Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 09

Literature -- Collections

The Bargain ('The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl')
    From 'Woman's Love and Life'


  WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING                         1780-1842     3513

    The Passion for Power ('The Life and Character of
        Napoleon Bonaparte')
    The Causes of War ('Discourse before the Congregational
        Ministers of Massachusetts')
    Spiritual Freedom ('Discourse on Spiritual Freedom')


  GEORGE CHAPMAN                                  1559?-1634    3523

    Ulysses and Nausicaa (Translation of Homer's Odyssey)
    The Duke of Byron is Condemned to Death ('Tragedy of
        Charles, Duke of Byron')


  FRANCOIS RENE AUGUSTE CHATEAUBRIAND             1768-1848     3531

    Christianity Vindicated ('The Genius of Christianity')
    Description of a Thunder-Storm in the Forest ('Atala')


  THOMAS CHATTERTON                               1752-1770     3539

    Final Chorus from 'Goddwyn'
    The Farewell of Sir Charles Baldwin to His Wife ('The
        Bristowe Tragedie')
    Mynstrelles Songe
    An Excelente Balade of Charitie
    The Resignation


  GEOFFREY CHAUCER                                13--?-1400    3551

                        BY THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY

    Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales'
    From the Knight's Tale
    From the Wife of Bath's Tale
    From the Pardoner's Tale
    The Nun's Priest's Tale
    Truth--Ballade of Good Counsel


  ANDRE CHENIER                                   1762-1794     3601

                         BY KATHARINE HILLARD

    The Young Captive
    Ode


  VICTOR CHERBULIEZ                               1829-         3609

    The Silent Duel ('Samuel Brohl and Company')
    Samuel Brohl Gives Up the Play (same)


  LORD CHESTERFIELD                               1694-1773     3625

    From 'Letters to His Son':
        Concerning Manners; The Control of One's Countenance;
        Dress as an Index to Character;
        Some Remarks on Good Breeding
    The Choice of a Vocation


  THE LITERATURE OF CHINA                                       3629

                         BY ROBERT K. DOUGLAS

    Selected Maxims of Morals, Philosophy of Life, Character,
        Circumstances, etc. (From the Chinese Moralists)


  RUFUS CHOATE                                    1799-1859     3649

                          BY ALBERT STICKNEY

    The Puritan in Secular and Religious Life (From Address at
        Ipswich Centennial, 1834)
    The New-Englander's Character (same)
    Of the American Bar (From Address before Cambridge Law School)
    Daniel Webster (From Eulogy at Dartmouth College)


  ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM                              347-407      3665

                            BY JOHN MALONE

    That Real Wealth is from Within
    On Encouragement During Adversity ('Letters to Olympias')
    Concerning the Statutes (Homily)


  MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO                           106-43 B.C.   3675

                      BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 09

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