Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 16
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The Celestial Passion
Non Sine Dolore
On the Life Mask of Abraham Lincoln
From 'The Great Remembrance'
Giuseppe Giusti
1809-1850
6355
Lullaby ('Gingillino')
The Steam Guillotine
William Ewart Gladstone
1809-
6359
Macaulay ('Gleanings of Past Years')
Edwin Lawrence Godkin
1831-
6373
The Duty of Criticism in a Democracy ('Problems of Modern Democracy')
Goethe
1749-1832
6385
BY EDWARD DOWDEN
From 'Faust,' Shelley's Translation
Scenes from 'Faust', Bayard Taylor's Translation
Mignon's Love and Longing ('Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship')
Wilhelm Meister's Introduction to Shakespeare (same)
Wilhelm Meister's Analysis of Hamlet (same)
The Indenture (same)
The Harper's Songs (same)
Mignon's Song (same)
Philina's Song (same)
Prometheus
Wanderer's Night Songs[Pg vii]
The Elfin-King
From 'The Wanderer's Storm Song'
The Godlike
Solitude
Ergo Bibamus!
Alexis and Dora
Maxims and Reflections
Nature
Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol
1809-1852
6455
BY ISABEL F. HAPGOOD
From 'The Inspector'
Old-Fashioned Gentry ('Mirgorod')
Carlo Goldoni
1707-1793
6475
BY WILLIAM CRANSTON LAWTON
First Love and Parting ('Memoirs of Carlo Goldoni')
The Origin of Masks in the Italian Comedy (same)
Purists and Pedantry (same)
A Poet's Old Age (same)
The Café
Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt
1819-1887
6493
Assar and Mirjam ('Love Stories from Many Countries')
Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774
6501
BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY
The Vicar's Family Become Ambitious ('The Vicar of Wakefield')
New Misfortunes: But Offenses are Easily Pardoned Where There is Love at Bottom (same)
Pictures from 'The Deserted Village'
Contrasted National Types ('The Traveller')
Ivan Aleksandrovitch Goncharóf
1812-
6533
BY NATHAN HASKELL DOLE
Oblómof
The Brothers De Goncourt[Pg viii]
6549
Edmond
1822-1896
Jules
1830-1870
Two Famous Men ('Journal of the De Goncourts')
The Suicide ('Sister Philomène')
The Awakening ('Renée Mauperin')
Edmund Gosse
1849-
6565
February in Rome
Desiderium
Lying in the Grass
Rudolf von Gottschall
1823-
6571
Heinrich Heine ('Portraits and Studies')
John Gower
1325?-1408
6579
Petronella ('Confessio Amantis')
Ulysses S. Grant
1822-1885
6593
BY HAMLIN GARLAND
Early Life ('Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant')
Grant's Courtship (same)
A Texan Experience (same)
The Surrender of General Lee (same)
Henry Grattan
1746-1820
6615
On the Character of Chatham
Of the Injustice of Disqualification of Catholics (Speech in Parliament)
On the Downfall of Bonaparte (Speech in Parliament)
Thomas Gray
1716-1771
6623
BY GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP
Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard
Ode on the Spring
On a Distant Prospect of Eton College
The Bard
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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