title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
Hortus Vitae
Essays on the Gardening of Life | Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935 | en | | Dedication -- The garden of life -- In praise of governesses -- On going to the play -- Reading books -- Hearing music -- Receiving letters -- New friends and old -- Other friendships -- A hotel sitting-room -- In praise of courtship -- Knowing one's mind -- Against talking -- In praise of silence -- The blame of portraits -- Sere and yellow -- A stage jewel -- My bicycle and I -- Puzzles of the past -- Making presents -- Going away -- Coming back -- Losing one's train -- The hanging gardens. | | | 2008-10-07 |
In Praise of Folly
Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts | Erasmus, Desiderius, 1469-1536 | en | | | Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 [Illustrator] | | 2009-10-06 |
The Praise of a Godly Woman | Gamon, Hannibal | en | | | | Robartes of Truro, Frances Robartes, Baroness, d. 1626 -- Sermons; Church of England -- Sermons; Funeral sermons -- England; Sermons, English -- 17th century | 2008-11-16 |
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) | Various | en | | An April Aria, by Munkittrick -- "As Good as a Play", by Scudder -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, by Holmes -- The Briefless Barrister, by Saxe -- A Cable-Car Preacher, by Foss -- Cæsar's Quiet Lunch with Cicero, by Fields -- Cheer for the Consumer, by Waterman -- Comin' Home Thanksgivin', by Naylor -- A Complaint of Friends, by Hamilton -- The Coupon Bonds, by Trowbridge -- Crankidoxology, by Irwin -- Desolation, by Masson -- A Desperate Race, by Kelley -- De Stove Pipe Hole, by Drummond -- The Economical Pair, by Wells -- The Family Horse, by Cozzens -- Girl from Mercury, by Vielé -- The Grand Opera, by Baxter -- The Greco-Trojan Game, by Johnson -- How to Know the Wild Animals, by Wells -- How We Bought a Sewin' Machine and Organ, by Allen -- I Remember, I Remember, by Cary -- In a State of Sin, by Wister -- The Loafer and the Squire, by Crayon -- The Love Sonnets of a Husband, by Smiley -- Meditations of a Mariner, by Irwin -- A Modern Advantage, by Becker -- A Modern Eclogue, by Carman -- My Honey, My Love, by Harris -- Ponchus Pilut, by Riley -- Praise-God Barebones, by Cortissoz -- The Raggedy Man, by Riley -- The Shooting-Match, by Longstreet -- Sonnet of the Lovable Lass and the Plethoric Dad, by Foley -- Story of the Two Friars, by Field -- The Two Husbands, by Wells -- The Two Pedestrians, by Wells -- The Two Prisoners, by Wells -- Victory, by Masson -- The Wolf at Susan's Door, by Warner. | Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor] | American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor | 2006-07-07 |
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III | | en | | Excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson"
A Poet Defined, from the Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth
The Arrival of the Master of Ravenswood, from "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Scott
The Death of Meg Merriles, from "Guy Mannering" by Scott
A Vision of Rob Roy, from "Rob Roy" by Scott
Queen Elizabeth and Amy Robsart at Kenilworth, from "Kenilworth" by Scott
The Illness and Death of Lady Scott, from Scott's "Journal"
Does Fortune Favor Fools?, from "A Sailor's Fortune" by Coleridge
The Destiny of the United States, from the "Table Talk" by Coleridge
Nelson's Death at Trafalgar, from the "Life of Nelson" by Southey
The Death of Hofer, by Landor
Napoleon and Pericles, by Landor
Dream Children—A Reverie; Poor Relations; The Origin of Roast Pig; That We Should Rise with the Lark, from the "Essays of Elia" by Lamb
Hamlet, from the "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" by Hazlitt
Dreams of an Opium-Eater, from the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by de Quincey
Joan of Arc, from the "Biographical and Historical Essays" by de Quincey
Charles Lamb, from the "Literary Reminiscences" by de Quincey
Of His Mother's Treatment of Him, letter by Lord Byron
To His Wife after the Separation, letter by Lord Byron
To Sir Walter Scott, letter by Lord Byron
Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects, from the "Reply to Bowles" by Lord Byron
In Defense of Poetry, by Shelley
The Baths of Caracalla, from letter by Shelley
The ruins of Pompeii, from letter by Shelley
The Mutilation of the Hermæ; If Alexander Had Lived, from the "History of Greece" by Grote
Charlotte Corday, from the "History of the French Revolution" by Carlyle
The Blessedness of Work, from "Past and Present" by Carlyle
Cromwell, from "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History" by Carlyle
In Praise of Those Who Toil, from "Sart | | | 2007-07-30 |