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

Literature -- Collections

Of the Offices of Literature and Poetry ('Oration for the
        Poet Archias')
    Honors Proposed for the Dead Statesman Sulpicius
        (Ninth Philippic)
    Old Friends Better than New ('Dialogue on Friendship')
    Honored Old Age ('Dialogue on Old Age')
    Death is Welcome to the Old (same)
    Great Orators and Their Training ('Dialogue on Oratory')
    Letters: To Tiro; To Atticus
    Sulpicius Consoles Cicero after His Daughter Tullia's Death
    Cicero's Reply to Sulpicius
    A Homesick Exile
    Cicero's Vacillation in the Civil War
    Cicero's Correspondents:
        Caesar to Cicero; Caesar to Cicero; Pompey to Cicero;
        Caelius in Rome to Cicero in Cilicia; Matins to Cicero
    The Dream of Scipio


  THE CID                                         1045?-1099    3725

                       BY CHARLES SPRAGUE SMITH

    From 'The Poem of My Cid':
        Leaving Burgos; Farewell to His Wife at San Pedro de
        Cardena; Battle Scene; The Challenges; Conclusion


  EARL OF CLARENDON (Edward Hyde)                 1609-1674     3737

    The Character of Lord Falkland


  MARCUS A. H. CLARKE                             1846-1881     3745

    How a Penal System can Work ('His Natural Life')
    The Valley of the Shadow of Death (same)


  MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS                               1740-1815     3756

    Speculations on New-Year's Day (The Wandsbecker Bote)
    Rhine Wine
    Winter
    Night Song


  HENRY CLAY                                      1777-1852     3761

                          BY JOHN R. PROCTER

    Public Spirit in Politics (Speech in 1849)
    On the Greek Struggle for Independence (Speech in 1824)
    South-American Independence as Related to the United States
        (Speech in 1818)
    From the Valedictory to the Senate in 1842
    From the Lexington 'Speech on Retirement to Private Life'


  CLEANTHES                                       331-232 B.C.  3784

    Hymn to Zeus


  SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS (Mark Twain)           1835-         3787

    The Child of Calamity ('Life on the Mississippi')
    A Steamboat Landing at a Small Town (same)
    The High River: and a Phantom Pilot (same)
    An Enchanting River Scene (same)
    The Lightning Pilot (same)
    An Expedition against Ogres ('A Connecticut Yankee in
        King Arthur's Court')
    The True Prince and the Feigned One ('The Prince and
        the Pauper')


  ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH                              1819-1861     3821

                        BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON

    There is No God
    The Latest Decalogue
    To the Unknown God
    Easter Day--Naples, 1849
    It Fortifies My Soul to Know
    Say Not, The Struggle Naught Availeth
    Come Back
    As Ships Becalmed
    The Unknown Course
    The Gondola
    The Poet's Place in Life
    On Keeping within One's Proper Sphere ('The Bothie of
        Tober-na-Vuolich')
    Consider It Again


  SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE                         1772-1834     3843

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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