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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 03

Name: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 03
Author: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 [Editor]; Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 [Editor]; Runkle, Lucia Gilbert (Lucia Isabella Gilbert), 1844-1922 [Editor]; Warner, George H., 1833-1919 [Editor]

作者：Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 [Editor]; Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 [Editor]; Runkle, Lucia Gilbert (Lucia Isabella Gilbert), 1844-1922 [Editor]; Warner, George H., 1833-1919 [Editor]
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LIBRARY OF THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
ANCIENT AND MODERN
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Connoisseur Edition
VOL. III.
THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. III
AVERROËS 1126-1198
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME III.
VIGNETTE PORTRAITS
Walpurga answered:--
Irma, who was somewhat annoyed by her questions, said:--
THE FIRST FALSE STEP
From 'On the Heights'
THE NEW HOME AND THE OLD ONE
From 'On the Heights'
At last he got into the boat and exclaimed:--
Hansei and Walpurga plied the oars while they sang:--
It was the old pensioner. After a while he continued:--
THE COURT PHYSICIAN'S PHILOSOPHY
From 'On the Heights'
Gunther nodded a pleased assent: but the Queen, in a sad voice, added:--
IN COUNTESS IRMA'S DIARY
From 'On the Heights'
I must find the answer in my own experience
I must go.
I shall take my journal with me, and will note down every day.
I am equal to it.
I let him have his own way.
HERE PERISHED
IRMA, COUNTESS VON WILDENORT,
I acknowledge my sin, and my repentance is sincere.
I am!
I am in God!
I was dead, and I live--I shall die and yet live.
ÉMILE AUGIER
A CONVERSATION WITH A PURPOSE
From 'Giboyer's Boy'
A SEVERE YOUNG JUDGE
From 'The Adventuress'
A CONTENTED IDLER
From 'M. Poirier's Son-in-Law'
THE FEELINGS OF AN ARTIST
From 'M. Poirier's Son-in-Law'
A CONTEST OF WILLS
From 'The Fourchambaults'
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
BY SAMUEL HART
THE GODLY SORROW THAT WORKETH REPENTANCE
From the 'Confessions'
CONSOLATION
From the 'Confessions'
Reduced facsimile of a Latin manuscript containing the
SERMONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE.
THE FOES OF THE CITY
From 'The City of God'
THE PRAISE OF GOD
From 'The City of God'
A PRAYER
From 'The Trinity'
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS
BY JAMES FRASER GLUCK
EXCERPTS FROM THE 'MEDITATIONS'
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
THE SUPREME NOBILITY OF DUTY
THE FUTURE LIFE. IMMORTALITY
THE UNIVERSAL BEAUTY OF THE WORLD
THE GOOD MAN
THE BREVITY OF LIFE
VANITY OF LIFE
DEATH
FAME
PRAYER
FAITH
PAIN
LOVE AND FORGIVENESS FOR THE EVIL-DOER
ETERNAL CHANGE THE LAW OF THE UNIVERSE
THE PERFECT LIBERTY OF THE GOOD MAN
THE HARMONY AND UNITY OF THE UNIVERSE
THE CONDUCT OF LIFE
JANE AUSTEN
AN OFFER OF MARRIAGE
From 'Pride and Prejudice'
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
From 'Pride and Prejudice'
A LETTER OF CONDOLENCE
From 'Pride and Prejudice'
MR. COLLINS TO MR. BENNET, ON HIS DAUGHTER'S ELOPEMENT WITH A RAKE
I am, dear sir, etc., etc.
A WELL-MATCHED SISTER AND BROTHER
From 'Northanger Abbey'
FAMILY DOCTORS
From 'Emma'
Mr. Woodhouse agreed to it all, but added:--
FAMILY TRAINING
From 'Mansfield Park'
PRIVATE THEATRICALS
From 'Mansfield Park'
FRUITLESS REGRETS AND APPLES OF SODOM
From 'Mansfield Park'
AVERROËS
THE AVESTA
BY A.V. WILLIAMS JACKSON
A PSALM OF ZOROASTER: YASNA 30
A PRAYER FOR KNOWLEDGE
THE ANGEL OF DIVINE OBEDIENCE
TO THE FIRE
THE GODDESS OF THE WATERS
GUARDIAN SPIRITS
AN ANCIENT SINDBAD
THE WISE MAN
INVOCATION TO RAIN
A PRAYER FOR HEALING
FRAGMENT
AVICEBRON
ON MATTER AND FORM
From the 'Fountain of Life,' Fifth Treatise
ROBERT AYTOUN
INCONSTANCY UPBRAIDED
LINES TO AN INCONSTANT MISTRESS
BURNS'S ADAPTATION
WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN
To effect this he employs--
THE BURIAL MARCH OF DUNDEE
From the 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers'
II
III
IV
THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE
From 'Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers'
THE BROKEN PITCHER
From the 'Bon Gaultier Ballads'
SONNET TO BRITAIN
A BALL IN THE UPPER CIRCLES
From "The Modern Endymion"
A HIGHLAND TRAMP
From "Norman Sinclair"
MASSIMO TAPARELLI D'AZEGLIO
A HAPPY CHILDHOOD
From 'My Recollections'
THE PRIESTHOOD
From "My Recollections"
MY FIRST VENTURE IN ROMANCE
From 'My Recollections'
BABER
BY EDWARD S. HOLDEN
FROM BABER'S 'MEMOIRS'
TRANSACTIONS OF THE YEAR 904 [A. D. 1498-99]
His narrative goes on:--
It was at this time that I composed the following verses:--
BABRIUS
THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN
JUPITER AND THE MONKEY
THE MOUSE THAT FELL INTO THE POT
THE FOX AND THE GRAPES
THE CARTER AND HERCULES
THE YOUNG COCKS
THE ARAB AND THE CAMEL
THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE SWALLOW
THE HUSBANDMAN AND THE STORK
THE PINE
THE WOMAN AND HER MAID-SERVANTS
THE LAMP
THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE
FRANCIS BACON
BY CHARLTON T. LEWIS
OF TRUTH
From the 'Essays'
OF REVENGE
From the 'Essays'
OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION
From the 'Essays'
OF TRAVEL
From the 'Essays'
OF FRIENDSHIP
From the 'Essays'
DEFECTS OF THE UNIVERSITIES
From 'The Advancement of Learning' (Book ii.)
TO MY LORD TREASURER BURGHLEY
From 'Letters and Life,' by James Spedding
IN PRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE
From 'Letters and Life,' by James Spedding
TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR, TOUCHING THE HISTORY OF BRITAIN
From 'Letters and Life,' by James Spedding
Your Lps. very humbly and much bounden
FR. BACON.
TO VILLIERS ON HIS PATENT AS VISCOUNT
From 'Letters and Life,' by James Spedding
GORHAMBURY, August 12th, 1616
CHARGE TO JUSTICE HUTTON
From 'Letters and Life,' by James Spedding
A PRAYER, OR PSALM
From 'Letters and Life,' by James Spedding
FROM THE 'APOPHTHEGMS'
TRANSLATION OF THE 137TH PSALM
THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE
WALTER BAGEHOT
BY FORREST MORGAN
THE VIRTUES OF STUPIDITY
From 'Letters on the French Coup d'État'
REVIEW WRITING
From 'The First Edinburgh Reviewers'
LORD ELDON
From 'The First Edinburgh Reviewers'
TASTE
From 'Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning'
CAUSES OF THE STERILITY OF LITERATURE
THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS
From 'William Cowper'
ON EARLY READING
From 'Edward Gibbon'
THE CAVALIERS
From 'Thomas Babington Macaulay'
MORALITY AND FEAR
From 'Bishop Butler'
THE TYRANNY OF CONVENTION
From 'Sir Robert Peel'
HOW TO BE AN INFLUENTIAL POLITICIAN
From 'Bolingbroke'
CONDITIONS OF CABINET GOVERNMENT
From 'The English Constitution'
WHY EARLY SOCIETIES COULD NOT BE FREE
From 'Physics and Politics'
BENEFITS OF FREE DISCUSSION IN MODERN TIMES
From 'Physics and Politics'
ORIGIN OF DEPOSIT BANKING
From 'Lombard Street'
JENS BAGGESEN
A COSMOPOLITAN
From 'The Labyrinth'
PHILOSOPHY ON THE HEATH
From 'The Labyrinth'
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN I WAS VERY LITTLE
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
FROM 'FESTUS'
LIFE
THE PASSING-BELL
THOUGHTS
DREAMS
CHORUS OF THE SAVED
From the Conclusion
JOANNA BAILLIE
WOO'D AND MARRIED AND A'
IT WAS ON A MORN WHEN WE WERE THRANG
FY, LET US A' TO THE WEDDING
THE WEARY PUND O' TOW
FROM 'DE MONTFORT': A TRAGEDY
ACT V--SCENE III
TO MRS. SIDDONS
A SCOTCH SONG
SONG, 'POVERTY PARTS GOOD COMPANY'
For an old Scotch Air
THE KITTEN
HENRY MARTYN BAIRD
THE BATTLE OF IVRY
SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
HUNTING IN ABYSSINIA
From 'The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia'
THE SOURCES OF THE NILE
From 'The Albert Nyanza'
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR
THE PLEASURES OF READING
From his Rectorial Address before the University of Glasgow
THE BALLAD
BY F.B. GUMMERE
ROBIN HOOD AND GUY OF GISBORNE[8]
THE HUNTING OF THE CHEVIOT
JOHNIE COCK
SIR PATRICK SPENS
THE BONNY EARL OF MURRAY[76]
MARY HAMILTON
BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL
BESSIE BELL AND MARY GRAY[85]
THE THREE RAVENS[90]
LORD RANDAL
EDWARD[97]
THE TWA BROTHERS
BABYLON; OR THE BONNIE BANKS O' FORDIE
CHILDE MAURICE[102]
THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL
SWEET WILLIAM'S GHOST
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
BY WILLIAM P. TRENT
THE MEETING IN THE CONVENT
From 'The Duchess of Langeais'
II
III
A PASSION IN THE DESERT
FROM 'THE COUNTRY DOCTOR'
THE NAPOLEON OF THE PEOPLE
GEORGE BANCROFT
BY AUSTIN SCOTT
THE BEGINNINGS OF VIRGINIA
From 'History of the United States'
MEN AND GOVERNMENT IN EARLY MASSACHUSETTS
From 'History of the United States'
KING PHILIP'S WAR
From 'History of the United States'
D. Appleton and Company, New York.
THE NEW NETHERLAND
From 'History of the United States'
D. Appleton and Company, New York.
FRANKLIN
From 'History of the United States'