PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR. THOMAS CARLYLE.
A SCENE FROM WILLIAM TELL. SHERIDAN KNOWLES.
ADDRESS TO THE SURVIVORS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. DANIEL WEBSTER.
THE AMERICAN UNION. DANIEL WEBSTER.
RECESSIONAL. A Victorian Ode. RUDYARD KIPLING.
WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT.
STORMING THE FORTRESS. WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT.
A COUNTRY SUNDAY. Joseph Addison.
THE KING OF GLORY.
THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY. [ Abridged. ] EDWARD EVERETT HALE.
LOVE OF COUNTRY. SIR WALTER SCOTT.
THE HEROINE OF NANCY.
HUMANITY. WILLIAM COWPER.
AN ICEBERG. RICHARD H. DANA, Jr.
JOHN MILTON.
DEATH OF SAMSON. JOHN MILTON. Scene In Gaza.
MAY MORNING. JOHN MILTON.
ON HIS BLINDNESS. JOHN MILTON.
A CHEERFUL SPIRIT. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK.
THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW.
THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD. THEODORE O'HARA.
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD. THOMAS GRAY.
BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST.
THE BATTLE OF QUEBEC. FRANCIS PARKMAN.
THE STARLING. LAURENCE STERNE.
THE BELFRY PIGEON. NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS.
LADY UNA AND THE LION. EDMUND SPENSER.
PURITY OF CHARACTER.
DELIGHTS OF READING. SIR JOHN LUBBOCK.
BREAK, BREAK, BREAK. ALFRED TENNYSON.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
THE THREE CASKETS. [ Abridged. ] WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
QUOTATIONS FROM SHAKESPEARE.
SHAKESPEARE'S POETRY. FRANCIS JEFFREY.
HOME. HENRY W. GRADY.
A PALACE IN A VALLEY. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON.
TRUE HEROISM.
THE PEN. EDWARD BULWER LYTTON.
CHARACTER OF WASHINGTON. GEORGE BANCROFT.
NATIONAL HYMN. SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH.
THE LARK IN THE GOLD-FIELDS. CHARLES READE.
SWEET HOME. JOHN HOWARD PAYNE.
ANTONY'S ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS. SHAKESPEARE.
THE TWO ROADS. JEAN PAUL RICHTER.
NAPOLEON'S GREATNESS. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING.
THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR. [ Abridged. ] ROBERT SOUTHEY.
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
A PICNIC BY THE BALTIC. [ Abridged. ]
NATURE. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
TWO EXTRACTS FROM "HENRY ESMOND." WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
A GOOD DAUGHTER. JOHN GORHAM PALFREY.
THE SPIRIT OF THE AIR. [ Abridged. ] JOHN RUSKIN.
THANATOPSIS. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. For an account of Bryant's life see Book IV.
JOAN OF ARC. [ Abridged. ] THOMAS DE QUINCEY.
GUIDE TO PRONUNCIATION.
WORD LIST.
Contents.
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