel |
| The Right Use of Prayer |
| The Church |
| Sonnet: ‘Sad is our youth, for it is ever going’ |
| Bernal Díaz del Castillo.
1496–1584. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From the ‘True History of the Conquest of Mexico’ |
| Charles Dibdin.
1745–1814. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Sea Song |
| Song: The Heart of a Tar |
| Poor Jack |
| Tom Bowling |
| Charles Dickens.
1812–1870. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Life and Writings of Dickens by Laurence Hutton |
| The One Thing Needful |
| The Boy at Mugby |
| The Burning of Newgate |
| Monseigneur |
| The Ivy Green |
| Denis Diderot.
1713–1784. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ |
| Franz von Dingelstedt.
1814–1881. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Man of Business |
| The Watchman |
| Diogenes Laertius.
Third Century A.D. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Life of Socrates |
| Examples of Greek Wit and Wisdom |
| Isaac Disraeli.
1766–1848. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Poets, Philosophers, and Artists Made by Accident |
| The Martyrdom of Charles the First |
| Sydney Dobell.
1824–1874. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Epigram on the Death of Edward Forbes |
| How’s My Boy? |
| The Sailor’s Return |
| Afloat and Ashore |
| The Soul |
| England |
| America |
| Amy’s Song of the Willow |
| Henry Austin Dobson.
1840–1921. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Esther Singleton |
| On a Nankin Plate |
| The Old Sedan-Chair |
| The Ballad of Prose and Rhyme |
| The Curé’s Progress |
| “Good-Night, Babbette” |
| The Ladies of St. James’s |
| Dora versus Rose |
| Une Marquise |
| A Ballad to Queen Elizabeth |
| The Princess de Lamballe |
| Mary Mapes Dodge.
1831–1905. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Race |
| John Donne.
1572–1631. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Undertaking |
| A Valediction Forbidding Mourning |
| Song: ‘Go and catch a falling star’ |
| Love’s Growth |
| Song: ‘Sweetest Love, I do not go’ |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
1821–1881. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Isabel Florence Hapgood |
| From ‘Poor People’ |
| The Bible Reading |
| Edward Dowden.
1843–1913. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Humor of Shakespeare |
| Shakespeare’s Portraiture of Women |
| The Interpretation of Literature |
| Arthur Conan Doyle.
1859–1930. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Red-Headed League |
| The Bowmen’s Song |
| Holger Drachmann.
1846–1908. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Skipper and His Ship |
| The Prince’s Song |
| Joseph Rodman Drake.
1795–1820. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Winter’s Tale |
| From ‘The Culprit Fay’ |
| The American Flag |
| The Drama of the Early Twentieth Century. |
Critical Introduction by Frank Wadleigh Chandler |
| John William Draper.
1811–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Vedas and their Theology |
| Primitive Beliefs Dismissed by Scientific Knowledge |
| The Koran |
| Michael Drayton.
1563–1631. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Sonnet: ‘Since there’s no help, come, let us kiss and part’ |
| The Ballad of Agincourt |
| Queen Mab’s Excursion |
| Gustave Droz.
1832–1895. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| How the Baby was Saved |
| A Family New-Year’s |
| Their Last Excursion |
| Henry Drummond.
1851–1897. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Country and its People |
| The East-African Lake Country |
| White Ants |
| William Drummond of Hawthornden.
1585–1649. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Sextain: ‘The heaven doth not contain so many stars’ |
| Madrigal: ‘This world a-hunting is’ |
| Reason and Feeling |
| Degeneracy of the World |
| The Briefness of Life |
| The Universe |
| On Death |
| William Henry Drummond.
1854–1907. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Susan E. Cameron |
| De Habitant |
| The Wreck of the “Julie Plante” |
| John Dryden.
1631–1700. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury |
| From ‘The Hind and the Panther’ |
| To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve |
| Ode to the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew |
| A Song: ‘Fair, sweet, and young, receive a prize’ |
| Lines Printed under Milton’s Portrait |
| Alexander’s Feast; or, The Power of Music |
| Achitophel |
| Maxime Du Camp.
1822–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Street Scene during the Commune |
| Madame du Deffand (Vichy-Chamrond).
1697–1780. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Selected Letters |
| Portrait of Horace Walpole |
| Alexandre Dumas.
1802–1870. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Andrew Lang |
| The Cure for Dormice that Eat Peaches |
| The Shoulder of Athos, the Belt of Porthos, and the Handkerchief of Aramis |
| The Defense of the Bastion Saint-Gervais |
| The Consultation of the Musketeers |
| The Man in the Iron Mask |
| A Trick is Played on Henry III. by Aid of Chicot |
| Alexandre Dumas, Jr.
1824–1895. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Francisque Sarcey |
| The Playwright Is Born—and Made |
| An Armed Truce |
| Two Views of Money |
| M. De Rémonin’s Philosophy of Marriage |
| Reforming a Father |
| Mr. and Mrs. Clarkson |
| George du Maurier.
1834–1896. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| At the Heart of Bohemia |
| Christmas in the Latin Quarter |
| “Dreaming True” |
| Barty Josselin at School |
| William Dunbar.
1460?–1520? |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Thistle and the Rose |
| From ‘The Golden Targe’ |
| No Treasure Avails without Gladness |
| Finley Peter Dunne.
1867–1936. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Jefferson Butler Fletcher |
| On Our Cuban Allies |
| On the Dreyfus Case |
| Victor Duruy.
1811–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The National Policy |
| Results of the Roman Dominion |
| Toru Dutt.
1856–1877. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Jogadhya Uma |
| Our Casuarina-Tree |
| John Sullivan Dwight.
1813–1893. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Music as a Means of Culture |
| Georg Ebers.
1837–1898. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Arrival at Babylon |
| José Echegaray.
1832–1916. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Federico de Onís |
| From ‘Madman or Saint?’ |
| From ‘The Great Galeoto’ |
| Epilogue of Mariana |
| The Eddas (Icelandic).
Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries. |
Critical Introduction by William Henry Carpenter |
| Thor’s Adventures on his Journey to the Land of the Giants |
| The Lay of Thrym |
| Of the Lamentation of Gudrun over Sigurd Dead |
| The Waking of Brunhilde on the Hindfell by Sigurd |
| Alfred Edersheim.
1825–1889. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Washing of Hands |
| Maria Edgeworth.
1768–1849. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Sir Condy’s Wake |
| Sir Murtagh Rackrent and His Lady |
| Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler.
1849–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Open Sesame |
| A Ball in High Life |
| Jonathan Edwards.
1703–1758. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Egbert Coffin Smyth |
| From “Narrative of His Religious History” |
| “Written on a Blank Leaf in 1723” |
| The Idea of Nothing |
| The Notion of Action and Agency Entertained by Mr. Chubb and Others |
| Excellency of Christ |
| The Essence of True Virtue |
| Georges Eekhoud.
1854–1927. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Ex-Voto |
| Kors Davie |
| Edward Eggleston.
1837–1902. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Roger Williams: the Prophet of Religious Freedom |
| Egyptian Literature. |
Critical Introduction by Francis Llewellyn Griffith and Kate Bradbury Griffith |
| The Shipwrecked Sailor |
| Story of Sanehat |
| The Doomed Prince |
| The Story of the Two Brothers |
| Story of Setna |
| The Stela of Piankhy |
| Inscription of Una |
| Songs of Laborers |
| Love Songs |
| Hymn to Usertesen III. |
| Hymn to the Aten |
| Hymns to Amen Ra |
| Songs to the Harp |
| From an Epitaph |
| From a Dialogue between a Man and his Soul |
| ‘The Negative Confession’ |
| The Teaching of Amenemhat |
| The Prisse Papyrus: Instruction of Ptahhetep |
| From the ‘Maxims of Any’ |
| Instruction of Dauf |
| Contrasted Lots of Scribe and Fellâh |
| Reproaches to a Dissipated Student |
| Joseph von Eichendorff.
1788–1857. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘Out of the Life of a Good-for-Nothing’ |
| Separation |
| Lorelei |
| Charles William Eliot.
1834–1926. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Harry Morgan Ayres |
| Inaugural Address as President of Harvard College |
| The Happy Life |
| George Eliot.
1819–1880. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Waldstein |
| The Final Rescue |
| The Village Worthies |
| The Hall Farm |
| Mrs. Poyser “Has Her Say Out” |
| The Prisoners |
| “Oh, May I Join the Choir Invisible” |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson.
1803–1882. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Garnett |
| From ‘The Times’ |
| From ‘Friendship’ |
| From ‘Nature’ |
| From ‘Compensation’ |
| From ‘Love’ |
| From ‘Circles’ |
| From ‘Self-Reliance’ |
| From ‘History’ |
| Each and All |
| The Rhodora |
| The Humble-Bee |
| The Problem |
| Days |
| Musketaquid |
| From the ‘Threnody’ |
| Concord Hymn |
| Ode Sung in the Town Hall, Concord, July 4, 1857 |
| Empedocles.
c. 495–435 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George Herbert Palmer |
| From the Poem on Nature |
| Other Fragments from the Poem on Nature |
| From the Poem on Purifications |
| Ennius.
239–169 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton |
| Portrait of a Scholar |
| Rhea Silvia’s Dream |
| Pyrrhus’s Speech |
| Character of Fabius |
| Epitaph on Scipio, I |
| Epitaph on Ennius |
| Epitaph on Scipio, II |
| Book I, VI, VII, VIII, XIV, XVI |
| Unplaced Fragments |
| József Eötvös.
1813–1871. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Viola in Court |
| Epictetus.
c. 50–c. 138. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
| From the Discourses |
| From the ‘Enchiridion’ |
| From the ‘Fragments’ |
| Desiderius Erasmus.
c. 1467–1536. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Andrew Dickson White |
| From the ‘Adages’ |
| From ‘The Christian’s Manual’ |
| From ‘The Praise of Folly’ |
| From the ‘Colloquies’ |
| From Erasmus’s Correspondence |
| Émile Erckmann.
1822–1899.
Alexandre Chatrian.
1826–1890. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Frédéric Loliée |
| The Dance in the Village Inn |
| A Bivouac at Ligny |
| José de Espronceda.
1808–1842. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Mary Jane Christie Serrano |
| To Spain: An Elegy |
| The Song of the Pirate |
| Alphonse Esquiros.
1812–1876. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Death of Marat |
| The Poet’s Little Home |
| Euripides.
c. 480–406 B.C. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Cranston Lawton |
| Choral Song from the ‘Bacchæ’ |
| Ion’s Song |
| Songs from the ‘Hippolytus’ |
| Hippolytus Rails at Womankind |
| Hippolytus’s Disaster |
| Hecuba Hears the Story of her Daughter’s Death |
| Medea Resolving to Slay her Children |
| Account of Alcestis’s Farewell to her Home |
| Fragments from Lost Plays |
| From ‘The Trojan Women’ |
| John Evelyn.
1620–1706. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Selections from Evelyn’s Diary |
| The Great Fire in London, and Other Entries |
| Edward Everett.
1794–1865. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Emigration of the Pilgrim Fathers |
| The Inevitable March of Improvement |
| The American Revolution |
| Johannes Ewald.
1743–1781. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by William Morton Payne |
| The Danish National Song |
| First Love |
| From ‘The Fishers’ |
| Jean-Henri Fabre.
1823–1915. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Leland Hall |
| Insects and the National Holiday |
| Frederic William Farrar.
1831–1903. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Paul before Festus and Agrippa |
| Roman Civilization under Nero |
| Christ and Pilate |
| François Fénelon.
1651–1715. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Thomas Joseph Shahan |
| To One in Perplexity |
| Dangers of a Questioning Mind |
| The Goddess Calypso |
| The Weakness of Kings |
| The Internal Dissensions of Christians |
| Guglielmo Ferrero.
1871–1942. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Arthur Livingston |
| Antony and Cleopatra |
| The United States |
| Susan Edmonstone Ferrier.
1782–1854. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Highland Better Half |
| The Reverend Mr. M’Dow: and his Courtship |
| Octave Feuillet.
1821–1890. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| A Leap in the Dark |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
1762–1814. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Edward Franklin Buchner |
| Peroration of the ‘Addresses to the German Nation’ |
| Characteristics of the Age |
| Morality and Religion |
| Elevating Power of Religion |
| Spiritual Light and Truth |
| Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century. |
Critical Introduction by Henry Walcott Boynton |
| Eugene Field.
1850–1895. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| To the Passing Saint: Christmas |
| Dutch Lullaby |
| Ipswich |
| Henry Fielding.
1707–1754. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Sir Leslie Stephen |
| Parson Adams’s Short Memory |
| A Discourse from Parson Adams |
| Tom Jones Appears in the Story with Bad Omens |
| The Characters of Mr. Square the Philosopher and of Mr. Thwackum the Divine |
| Partridge at the Playhouse |
| The Farewell |
| A Scene of the Tender Kind |
| Vincenzo da Filicaia.
1642–1707. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Time |
| Of Providence |
| To Italy |
| Firdawsī.
c. 940–1020. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by A. V. Williams Jackson |
| The Beautiful Rūdābah Discloses her Love for Zāl |
| The Death of Dara [Darius] |
| The Warrior Sām Describes his Victory over a Dragon |
| Firdawsī’s Satire on Máhmúd |
| Prince Sohráb Learns of his Birth, and Resolves to Find Rustem |
| Agnolo Firenzuola.
1493–1545. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| In the Garden |
| Of the Forehead and Temples |
| Of the Hand |
| Kuno Fischer.
1824–1907. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Richard Jones |
| The Motive to Philosophy |
| From ‘Goethe’s Faust: The Methods of Exposition’ |
| John Fiske.
1842–1901. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| Ferdinand Magellan |
| Edward Fitzgerald.
1809–1883. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole |
| Chivalry |
| Apologues Freely Translated from the ‘Mantik-ut-Tair,’ or ‘The Bird Parliament,’ of Faríd-uddín Attar |
| Chronomoros |
| Gustave Flaubert.
1821–1880. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Paul Bourget |
| The Sacred Parrot |
| Salammbô Prepares for her Journey |
| The Sacrifice to Moloch |
| Paul Fleming.
1609–1640. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| To Myself |
| On a Long and Perilous Journey |
| To My Ring |
| Jean Pierre Claris de Florian.
1755–1794. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Connoisseur |
| The Courtiers |
| The Dying Rose-Tree |
| Serenade |
| Song: ‘Lovely Idol of my soul’ |
| Emilie Flygare-Carlén.
1807–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Pursuit of the Smugglers |
| Antonio Fogazzaro.
1842–1911. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Arthur Livingston |
| From ‘The Patriot’ |
| Folk-Song. |
Critical Introduction by Francis Barton Gummere |
| Samuel Foote.
1720–1777. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| How to be a Lawyer |
| A Misfortune in Orthography |
| From the ‘Memoirs’ |
| John Ford.
1586–c. 1640. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| From ‘Perkin Warbeck’ |
| Penthea’s Dying Song |
| From ‘The Lover’s Melancholy’ |
| Anatole France.
1844–1924. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Curtis Hidden Page |
| In the Gardens |
| Child-Life |
| From the ‘Garden of Epicurus’ |
| Women and Christianity |
| Love and Hunger |
| My Child’s Bible |
| Our Lady’s Juggler |
| Riquet |
| The First Clothes |
| The Breadline |
| The Dumb Wife Cured |
| Saint Francis of Assisi.
1182–1226. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan |
| Order |
| The Canticle of the Sun |
| Saint Francis de Sales.
1567–1622. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Yetta Blaze de Bury |
| St. Paul’s Admirable Exhortation to the Supernatural and Ecstatic Life |
| An Account of the Extraordinary Death of a Gentleman who Died of Love on Mount Olivet |
| Benjamin Franklin.
1706–1790. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Bigelow |
| Of Franklin’s Family and Early Life |
| Franklin’s Journey to Philadelphia: His Arrival There |
| Franklin as a Printer |
| Rules of Health |
| The Way to Wealth |
| Speech in the Federal Convention, in Favor of Opening its Sessions with Prayer |
| On War |
| Revenge |
| The Ephemera; an Emblem of Human Life |
| A Prophecy |
| Early Marriages |
| The Art of Virtue |
| Louis Honoré Fréchette.
1839–1908. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Maurice Francis Egan |
| Our History |
| Caughnawaga |
| Louisiana |
| The Dream of Life |
| Harold Frederic.
1856–1898. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Last Rite |
| Edward Augustus Freeman.
1823–1892. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by John Bach McMaster |
| The Altered Aspects of Rome |
| The Continuity of English History |
| Race and Language |
| The Norman Council and the Assembly of Lillebonne |
| Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman.
1852–1930. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Revolt of “Mother” |
| Ferdinand Freiligrath.
1810–1876. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The Emigrants |
| The Lion’s Ride |
| Rest in the Beloved |
| Oh, Love So Long as Love Thou Canst |
| Gustav Frenssen.
1863–1945. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Esther Everett Lape |
| From ‘Klaus Hinrich Baas’ |
| Gustav Freytag.
1816–1895. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The German Professor |
| Friedrich Fröbel.
1782–1852. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Nora Archibald Smith |
| The Right of the Child |
| Evolution |
| The Laws of the Mind |
| For the Children |
| Motives |
| Aphorisms |
| Jean Froissart.
c. 1337–1410? |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by George McLean Harper |
| The Invasion of France by King Edward III., and the Battle of Crécy |
| Of the Great Assembly that the French King Made to Resist the King of England |
| Of the Battle of Caen, and How the Englishmen Took the Town |
| How the French King Followed the King of England in Beauvoisinois |
| Of the Battle of Blanche-Taque |
| Of the Order of the Englishmen at Cressy |
| The Order of the Frenchmen at Cressy, and How they Beheld the Demeanor of the Englishmen |
| Of the Battle of Cressy, August 26th, 1346 |
| James Anthony Froude.
1818–1894. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction by Charles Frederick Johnson |
| The Growth of England’s Navy |
| The Death of Colonel Goring |
| Scientific Method Applied to History |
| The Death of Thomas Becket |
| Character of Henry VIII. |
| On a Siding at a Railway Station |
| Henry Blake Fuller.
1857–1929. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| At the Head of the March |
| Margaret Fuller.
1810–1850. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| George Sand |
| Americans Abroad in Europe |
| A Character Sketch of Carlyle |
| Thomas Fuller.
1608–1661. |
Critical and Biographical Introduction |
| The King’s Children |
| A Learned Lady |
| Henry de Essex, Standard-Bearer to Henry II. |
| The Good Schoolmaster |
| On Books |
| London |
| Miscellaneous Sayings |
