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| [Aulus Gellius] | Second Century A.D. | [6253] |
| [From 'Attic Nights':] Origin, and Plan of the Book; The Vestal Virgins; The Secrets of the Senate; Plutarch and his Slave; Discussion on One of Solon's Laws; The Nature of Sight; Earliest Libraries; Realistic Acting; The Athlete's End | |
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| [Gesta Romanorum] | | [6261] |
| [Theodosius the Emperoure] | |
| Moralite | |
| [Ancelmus the Emperour] | |
| Moralite | |
| [How an Anchoress was Tempted by the Devil] | |
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| [Edward Gibbon] | 1737-1794 | [6271] |
| BY W. E. H. LECKY |
| [Zenobia] | |
| [Foundation of Constantinople] | |
| [Character of Constantine] | |
| [Death of Julian] | |
| [Fall of Rome] | |
| [Silk] | |
| [Mahomet's Death and Character] | |
| [The Alexandrian Library] | |
| [Final Ruin of Rome] | |
| All from the 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' | |
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| [William Schwenck Gilbert] | 1836- | [6333] |
| [Captain Reece] | |
| [The Yarn of the Nancy Bell] | |
| [The Bishop of Rum-ti-foo] | |
| [Gentle Alice Brown] | |
| [The Captain and the Mermaids] | |
| All from the 'Bab Ballads' | |
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| [Richard Watson Gilder] | 1844- | [6347] |
| [Two Songs from 'The New Day'] | |
| ["Rose-Dark the Solemn Sunset"] | |
| The Celestial Passion | |
| [Non Sine Dolore] | |
| [On the Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln] | |
| [From 'The Great Remembrance'] | |
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| [Giuseppe Giusti] | 1809-1850 | [6355] |
| [Lullaby ('Gingillino')] | |
| [The Steam Guillotine] | |
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| [William Ewart Gladstone] | 1809- | [6359] |
| [Macaulay ('Gleanings of Past Years')] | |
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| [Edwin Lawrence Godkin] | 1831- | [6373] |
| [The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy ('Problems of Modern Democracy')] | |
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| [Goethe] | 1749-1832 | [6385] |
| BY EDWARD DOWDEN |
| [From 'Faust,' Shelley's Translation] | |
| [Scenes from 'Faust', Bayard Taylor's Translation] | |
| [Mignon's Love and Longing ('Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship')] | |
| [Wilhelm Meister's Introduction to Shakespeare (same)] | |
| [Wilhelm Meister's Analysis of Hamlet (same)] | |
| [The Indenture (same)] | |
| [The Harper's Songs (same)] | |
| [Mignon's Song (same)] | |
| [Philina's Song (same)] | |
| [Prometheus] | |
| [Wanderer's Night Songs] | |
| [The Elfin-King] | |
| [From 'The Wanderer's Storm Song'] | |
| [The Godlike] | |
| [Solitude] | |
| [Ergo Bibamus!] | |
| [Alexis and Dora] | |
| [Maxims and Reflections] | |
| [Nature] | |
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| [Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol] | 1809-1852 | [6455] |
| BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD |
| [From 'The Inspector'] | |
| [Old-Fashioned Gentry ('Mirgorod')] | |
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| [Carlo Goldoni] | 1707-1793 | [6475] |
| BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON |
| [First Love and Parting ('Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni')] | |
| [The Origin of Masks in the Italian Comedy (same)] | |
| [Purists and Pedantry (same)] | |
| [A Poet's Old Age (same)] | |
| [The Café] | |
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| [Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt] | 1819-1887 | [6493] |
| [Assar and Mirjam ('Love Stories from Many Countries')] | |
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| [Oliver Goldsmith] | 1728-1774 | [6501] |
| BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY |
| [The Vicar's Family Become Ambitious ('The Vicar of Wakefield')] | |
| [New Misfortunes: But Offenses are Easily Pardoned Where There is Love at Bottom (same)] | |
| [Pictures from 'The Deserted Village'] | |
| [Contrasted National Types ('The Traveller')] | |
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| [Ivan Aleksandrovitch Goncharóf] | 1812- | [6533] |
| BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE |
| [Oblómof] | |
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| [The Brothers De Goncourt] | | [6549] |
| Edmond | 1822-1896 | |
| Jules | 1830-1870 | |
| [Two Famous Men ('Journal of the De Goncourts')] | |
| [The Suicide ('Sister Philomène')] | |
| [The Awakening ('Renée Mauperin')] | |
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| [Edmund Gosse] | 1849- | [6565] |
| [February in Rome] | |
| [Desiderium] | |
| [Lying in the Grass] | |
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| [Rudolf von Gottschall] | 1823- | [6571] |
| [Heinrich Heine ('Portraits and Studies')] | |
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| [John Gower] | 1325?-1408 | [6579] |
| [Petronella ('Confessio Amantis')] | |
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| [Ulysses S. Grant] | 1822-1885 | [6593] |
| BY HAMLIN GARLAND |
| [Early Life ('Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant')] | |
| [Grant's Courtship (same)] | |
| [A Texan Experience (same)] | |
| [The Surrender of General Lee (same)] | |
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| [Henry Grattan] | 1746-1820 | [6615] |
| [On the Character of Chatham] | |
| [Of the Injustice of Disqualification of Catholics (Speech in Parliament)] | |
| [On the Downfall of Bonaparte (Speech in Parliament)] | |
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| [Thomas Gray] | 1716-1771 | [6623] |
| BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP |
| [Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard] | |
| [Ode on the Spring] | |
| [On a Distant Prospect of Eton College] | |
| [The Bard] | |
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| [The Greek Anthology] | | [6637] |
| BY TALCOTT WILLIAMS |
| On the Athenian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On theLacedæmonian Dead at Platæa (Simonides); On a Sleeping Satyr (Plato); A Poet's Epitaph (Simmias ofThebes); Worship in Spring (Theætetus); Spring on the Coast (Leonidas of Tarentum); A Young Hero'sEpitaph (Dioscorides); Love (Posidippus); Sorrow's Barren Grave (Heracleitus); To a Coy Maiden (Asclepiades);The Emptied Quiver (Mnesalcus); the Tale of Troy (Alpheus); Heaven Hath its Stars (MarcusArgentarius); Pan of the Sea-Cliff (Archias); Anacreon's Grave (Antipater of Sidon); Rest at Noon(Meleager); "In the Spring a Young Man's Fancy" (Meleager); Meleager's Own Epitaph (Meleager); Epilogue(Philodemus); Doctor and Divinity (Nicarchus); Love's Immortality (Strato); As the Flowers of theField (Strato); Summer Sailing (Antiphilus); The Great Mysteries (Crinagoras); To Priapus of the Shore(Mæcius); The Common Lot (Ammianus); "To-morrow, and To-morrow" (Macedonius); The Palace Garden(Arabius); The Young Wife (Julianus Ægyptius); A Nameless Grave (Paulus Silentiarius); Resignation(Joannes Barbucallus); The House of the Righteous (Macedonius); Love's Ferriage (Agathias); On a Fowler(Isidorus). Anonymous: Youth and Riches; The Singing Reed; First Love again Remembered; Slave andPhilosopher; Good-by to Childhood; Wishing; Hope and Experience; The Service of God; The Pure inHeart; The Water of Purity; Rose and Thorn; A Life's Wandering | |