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| [A Mysterious Visitor.] Thomas Carlyle | [2] |
| [A Scene from William Tell.] Sheridan Knowles | [8] |
| [Address to the Survivors of the Battle of Bunker Hill.] Daniel Webster | [17] |
| [The American Union.] Daniel Webster | [21] |
| [Recessional.] Rudyard Kipling | [23] |
| [William Hickling Prescott.] | [26] |
| [Storming the Fortress.] William Hickling Prescott | [31] |
| [A Country Sunday.] Joseph Addison | [38] |
| [The King of Glory] | [43] |
| [The Man without a Country.] Edward Everett Hale | [44] |
| [Love of Country.] Sir Walter Scott | [55] |
| [The Heroine of Nancy] | [55] |
| [Humanity.] William Cowper | [62] |
| [An Iceberg.] Richard Henry Dana, Jr. | [63] |
| [John Milton] | [66] |
| [Death of Samson.] John Milton | [71] |
| [Song on a May Morning.] John Milton | [73] |
| [On his Blindness.] John Milton | [74] |
| [A Cheerful Spirit.] Sir John Lubbock | [75] |
| [The Relief of Lucknow] | [76] |
| [The Bivouac of the Dead.] Theodore O’Hara | [79] |
| [Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard.] Thomas Gray | [82] |
| [Belshazzar’s Feast] | [89] |
| [The Battle of Quebec.] Francis Parkman | [94] |
| [The Starling.] Laurence Sterne | [100] |
| [The Belfry Pigeon.] Nathaniel Parker Willis | [105] |
| [Lady Una and the Lion.] Edmund Spenser | [107] |
| [Purity of Character] | [112] |
| [Delights of Reading.] Sir John Lubbock | [113] |
| [Break, Break, Break.] Alfred Tennyson | [116] |
| [William Shakespeare] | [117] |
| [The Three Caskets.] William Shakespeare | [123] |
| [Quotations from Shakespeare] | [132] |
| [Shakespeare’s Poetry.] Francis Jeffrey | [133] |
| [Home.] Henry W. Grady | [135] |
| [A Palace in a Valley.] Dr. Samuel Johnson | [139] |
| [True Heroism] | [146] |
| [The Pen.] Edward Bulwer Lytton | [147] |
| [Character of Washington.] George Bancroft | [148] |
| [National Hymn.] Samuel Francis Smith | [155] |
| [The Lark in the Gold-Fields.] Charles Reade | [157] |
| [Sweet Home.] John Howard Payne | [165] |
| [Antony’s Address to the Romans.] Shakespeare | [165] |
| [The Two Roads.] Jean Paul Richter | [170] |
| [Napoleon’s Greatness.] William Ellery Channing | [173] |
| [The Battle of Trafalgar.] Robert Southey | [177] |
| [The Chambered Nautilus.] Oliver Wendell Holmes | [195] |
| [A Picnic by the Baltic] | [197] |
| [Nature.] Emerson | [205] |
| [Henry Esmond.] William M. Thackeray | [212] |
| [A Good Daughter.] John Gorham Palfrey | [222] |
| [The Spirit of the Air.] John Ruskin | [225] |
| [Thanatopsis.] William Cullen Bryant | [228] |
| [Joan of Arc.] Thomas De Quincey | [231] |
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| [Guide to Pronunciation] | [241] |
| [Word List] | [242] |