Страница - 56 Страница - 58 Fitzgerald, Edward, Biography, [77] , [78] .Friend of Tennyson and Thackeray, [77] . His version of the Rubá'iyát made Omar's work famous, [78] , [79] . Other translations, [79] . Five-foot Shelf of Books, [xix] , [93] . Fox's Book of Martyrs, [109] . Galland, Antoine, introduced the Arabian Nights to Europe, [42] . Garrick, David, the famous English actor who, as a youth,
tramped to London with Dr. Johnson, [119] .[163] Gibbon, Edward, in advance of his age, [116] , [117] .On love of reading, [ix] . Member of Dr. Johnson's Club, [120] . Goethe, his Faust ranks with Shakespeare's best plays, [16] .Comparison between Mephistopheles and Iago, [23] . Goldsmith, Oliver comment on Dr. Johnson's method in argument, [118] . Gordon, General, influence over barbarous races, [51] , [52] .Had the Imitation in his pocket when he fell at Khartoum, [72] . Grace Abounding, one of Bunyan's minor works, [110] . Grenfell, Dr. Wilfred T., medical missionary to Labrador and
one of the most stimulating of the writers of the day, [51] .What the Bible Means to Me ; full of helpful suggestions, [52] . Gulliver's Travels, Swift's greatest work, [129] -[131] .Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms, [131] . Hamlet, the finest creative work of Shakespeare, [20] , [22] , [24] , [96] . Helen of Troy, [35] . Holy War, The, one of Bunyan's religious allegories, [112] . Homer, [31] , [33] , [34] , [35] .The Iliad leads all classical works, [33] , [34] .Many translators of the Iliad , [34] . Pictures of old Greek Life, [35] . Horace, no satisfactory translation of his odes, [31] . Houyhnhnms, The, Land in Gulliver's Travels ,
in which the Horse is King and men are vile slaves called Yahoos, [131] . Iliad, The, the greatest literary masterpiece of
antiquity, [34] .[164] Il Penseroso, one of Milton's finest lyrics, [107] . Imitation of Christ, The, by Thomas à Kempis, [39] , [64] -[71] .Appeal for the spiritual life, [70] . Best editions, [73] . Famous writers bear testimony to its influence, [71] , [72] . Its inspiration drawn directly from the Bible, [68] . Some quotations, [71] . Ivanhoe, [113] . Jefferies, Richard, a young English writer who reproduced the
very spirit of classical life, [31] .The Story of My Heart , [32] . Johnson, Dr. Samuel, [116] -[122] .Biography, [118] -[120] . His best poems, London and The Vanity of Human Wishes , [119] , [121] . His best prose, The Lives of the Poets , and Life of Richard Savage , [119] , [120] . His famous letter to Lord Chesterfield, [121] , [122] . Rare qualities of old Doctor's character, [123] . Boswell's Life of, [117] , [122] , [123] . Johnson, Esther (Stella) one of the two
women Swift loved to their cost, [129] . Jonson, Ben, [15] . Journal of the Plague Year, a work of fiction by Defoe which
surpasses any genuine picture of London's great pestilence, [127] . Jowett, Dr. Benjamin, an Oxford professor and the best Greek
scholar of his time who made the finest version of Plato's Phædo , [36] . Juan Fernandez Island, scene of Robinson Crusoe's adventures, [125] . Julius Cæsar, one of Shakespeare's greatest historical tragedies, [23] . Keats, John; without knowing Greek or Latin, he reproduced
most perfectly the spirit of classical life in his Ode to a Grecian Urn , and other
poems, [31] , [32] .[165] Kempis, Thomas à, author of The Imitation of Christ , [65] -[68] . King Lear, the tragedy of old age and children's ingratitude, [23] . Kipling, Rudyard, his great literary success at early age, [61] . Koran, The, its inferiority to the Bible, [10] . Kriemhild, the heroine in the Nibelungenlied , whose revenge
resulted in the slaughter of the Burgundian heroes, [44] . L'Allegro, one of Milton's finest lyrics, [107] . Lane, Edward W., who wrote the best translation of the
Arabian Nights , [42] . Lang, Andrew, joint author with Butcher of a prose translation
of the Iliad and the Odyssey , [34] . Laputa, the floating island in Gulliver's Travels , [131] . Leo, Brother, Professor of English Literature in St. Mary's College,
Oakland, Calif., the editor of a good cheap edition of The Imitation of Christ , [73] . Lilliput, a land in Gulliver's Travels inhabited by pygmies, [131] . Lockhart, John Gibson, Scott's son-in-law and biographer, who edited
a good edition of Don Quixote , [60] . Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, translated the Divine Comedy by
working fifteen minutes every morning, [8] . Lope de Vega, the most prolific of Spanish playwrights, [58] . Lowell, James Russell, attributed his love of learning to reading Dante, [90] . Lycidas, Milton's exquisite lament over the death of a
young friend, [107] .[166] Macaulay, Thomas Babington, his wide reading in India, [8] .Essays rich in allusions to many authors, [104] . Essay on Boswell's Johnson, [122] . Macbeth, Shakespeare's tragedy of guilty ambition, [22] , [23] . Mantell, Robert, one of the greatest living interpreters of
Shakespeare on the stage, [15] . Manzoni, [84] . Marcus Aurelius, his Meditations , [33] .Simplicity of character when master of the Roman world, [37] . Marlowe, Christopher, a contemporary of Shakespeare, whose
plays are almost unreadable today, [15] . Mazzini, Giuseppe, the the Italian patriot who regarded Dante
as the prophet of the New Italy, [84] , [89] . Medea, one of the greatest of the tragedies of Euripides, [36] . Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, one of the famous Latin
classics that is very modern in feeling, [33] . Memoirs of a Cavalier, one of Defoe's graphic romances of the time of Cromwell, [126] . Merchant of Venice, one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, [21] . Mill on the Floss, one of George Eliot's best novels, in
which Maggie Tulliver feels the influence of Thomas à Kempis, [72] . Milton, John, [100] -[103] . Moll Flanders, the romance of a London courtesan, by Defoe, [127] . Morris, William, his Sigurd the Volsung , [46] . Naishapur, the home of Omar Khayyám, [75] .[167] Nibelungenlied, The, a German epic poem of the first half of
the Thirteenth Century, [44] , [47] .Story of the murder of Siegfried and the revenge of Kriemhild told in
Wagner's operas, [45] , [46] . Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier of Persia and school friend of Omar
Khayyám, who gave the poet a pension, [75] , [76] . Odyssey, The, one of Homer's great epics, [34] . Old Testament, its splendid imagery, [10] . Omar Khayyám, author of The Rubá'iyát , [74] -[77] . Othello, Shakespeare's tragedy of jealousy, [23] .