title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Comic Latin Grammar
A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue | Leigh, Percival, 1813-1889 | en | | | Leech, John, 1817-1864 [Illustrator] | Latin language -- Grammar -- Humor; English wit and humor | 2009-07-19 |
Irish Books and Irish People | Gwynn, Stephen Lucius, 1864-1950 | en | | | | Irish literature -- History and criticism; Civilization, Celtic, in literature; National characteristics, Irish; Language and culture -- Ireland; Irish wit and humor; Ireland -- Social life and customs | 2007-08-08 |
An apology for the study of northern antiquities | Elstob, Elizabeth, 1683-1756 | en | This text is the introduction to the author's "Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue" | | Peake, Charles H. [Author of introduction, etc.] | English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100; Hickes, George, 1642-1715; Germanic languages | 2005-03-11 |
Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus | Jacob, Violet, 1863-1946 | en | | | | Scots language -- Dialects -- Scotland -- Angus -- Texts; Angus (Scotland) -- Poetry | 2006-03-06 |
Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. | O'Grady, Standish, 1846-1928 | en | | | | Epic literature, Irish -- History and criticism; Tales -- Ireland -- History and criticism; Civilization, Celtic, in literature; Language and culture -- Ireland; Bards and bardism | 2005-05-01 |
Essays on Life, Art and Science | Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902 | en | | Introduction Quis Desiderio? -- Ramblings in Cheapside -- The Aunt, The Nieces, and the Dog -- How to make the best of life -- The Sanctuary of Montrigone -- A Medieval Girl School -- Art in the Valley of Saas -- Thought and Language -- The Deadlock in Darwinism. | Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander), 1866-1919 [Author of introduction, etc.] | Art criticism; Science; Evolution | 2002-10-01 |
Ceres' Runaway and Other Essays | Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922 | en | | Ceres' runaway -- Vanquished man -- Northern fancy -- Laughter -- Harlequin Mercutio -- Little language -- Anima Pellegrina! -- Sea wall -- Daffodil -- Addresses -- Audience -- Tithonus -- Tow path -- Tethered constellations -- Popular burlesque -- Dry autumn -- Plaid -- Two burdens -- Unready -- Child of tumult -- Child of subsiding tumult | | | 1998-04-01 |
The Glory of English Prose
Letters to My Grandson | Coleridge, Stephen, 1854-1936 | en | | | | Coleridge, Stephen, 1854-1936; English prose literature -- History and criticism; English language -- Great Britain -- Style | 2004-10-18 |
The Abenaki Indians
Their Treaties of 1713 & 1717, and a Vocabulary | Kidder, Frederic, 1804-1885 | en | | | | Abenaki Indians; Abenaki Indians -- Treaties; Abenaki language | 2008-05-10 |
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect | Barnes, William, 1801-1886 | en | | | | English language -- Dialects -- England -- Dorset -- Texts; Dialect poetry, English -- England -- Dorset; Country life -- Poetry; Dorset (England) -- Languages -- Dictionaries; Dorset (England) -- Poetry | 2007-06-09 |
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery | Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881 | en | | | | Wales -- Description and travel; Borrow, George Henry, 1803-1881 -- Travel -- Wales | 1996-09-01 |
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems | Moorman, Frederic William, 1872-1919 | en | | | | English literature -- England -- Yorkshire; English language -- Dialects -- England -- Yorkshire; English poetry -- England -- Yorkshire; Dialect poetry, English -- England -- Yorkshire; Yorkshire (England) -- Poetry; Yorkshire (England) -- Languages -- History -- Sources | 2001-10-01 |
The Task of Social Hygiene | Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939 | en | | Introduction -- The changing status of women -- The new aspect of the woman’s movement -- The emancipation of women in relation to romantic love -- The significance of a falling birth-rate -- Eugenics and love -- Religion and the child -- The problem of sexual hygiene -- Immorality and the law -- The war against war -- The problem of an international language -- Individualism and socialism. | | Women -- Social and moral questions; Sexual ethics; Eugenics | 2007-07-17 |
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | en | | The loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton -- On the decay of the art of lying -- About magnanimous-incident literature -- The grateful poodle -- The benevolent author -- The grateful husband -- Punch, brothers, punch -- The great revolution in Pitcairn -- The canvasser's tale -- An encounter with an interviewer -- Paris notes -- Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany -- Speech on the babies -- Speech on the weather -- Concerning the American language -- Rogers. | | Short stories; Essays | 2004-09-16 |
The A, B, C. With the Church of England Catechism | Unknown | en | | | | Church of England -- Catechisms -- Early works to 1800; Catechisms, English -- Early works to 1800; Readers (Primary) -- Early works to 1800; English language -- Alphabet -- Juvenile literature -- Early works to 1800 | 2009-11-25 |
Europa's Fairy Book | Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916 | en | | Cinder-Maid -- All Change -- The King of the Fishes -- Scissors -- Beauty and the Beast -- Reynard and Bruin -- The Dancing Water, Singing Apple, and Speaking Bird -- The Language of Animals -- The Three Soldiers -- A Dozen at a Blow -- The Earl of Cattenborough -- The Swan Maidens -- Androcles and the Lion -- Day Dreaming -- Keep Cool -- The Master Thief -- The Unseen Bridegroom -- The Master-Maid -- A Visitor from Paradise -- Inside Again -- John the True -- Johnnie and Grizzle -- The Clever Lass -- Thumbkin. | Batten, John Dickson, 1860-1932 [Illustrator] | | 2008-07-10 |
Essays and Tales | Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719 | en | | Public credit -- Household Superstitions -- Opera Lions -- Women and Wives -- The Italian Opera -- Lampoons -- True and False Humour -- Sa Ga Yan Qua Rash Tow's Impressions of London -- The Vision of Marraton -- Six Papers on Wit -- Friendship -- Chevy-Chase (Two Papers) -- A Dream of the Painters -- Spare Time (Two Papers) -- Censure -- The English Language -- The Vision of Mirza -- Genius -- Theodosius and Constantia -- Good Nature -- A Grinning Match -- Trust in God. | Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 [Editor] | Fiction; Essays; Short stories | 2001-09-01 |
Harvard Classics Volume 28
Essays English and American | | en | | Jonathan Swift by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
What is a University?; Site of a University; University Life at Athens by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
The Study of Poetry by MATTHEW ARNOLD
Sesame: of Kings' Treasuries; Lilies: of Queens' Gardens by JOHN RUSKIN
John Milton by WALTER BAGEHOT
Science and Culture by THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
Race and Language by EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN
Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
The Poetic Principle by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Walking by HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Abraham Lincoln; Democracy by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. | Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 [Editor] | English essays; American essays | 2007-06-29 |
The Crimson Fairy Book | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 | en | | Lovely Ilonka -- Lucky Luck -- The Hairy Man -- To your Good Health! -- The Story of the Seven Simons -- The Language of Beasts -- The Boy who could keep a Secret -- The Prince and the Dragon -- Little Wildrose -- Tiidu the Piper -- Paperarello -- The Gifts of the Magician -- The Strong Prince -- The Treasure Seeker -- The Cottager and his Cat -- The Prince who would seek Immortality -- The Stone-cutter -- The Gold-bearded Man -- Tritill, Litill, and the Birds -- The Three Robes -- The Six Hungry Beasts -- How the Beggar Boy turned into Count Piro -- The Rogue and the Herdsman -- Eisenkopf -- The Death of Abu Nowas and of his Wife -- Motikatika -- Niels and the Giants -- Shepherd Paul -- How the wicked Tanuki was punished -- The Crab and the Monkey -- The Horse Gullfaxi and the Sword Gunnfoder -- The Story of the Sham Prince, or the Ambitious Tailor -- The Colony of Cats -- How to find out a True Friend -- Clever Maria -- The Magic Kettle. | | Fairy tales; Folklore | 2000-12-01 |
Told in the Coffee House
Turkish Tales | | en | | How the Hodja saved Allah -- Better is the folly of woman than the wisdom of man -- The Hanoum and the unjust Cadi -- What happended to Hadji, a merchant of the Bezestan -- How the junkman travelled to find treasure in his own yard -- How Chapkin Halid became chief detective -- How cobbler Ahmet became the chief astrologer -- The wise son of Ali Pasha -- The merciful Khan -- King Kara-Kush of Bithynia -- The prayer rug and the dishonest steward -- The goose, the eye, the daughter and the arm -- The forty wise men -- How the priest knew that it would snow -- Who was the thirteenth son? -- Paradise sold by the yard -- Jew turned Turk -- The metamorphosis -- The Calif Omar -- Kalaidji Avram of Balata -- How Mehmet Ali Pasha of Egypt administered justice -- How the farmer learned to cure his wife, a Turkish Aesop -- The language of birds -- The swallow's advice -- We know not what the dawn may bring forth -- Old men made young -- The bribe -- How the Devil lost his wager -- The effects of Raki. | | Tales -- Turkey; Folklore -- Turkey | 2009-12-02 |
Essays | Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson, 1847-1922 | en | | WINDS AND WATERS: Ceres' Runaway -- Wells -- Rain -- The Tow Path -- The Tethered Constellations -- Rushes and Reeds -- IN A BOOK ROOM: A Northern Fancy -- Pathos -- Anima Pellegrina! -- A Point of Biography -- The Honours of Mortality -- Composure -- The Little Language -- A Counterchange -- Harlequin Mercutio -- COMMENTARIES: Laughter -- The Rhythm of Life -- Domus Angusta -- Innocence and Experience -- The Hours of Sleep -- Solitude -- Decivilized -- WAYFARING: The Spirit of Place -- Popular Burlesque -- Have Patience, Little Saint -- At Monastery Gates -- The Sea Wall -- ARTS: Tithonus -- Symmetry and Incident -- The Plaid -- The Flower -- Unstable Equilibrium -- Victorian Caricature -- The Point of Honour -- THE CHEARFUL LADIE OF THE LIGHT: The Colour of Life -- The Horizon -- In July -- Cloud -- Shadows -- WOMEN AND BOOKS: The Seventeenth Century -- Mrs. Dingley -- Prue -- Mrs. Johnson -- Madame Roland -- THE DARLING YOUNG: Fellow Travellers with a Bird -- The Child of Tumult -- The Child of Subsiding Tumult -- The Unready -- That Pretty Person -- Under the Early Stars -- The Illusion of Historic Time. | | English essays; English literature | 1998-08-01 |
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) | Various | en | | Araminta and the Automobile, by Loomis -- At Aunty's House, by Riley -- The Backsliding Brother, by Stanton -- Biggs' Bar, by Sutherland -- A Bookworm's Plaint, by Scollard -- Breitmann in Politics, by Leland -- A Concord Love Song, by Roche -- Contentment, by Holmes -- The Demon of the Study, by Whittier -- Der Oak Und Der Vine, by Adams -- A Double-Dyed Deceiver, by O. Henry -- Dum Vivimus Vigilamus, by Paul -- The Evidence in the Case of Smith vs. Jones, by Clemens -- Fall Styles in Faces, by Irwin -- "Festina Lente", by Burdette -- The Genial Idiot Discusses Leap Year, by Bangs -- The Great Prize Fight, by Clemens -- Had a Set of Double Teeth, by Day -- The Height of the Ridiculous, by Holmes -- Her Brother: Enfant Terrible, by Sabin -- Hezekiah Bedott's Opinion, by Whicher -- His Grandmother's Way, by Stanton -- The Invisible Prince, by Harland -- The Jackpot, by Ironquill -- Jacob, by Cary -- Johnny's Pa, by Nesbit -- A Lay of Ancient Rome, by Ybarra -- Little Bopeep and Little Boy Blue, by Peck -- Love Song, by Leland -- Maxims, by Franklin -- The Meeting, by Riser -- Mister Rabbit's Love Affair, by Stanton -- A Mother of Four, by Tompkins -- A Mothers' Meeting, by Bridges -- Nevada Sketches, by Clemens -- A New Year Idyl, by Field -- An Old-Time Singer, by Stanton -- Oncl' Antoine on 'Change, by Amsbary -- Our Hired Girl, by Riley -- Plain Language from Truthful James, by Harte -- A Poe-'em of Passion, by Lummis -- Possession, by Lampton -- The Real Diary of a Real Boy, by Shute -- The Reason, by Ironquill -- Rubaiyat of Mathieu Lattellier, by Amsbary -- Settin' by the Fire, by Stanton -- A Shining Mark, by Ironquill -- "There's a Bower of Bean-Vines", by Cary -- To Bary Jade, by Adams -- Tom's Money, by Spofford -- The Trial that Job Missed, by Harris -- Trouble-Proof, by Sabin -- Uncle Bentley and the Roosters, by Carruth -- Unsatisfied Yearning, by Munkittrick -- What Lack We Yet, by Burdette -- When Lovely Woman, by Cary -- The Whisperer, by Ironquill -- Why Wait for Death and Time | Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor] | American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor | 2008-01-26 |