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| Genre/Form: | Collections |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maud Wilder Goodwin; Blanche Wilder Bellamy |
| ISBN: | 9780836963571 0836963571 |
| OCLC Number: | 810091296 |
| Notes: | Arranged for students over fourteen years old. Originally published 1890. |
| Description: | 361 pages : illustrations. |
| Contents: | Sentiment and story. -- The choir invisible / George Eliot -- Courage! / Arthur Hugh Clough -- Each and all / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The goblet of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The nobly born / Anonymous -- Aristocracy / Thomas Carlyle -- Emily Bronte's last hymn -- Carcassonne / Jean Gustave Nadaud [J.R. Thompson, translator] -- He giveth his beloved sleep / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant -- Intimations of immortality / William Wordsworth -- O, yet we trust [extract] / Alfred Tennyson -- Duties of the scholar / Matthew Arnold -- Power / John Ruskin -- Gifts / Emma Lazarus -- A liberal education / Thomas H. Huxley -- The two streams / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Quality / Robert Underwood Johnson -- The stirrup-cup / Sidney Lanier -- Shakespeare / John Sterling -- Dante Alighieri [extract] / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Life and death [extracts] / Omar Khayyam [Edward Fitzgerald, translator] -- Albert the good / Alfred Tennyson -- Princes ; The lady / John Ruskin -- Saint Symphorien / Rose Terry Cooke -- Saint Brandan / Matthew Arnold -- Sonnet: on first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats -- Adonais / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Hester / Charles Lamb -- Lucy / William Wordsworth -- Kilvany / John Hay -- The present and future faiths [arranged] / Phillips Brooks -- Dost thou look back? [extract] / Alfred Tennyson -- Ruth / Thomas Hood -- Pagan and Christian [extract] / Matthew Arnold -- The influence of Athens / Thomas Babington Macaulay -- Prayer / Jeremy Taylor -- After death / Edwin Arnold -- Elegy written in a country churchyard / Thomas Gray -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- On his friends / Meskin Aldaramy [John D. Carlyle, translator] -- Letter to Lord Chesterfield / Samuel Johnson -- The universal prayer / Alexander Pope -- Under the portrait of Milton / John Dryden -- L'allegro ; The demeanor of books ; On his blindness / John Milton -- Law / Richard Hooker -- Memory / Thomas Fuller -- Truth ; Satan [extract, Paradise Lost] / John Milton -- Is this a dagger? [extract, Macbeth] ; If 'twere done when 'tis done [extract, Macbeth] ; Portia to Shylock [extract, Merchant of Venice] / William Shakespeare -- The pilgrim [extract] / Walter Raleigh -- To sleep / Sir Philip Sidney -- To be or not to be [extract, Hamlet] / William Shakespeare -- Studies / Francis Bacon -- Sir Lancelot / Sir Thomas Mallory -- Sweet is the rose ; At court / Edmund Spenser -- The knight / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Cato's soliloquy on immortality / Joseph Addison -- Plato's apology for Socrates [extracts] / Plato [Anonymous, trans.]. Art and nature. -- The coliseum / Lord Byron -- The coliseum / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Rome / Lord Byron -- The catacombs / Emilio Castelar -- Morning in London / William Wordsworth -- Venice / Lord Byron -- To the lion of St. Mark / Joaquin Miller -- San Miniato / John Sterling -- Hymn before sunrise, in the vale of Chamouni / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The Bastille and the starling / Laurence Sterne -- The old bridge at Florence / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Melrose by moonlight / Walter Scott -- On the picture of The Last Supper, at Milan [extracts] / William W. Story -- Lines on a picture by Leonardo da vinci, called The virgin of the rocks / Charles Lamb -- The Escurial / Théophile Gautier [Charlotte Fiske Bates, translator] -- Ode to a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Greece / Lord Byron -- The antique at Paris / Friedrich Schiller -- Description of the Venus of Milo [extracts] / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Ozymandias of Egypt ; To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Fisher song / John Greenleaf Whittier -- To night / Blanco White -- To a swallow building under the eaves at Craigenputtock / Jane Welsh Carlyle -- The willow / Elizabeth Akers -- Folding of the flocks / Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher -- The ocean / Lord Byron. Loyalty and heroism ; Camp and council-hall. -- Nations and humanity / George William Curtis -- Heroes / Edna Dean Proctor -- Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The high tide at Gettysburg / Will H. Thompson [an ex-Confederate soldier] -- The death of Lincoln [extract] / Henry Ward Beecher -- My captain [on the death of Lincoln] / Walt Whitman -- The irrepressible conflict [extracts] / William H. Seward -- Ode on decorating the graves of the Confederate dead / Henry Timrod -- Democracy / James Russell Lowell -- The Confederate soldier / Henry W. Grady -- Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- On the Civil War in America ; Greatness based on morality [extract] / John Bright -- Commemoration ode [extract] ; Slavery / James Russell Lowell -- Liberty in government / John Stuart Mill -- Free speech / Gerrit Smith -- National injustice / Theodore Parker -- Destiny of our country / Joseph Story -- Kansas / Charles Sumner -- Charles Sumner attacked in the Senate / Anson Burlingame -- Liberty and union / Daniel Webster -- Inaugural address of Thomas Jefferson [extract] -- Supposed speech of John Adams on the Declaration of Independence / Daniel Webster -- The Indian / Edward Everett -- Magnanimity in politics / Edmund Burke -- On the American Revolution / Earl of Chatham -- The answer of Pitt to Walpole / [reported by Samuel Johnson] -- The impeachment of Warren Hastings / Edmund Burke -- The lost leader / Robert Browning -- Hervé Riel / Robert Browning -- To the Lord General, Cromwell / John Milton -- Strafford's defence against the charge of high treason [extract] -- On the funeral of Charles First, at night, in St. George's Chapel, Windsor / William L. Bowles -- The three liberties / John Pym -- The cavalier's song / William Motherwell -- The revenge : a ballad of the fleet / Alfred Tennyson -- From The golden speech of Queen Elizabeth [extract] -- The invincible armada / Friedrich Schiller [Edward Bulwer Lytton, translator] -- Elizabeth at Tilbury / Francis T. Palgrave -- Speech to the army at Tilbury / Queen Elizabeth -- Henry V at the siege of Harfleur / William Shakespeare -- The battle of Agincourt / Michael Drayton -- The crowning of Arthur / Alfred Tennyson -- The new republic / Leon Gambetta [translated by the editors] -- The exile's hope / Victor Hugo -- The king's diary / John W. Chadwick -- Marie Antoinette / Edmund Burke -- Proclamation to the army of Italy / Napoleon Bonaparte -- Waterloo / Lord Byron -- Napoleon's final return [abridged] / Elizabeth Barret Browning -- The guillotine / Charles Dickens -- Bonivard / Alexandre Dumas [translated and arranged by the editors] -- Chillon / Lord Byron -- Cleopatra at Actium / Thomas K. Hervey -- The gladiators [arranged] / Emilio Castelar -- Spartacus to the gladiators at Capua / Elijah Kellogg -- Catiline expelled / Cicero -- Catiline, on hearing his sentence of banishment / George Croly -- Oration on the crown / Demosthenes -- Glory of Athens [extract from the Speech of Pericles] / Thucydides -- Pheidippides / Robert Browning -- Ulysses / Alfred Tennyson -- The defiance of Hector and Ajax [from The Iliad] / Homer [Alexander Pope, translator]. Song and laughter. The minstrel / Edna Dean Proctor -- The poet's song / Alfred Tennyson -- Hunting-song / Walter Scott -- The greenwood / William L. Bowles -- L'inconnue / Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- How sleep the brave / William Collins -- Farewell; but whenever you welcome the hour / Thomas Moore -- Tears, idle tears / Alfred Tennyson -- What's a' the steer, Kimmer [Jacobite song] ; The vicar of Bray / Anonymous -- Alexander's feast / John Dryden -- My true-love hath my heart / Sir Philip Sidney -- Sweet-and-twenty / William Shakespeare -- To Lucasta, on going to the wars / Richard Lovelace -- To Cynthia / Ben Jonson -- Bounding the United States / John Fiske -- Too late / Fitz-Hugh Ludlow -- Heroism in housekeeping / Jane Welsh Carlyle -- Letting in light [extract] / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Sleep / Miguel de Cervantes -- The art of book-keeping / Thomas Hood -- To a mummy / Horace Smith -- Snobs [extracts] / William Makepeace Thackeray -- The new guides to faith and belief [abridged] / Anonymous -- A cold in the head / Charles Lamb -- Columbus crossing the Atlantic / Arthur Hugh Clough -- Mrs. Malaprop's idea of education / Richard Brinsley Sheridan -- To my empty purse / Geoffrey Chaucer. Holidays and holy days. New Year's eve [extract] / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- A New Year's dream [extract] / Jean Paul Richter -- St. Agnes's eve / Alfred Tennyson -- Comparison of Washington and Napoleon [selection for Washington's birthday] / François de Chateaubriand [translated and arranged by the editors] -- Comparison of George Washington with George the Fourth, called the first gentleman of Europe [arranged, selection for Washington's birthday] / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Washington's inaugural address [selection for Washington's birthday] -- To keep a true Lent / George Herbert -- Good Friday / Girolamo Savonarola -- An Easter hymn / Thomas Blackburn -- A Thanksgiving to God / Robert Herrick -- Thanksgiving day / Henry Ward Beecher -- Hymn on the Nativity / John Milton -- Christmas-bells [extract] / Alfred Tennyson -- The Christmas carol / William Wordsworth -- The birth of Christ [extract] / Alfred Tennyson -- New prince, new pomp / Robert Southwell -- Christmas song / Edmund Hamilton Sears -- The mistletoe bough / Thomas Haynes Bayly -- Christmas at Fezziwig's warehouse [arranged] / Charles Dickens -- The end of the play / William Makepeace Thackeray. |
| Series Title: | Granger index reprint series. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Blanche Wilder Bellamy and Maud Wilder Goodwin. |
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