B
Bacon, Francis, [19]
Bagehot, Walter, [30]
Baillie, Joanna, [203]
Bailey, Philip J., [97]
Balfour, Arthur James, [168]
Ballantine, James, [137]
Balzac, Honoré de, [116]
Bangs, John Kendrick, [124]
Bancroft, George, [220]
Barbauld, Anna Lætitia, [142]
Barham, Richard, [265]
Baring-Gould, Sabine, [23]
Barlowe, Joel, [69]
Barnfield, Richard, [310]
Barrie, James Matthew, [112]
Barnes, William, [43]
Barrow, Isaac, [140]
Barton, Bernard, [25]
Baxter, Richard, [248]
Bayly, Thomas Haynes, [225]
Beattie, James, [232]
Beaumarchais, P. A. C. de, [20]
Beaumont, Francis, [311]
Beddoes, Thomas L., [165]
Beecher, Henry Ward, [146]
Beers, Ethel L., [11]
Beethoven, Ludwig von, [87]
Belloc, Hilaire, [169]
Benjamin, Park, [183]
Bennett, Arnold, [124]
Bentham, Jeremy, [38]
Bentley, Richard, [21]
Benton, Thomas Hart, [63]
Béranger, Pierre Jean de, [188]
Berkeley, George, [62]
Bernard of Clairvaux, [300]
Bernard of Cluny, [300]
Besant, Walter, [184]
Beyle, Marie Henri, [20]
Bierce, Ambrose, [134]
Birrell, Augustine, [17]
Bismarck, Otto E. L. von, [79]
Black, William, [242]
Blackie, John Stuart, [171]
Blackmore, Sir Richard, [135]
Blackstone, Sir William, [158]
Blair, Robert, [93]
Blake, William, [257]
Blanc, Charles, [250]
Blanchard, Samuel L., [116]
Blossington, Countess of, [199]
Blind, Mathilde, [68]
Bloomfield, Robert, [263]
Boker, George Henry, [222]
Boëthius, [299]
Boileau-Despréaux, [239]
Bolingbroke, Viscount, [219]
Boner, John Henry, [25]
Borrow, George, [155]
Bossuet, Jacques B., [213]
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Bowring, Sir John, [227]
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Brandes, George, [31]
Bridges, Robert, [231]
Bright, John, [251]
Brillat-Savarin, [79]
Brontë, Charlotte, [95]
Brooks, Phillips, [270]
Brougham, Lord, [209]
Browne, Charles Farrar, [100]
Browne, Sir Thomas, [228]
Brownell, Henry Howard, [32]
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, [58]
Browning, Robert, [111]
Brunetière, Ferdinand, [164]
Bryant, William Cullen, [240]
Bryce, James, [113]
Buchanan, Robert W., [188]
Buckle, Henry Thomas, [255]
Buffon, Comte de, [201]
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, [122]
Bungay, George W., [166]
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Bunyan, John, [252]
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Burke, Edmund, [10]
Burleigh, William Henry, [29]
Burney, Frances, [138]
Burns, Robert, [20]
Burroughs, John, [82]
Burton, Robert, [33]
Bushnell, Horace, [90]
Butler, Samuel, [314]
Byrom, John, [51]
Byron, Lord, [19]
C
Cable, George W., [224]
Cæsar, Julius, [292]
Caine, Hall, [116]
Calderon, Pedro, [14]
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Callimachus, [291]
Calvin, John, [158]
Calverley, Charles Stuart, [275]
Campbell, John, Duke of Argyle, [103]
Campbell, Thomas, [169]
Camoëns, [305]
Canning, George, [89]
Carew, Thomas, [307]
Carlyle, Thomas, [264]
Carman, Bliss, [91]
Carroll, Lewis, [22]
Cary, Phoebe, [205]
Cato, the Censor, [291]
Catullus, [293]
Cawein, Madison J., [69]
Cellini, Benvenuto, [239]
Cervantes, [306]
Chalmers, Thomas, [65]
Chamisso, Adelbert von, [25]
Channing, William E., [86]
Chapman, George, [307]
Chateaubriand, Viscomte de, [200]
Chatterton, Thomas, [252]
Chaucer, Geoffrey, [302]
Chénier, André Marie de, [235]
Cherbuliez, Victor, [164]
Chesterfield, Earl of, [211]
Chesterton, Gilbert, [126]
Child, Lydia, M., [36]
Choate, Rufus, [219]
Chorley, Henry F., [271]
Churchill, Charles, [32]
Chrysostom, St. John, [299]
Cibber, Colley, [242]
Cicero, [292]
Clare, John, [160]
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, [42]
Clarke, McDonald, [141]
Clay, Henry, [89]
Cleveland, Grover, [66]
Cobbett, William, [60]
Clough, Arthur Hugh, [3]
Coleridge, Hartley, [209]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, [230]
Colman, George, Jr., [230]
Colman, George, Sr., [101]
Collins, Mortimer, [149]
Collins, William, [278]
Collins, William Wilkie, [7]
Comenius, [72]
Comines, Philippe de, [303]
Comte, Auguste, [16]
Confucius, [287]
Congreve, William, [83]
Conrad, Joseph, [265]
Cooke, Rose Terry, [40]
Cooper, James Fenimore, [205]
Copernicus, [42]
Corneille, Pierre, [133]
Cousin, Victor, [257]
Cowley, Abraham, [315]
Cowper, William, [256]
Crabbe, George, [276]
Craik, Dinah M., [94]
Cranch, Christopher P., [60]
Crashaw, Richard, [314]
Crawford, Francis Marion, [175]
Creasy, Sir Edward S., [18]
Crébillon, Prosper de, [11]
Crockett, David, [186]
Crockett, Samuel R., [212]
Cunningham, Allan, [266]
Curtis, George William, [46]
Curtius, Ernst, [199]
D
Dana, Richard Henry, [250]
Dante, [301]
Darley, George, [156]
Darmesteter, Agnes M. F. R., [50]
Darmesteter, James, [73]
Darwin, Charles Robert, [37]
Daudet, Alphonse, [115]
Davenant, Sir William, [313]
Davies, Sir John, [56]
Davies, W. H., [94]
Davis, Thomas Osborne, [226]
Davy, Sir Humphry, [272]
Deffand, Madame du, [318]
Defoe, Daniel, [316]
Dekker, Thomas, [309]
Deland, Margaret, [45]
De Ligne, [113]
Demosthenes, [290]
Denham, Sir John, [312]
DeQuincey, Thomas, [186]
Descartes, René, [75]
De Vere, Sir Aubrey, [194]
DeVere, Aubrey Thomas, [8]
Dewey, Orville, [73]
Dibdin, Charles, [64]
Dickens, Charles, [33]
Diderot, Denis, [221]
Dillon, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon, [316]
Diogenes, Laertius, [298]
Disraeli, Benjamin, [274]
Disraeli, Isaac, [117]
Dobell, Sydney, [83]
Dobson, Austin, [16]
Doddridge, Philip, [147]
Dodge, Mary Mapes, [274]
Dodsley, Robert, [318]
Domett, Alfred, [118]
Donne, John, [310]
Dorr, Julia C. R., [38]
Doudney, Sarah, [13]
Dowden, Edward, [109]
Doyle, A. Conan, [120]
Drake, Joseph Rodman, [178]
Draper, John W., [110]
Drayton, Michael, [308]
Drummond, Henry, [187]
Dryden, John, [180]
Dufferin, Lady, [322]
Dumas, Alexandre, the Elder, [167]
Dumas, Alexandre, the Younger, [169]
Du Maurier, George, [59]
Dunlop, John, [70]
Dwight, John S., [115]
Dwight, Timothy, [115]
Dyer, Edward, [313]
E
Ebers, George, [55]
Edgeworth, Maria, [3]
Edwards, Amelia B., [134]
Edwards, Jonathan, [221]
Egan, Maurice Francis, [122]
Eggleston, Edward, [268]
Eichendorff, Joseph von, [61]
Eliot, George, [254]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [123]
English, Thomas D., [148]
Epictetus, [296]
Erasmus, [303]
Euripides, [288]
Evelyn, John, [235]
Everett, David, [73]
Everett, Edward, [89]
F
Faber, Frederick W., [148]
Falconer, William, [36]
Farrar, Frederick W., [178]
Fawcett, Henry, [192]
Fénélon, [177]
Feuillet, Octave, [181]
Fichte, Johann G., [118]
Field, Eugene, [200]
Fielding, Henry, [96]
Fields, James T., [281]
Finch, Francis M., [136]
Fiske, John, [74]
Fitzgerald, Edward, [75]
Flaubert, Gustave, [269]
Fletcher, John, [273]
Foote, Samuel, [319]
Ford, John, [311]
Forster, John, [80]
Foster, John, [207]
Fouché, Joseph, [119]
France, Anatole, [92]
Francis, Sir Philip, [231]
Franklin, Benjamin, [13]
Freneau, Philip, [4]
Frere, J. H., [119]
Froebel, Friedrich, [94]
Froude, James A., [97]
Fuller, Margaret, [121]
Fuller, Thomas, [141]
G
Galsworthy, John, [184]
Garland, Hamlin, [206]
Garnett, Richard, [49]
Garth, Samuel, [316]
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth C., [215]
Gautier, Théophile, [196]
Gay, John, [318]
Gibbon, Edward, [100]
Gilbert, William S., [252]
Gilder, Richard Watson, [34]
Gilfillan, Robert, [156]
Giusti, Giuseppi, [114]
Gladstone, William E., [279]
Goethe, [193]
Goldoni, Carlo, [47]
Goldsmith, Oliver, [244]
Gordon, Adam Lindsay, [234]
Gosse, Edmund, [210]
Gower, John, [302]
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, [101]
Grattan, Henry, [154]
Gray, Thomas, [278]
Greeley, Horace, [30]
Greene, Robert, [308]
Griffin, Gerald, [269]
Grillparzer, Franz, [12]
Grimm, Jacob, [5]
Griswold, R. W., [39]
Grote, George, [251]
Guérin, Eugénie de, [9]
Guizot, François, [220]
H
Haeckel, Ernst, [40]
Haggard, Sir Henry Rider, [143]
Hale, Edward E., [81]
Haliburton, Thomas C., [213]
Hallam, Henry, [157]
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, [157]
Hall, Bishop, [153]
Hamilton, Alexander, [9]
Hamerton, Philip G., [202]
Hardy, Thomas, [132]
Hare, A. J. C., [63]
Hare, Julius C., [204]
Harris, Joel, Chandler, [266]
Harrison, Frederic, [227]
Harte, Francis Bret, [191]
Havergal, Frances R., [271]
Hawkins, Anthony Hope, [35]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [155]
Hay, John, [223]
Hayne, Paul Hamilton, [4]
Hazlitt, William, [87]
Hearn, Lafcadio, [147]
Heber, Reginald, [95]
Hegel, Georg W. F., [192]
Heine, Heinrich, [269]
Helps, Sir Arthur, [159]
Hemans, Felicia, [213]
Henley, William E., [190]
Henry, Patrick, [125]
Heraclitus, [287]
Herbert, George, [80]
Herder, Johann G. von, [191]
Herodotus, [288]
Herrick, Robert, [189]
Hesiod, [285]
Heyse, Paul Ludwig, [64]
Heywood, Thomas, [311]
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, [275]
Hildreth, Richard, [143]
Hippocrates, [288]
Hobbes, Thomas, [83]
Hogg, James, [263]
Holland, Josiah Gilbert, [167]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [195]
Home, John, [209]
Homer, [285]
Hood, Thomas, [121]
Hook, Theodore, E., [211]
Hooker, Richard, [307]
Hopkins, Mark, [31]
Hopkinson, Joseph, [248]
Horace, [293]
Horne, Richard Henry, [3]
Housman, Alfred E., [71]
Howe, Julia Ward, [123]
Howell, James, [312]
Howells, William Dean, [55]
Hughes, Thomas, [229]
Hugo, Victor, [47]
Humboldt, Alexander von, [204]
Hume, David, [100]
Hunt, Leigh, [229]
Hutcheson, Francis, [179]
Huxley, Thomas Henry, [110]
I
Ibsen, Henrik, [67]
Ingelow, Jean, [65]
Ingersoll, Robert G., [181]
Irving, Washington, [81]
J
Jackson, Helen Fiske, [228]
James, Henry, [91]
Jami, [303]
Jefferson, Thomas, [80]
Jerome, J. K., [108]
Jerrold, Douglas, [5]
Johnson, Samuel, [207]
Jonson, Ben, [310]
Joubert, Joseph, [111]
Juvenal, [296]