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Plato's Dialogues; at any rate, the Apology, Crito, and Phaedo
Xenophon's Memorabilia
Aristotle's Politics
Demosthenes' De Corona.
Cicero's De Officiis, De Amicitia, and De Senectute
Plutarch's Lives
Berkeley's Human Knowledge
Descartes' Discours sur la Methode
Locke's On the Conduct of the Understanding
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Homer
Hesiod
Virgil
Maha Bharata |Epitomized in Talboys Wheeler's
Ramayana |History of India, vols. i. and ii.
The Shahnameh
The Nibelungenlied
Malory's Morte d'Arthur
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The Sheking
Kalidasa's Sakuntala or The Lost Ring
Aeschylus' Prometheus
Trilogy of Orestes
Sophocles' OEdipus
Euripides' Medea
Aristophanes' The Knights and Clouds
Horace
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (perhaps in Morris' edition; or, if
expurgated, in C. Clarke's, or Mrs. Haweis')
Shakespeare
Milton's Paradise Lost, Lycidas, Comus, and the shorter poems
Dante's Divina Commedia
Spenser's Fairie Queen
Dryden's Poems
Scott's Poems
Wordsworth (Mr. Arnold's selection)
Pope's Essay on Criticism
Essay on Man
Rape of the Lock
Burns
Byron's Childe Harold
Gray
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Herodotus
Xenophon's Anabasis and Memorabilia
Thucydides
Tacitus' Germania
Livy
Gibbon's Decline and Fall
Hume's History of England
Grote's History of Greece
Carlyle's French Revolution
Green's Short History of England
Lewes' History of Philosophy