JANE AUSTEN 1775-1817 An Offer of Marriage ('Pride and Prejudice') Mother and Daughter (same) A Letter of Condolence (same) A Well-Matched Sister and Brother ('Northanger Abbey') Family Doctors ('Emma') Family Training ('Mansfield Park') Private Theatricals (same) Fruitless Regrets and Apples of Sodom (same) AVERROËS 1126-1198 THE AVESTA (by A.V. Williams Jackson) Psalm of Zoroaster Prayer for Knowledge The Angel of Divine Obedience To the Fire The Goddess of the Waters Guardian Spirits An Ancient Sindbad The Wise Man Invocation to Rain Prayer for Healing Fragment AVICEBRON 1028-?1058 On Matter and Form ('The Fountain of Life') ROBERT AYTOUN 1570-1638 Inconstancy Upbraided Lines to an Inconstant Mistress (with Burns's Adaptation) WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN 1813-1865 Burial March of Dundee ('Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers') Execution of Montrose (same) The Broken Pitcher ('Bon Gaultier Ballads') Sonnet to Britain. "By the Duke of Wellington" (same) A Ball in the Upper Circles ('The Modern Endymion') A Highland Tramp ('Norman Sinclair') MASSIMO TAPARELLI D'AZEGLIO 1798-1866 A Happy Childhood ('My Recollections') The Priesthood (same) My First Venture in Romance (same) BABER (by Edward S. Holden) 1482-1530 From Baber's 'Memoirs' BABRIUS First Century A.D. The North Wind and the Sun Jupiter and the Monkey The Mouse that Fell into the Pot The Fox and the Grapes The Carter and Hercules The Young Cocks The Arab and the Camel The Nightingale and the Swallow The Husbandman and the stork The Pine The Woman and Her Maid-Servants The Lamp The Tortoise and the Hare FRANCIS BACON (by Charlton T. Lewis) 1561-1626 Of Truth ('Essays') Of Revenge (same) Of Simulation and Dissimulation (same) Of Travel (same) Of Friendship (same) Defects of the Universities ('The Advancement of Learning') To My Lord Treasurer Burghley In Praise of Knowledge To the Lord Chancellor To Villiers on his Patent as a Viscount Charge to Justice Hutton A Prayer, or Psalm From the 'Apophthegms' Translation of the 137th Psalm The World's a Bubble