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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Index of Authors
  3. 3Anonymous Books Cited
  4. 4Geoffrey Chaucer. 1328-1400
  5. 5Thomas À Kempis. 1380-1471
  6. 6John Fortescue. Circa 1395-1485
  7. 7John Skelton. Circa 1460-1529
  8. 8John Heywood. [8:7] Circa 1565
  9. 9Thomas Tusser. Circa 1515-1580
  10. 10Richard Edwards. Circa 1523-1566
  11. 11Edward Dyer. Circa 1540-1607
  12. 12Bishop Still (John). 1543-1607
  13. 13Thomas Sternhold. Circa 1549
  14. 14Mathew Roydon. Circa 1586
  15. 15Sir Edward Coke. 1549-1634
  16. 16George Peele. 1552-1598
  17. 17Sir Walter Raleigh. 1552-1618
  18. 18Edmund Spenser. 1553-1599
  19. 19Richard Hooker. 1553-1600
  20. 20John Lyly. Circa 1553-1601
  21. 21Sir Philip Sidney. 1554-1586
  22. 22Cyril Tourneur. Circa 1600
  23. 23Lord Brooke. 1554-1628
  24. 24George Chapman. 1557-1634
  25. 25William Warner. 1558-1609
  26. 26Sir Richard Holland
  27. 27Sir John Harrington. 1561-1612
  28. 28Samuel Daniel. 1562-1619
  29. 29Michael Drayton. 1563-1631
  30. 30Christopher Marlowe. 1565-1593
  31. 31William Shakespeare. 1564-1616
  32. 32Francis Bacon. 1561-1626
  33. 33Thomas Middleton. — — -1626
  34. 34Sir Henry Wotton. 1568-1639
  35. 35Richard Barnfield. — — -1570
  36. 36Sir John Davies. 1570-1626
  37. 37Martyn Parker. — — -1630
  38. 38Dr. John Donne. 1573-1631
  39. 39Ben Jonson. [177:4] 1573-1637
  40. 40John Webster. — — -1638
  41. 41Thomas Dekker. — — -1641
  42. 42Bishop Hall. 1574-1656
  43. 43John Fletcher. 1576-1625
  44. 44Robert Burton. 1576-1640
  45. 45Sir Thomas Overbury. 1581-1613
  46. 46Philip Massinger. 1584-1640
  47. 47Thomas Heywood. — — -1649
  48. 48John Selden. 1584-1654
  49. 49William Drummond. 1585-1649
  50. 50Francis Beaumont. 1586-1616
  51. 51Beaumont and Fletcher — ( Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.)
  52. 52George Wither. 1588-1667
  53. 53Thomas Hobbes. 1588-1679
  54. 54Thomas Carew. 1589-1639
  55. 55William Browne. 1590-1645
  56. 56Robert Herrick. 1591-1674
  57. 57Francis Quarles. 1592-1644
  58. 58George Herbert. 1593-1632
  59. 59Izaak Walton. 1593-1683
  60. 60James Shirley. 1596-1666
  61. 61Samuel Butler. 1600-1680
  62. 62Sir William Davenant. 1605-1668
  63. 63Sir Thomas Browne. 1605-1682
  64. 64Edmund Waller. 1605-1687
  65. 65Thomas Fuller. 1608-1661
  66. 66John Milton. 1608-1674
  67. 67Edward Hyde Clarendon. 1608-1674
  68. 68Sir John Suckling. 1609-1641
  69. 69Marquis of Montrose. 1612-1650
  70. 70Sir John Denham. 1615-1668
  71. 71Richard Crashaw. Circa 1616-1650
  72. 72Richard Lovelace. 1618-1658
  73. 73Abraham Cowley. 1618-1667
  74. 74Ralph Venning. 1620(?)-1673
  75. 75Andrew Marvell. 1620-1678
  76. 76Joseph Henshaw. [263:1] — — -1678
  77. 77Henry Vaughan. 1621-1695
  78. 78Algernon Sidney. 1622-1683
  79. 79William Walker. 1623-1684
  80. 80John Bunyan. 1628-1688
  81. 81Sir William Temple. 1628-1699
  82. 82John Tillotson. 1630-1694
  83. 83William Stoughton. 1631-1701
  84. 84John Dryden. 1631-1701
  85. 85Earl of Roscommon. 1633-1684
  86. 86Thomas Ken. 1637-1711
  87. 87Sir John Powell. — — -1713
  88. 88Isaac Newton. 1642-1727
  89. 89Earl of Rochester. 1647-1680
  90. 90Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire. 1649-1720
  91. 91Thomas Otway. 1651-1685
  92. 92Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. 1653-1716
  93. 93Nathaniel Lee. 1655-1692
  94. 94John Norris. 1657-1711
  95. 95John Dennis. 1657-1734
  96. 96Thomas Southerne. 1660-1746
  97. 97Mathew Henry. [282:4] 1662-1714
  98. 98Richard Bentley. 1662-1742
  99. 99Henry Carey. 1663-1743
  100. 100Daniel Defoe. 1663-1731
  101. 101Tom Brown. 1663-1704
  102. 102Matthew Prior. 1664-1721
  103. 103John Pomfret. 1667-1703
  104. 104Jonathan Swift. 1667-1745
  105. 105William Congreve. 1670-1729
  106. 106Samuel Garth. [295:3] 1670-1719
  107. 107Colley Cibber. 1671-1757
  108. 108Sir Richard Steele. 1671-1729
  109. 109Joseph Addison. 1672-1719
  110. 110Nicholas Rowe. 1673-1718
  111. 111Isaac Watts. 1674-1748
  112. 112Sir Robert Walpole. 1676-1745
  113. 113Viscount Bolingbroke. 1678-1751
  114. 114George Farquhar. 1678-1707
  115. 115Thomas Parnell. 1679-1717
  116. 116Barton Booth. 1681-1733 — Edward Young. 1684-1765
  117. 117Bishop Berkeley. 1684-1753
  118. 118Jane Brereton. 1685-1740
  119. 119Aaron Hill. 1685-1750
  120. 120Thomas Tickell. 1686-1740
  121. 121Samuel Madden. 1687-1765
  122. 122Alexander Pope. 1688-1744
  123. 123John Gay. 1688-1732
  124. 124Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 1690-1762
  125. 125Charles Macklin. 1690-1797
  126. 126John Byrom. 1691-1763
  127. 127Louis Theobald. 1691-1744
  128. 128James Bramston. — — -1744
  129. 129Earl of Chesterfield. 1694-1773
  130. 130Matthew Green. 1696-1737
  131. 131Richard Savage. 1698-1743
  132. 132Robert Blair. 1699-1747
  133. 133James Thomson. 1700-1748
  134. 134John Dyer. 1700-1758
  135. 135Philip Doddridge. 1702-1751
  136. 136John Wesley. 1703-1791
  137. 137Benjamin Franklin. [359:4] 1706-1790
  138. 138Nathaniel Cotton. 1707-1788
  139. 139Henry Fielding. 1707-1754
  140. 140William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. 1708-1778
  141. 141Samuel Johnson. 1709-1784
  142. 142Lord Lyttleton. 1709-1773
  143. 143Edward Moore. 1712-1757
  144. 144Laurence Sterne. 1713-1768
  145. 145William Shenstone. 1714-1763
  146. 146John Brown. 1715-1766
  147. 147James Townley. 1715-1778
  148. 148Thomas Gray. 1716-1771
  149. 149David Garrick. 1716-1779
  150. 150William B. Rhodes. Circa 1790
  151. 151Mrs. Greville. [389:1] Circa 1793
  152. 152Horace Walpole. 1717-1797
  153. 153William Collins. 1720-1756
  154. 154James Merrick. 1720-1769
  155. 155Samuel Foote. 1720-1777
  156. 156James Fordyce. 1720-1796
  157. 157Mark Akenside. 1721-1770
  158. 158Tobias Smollett. 1721-1771
  159. 159Sir William Blackstone. 1723-1780
  160. 160John Home. 1724-1808
  161. 161William Mason. 1725-1797
  162. 162Richard Gifford. 1725-1807
  163. 163Arthur Murphy. 1727-1805
  164. 164Jane Elliott. 1727-1805
  165. 165Oliver Goldsmith. 1728-1774
  166. 166Thomas Warton. 1728-1790
  167. 167Thomas Percy. 1728-1811
  168. 168Edmund Burke. 1729-1797
  169. 169Charles Churchill. 1731-1764
  170. 170William Cowper. 1731-1800
  171. 171Erasmus Darwin. 1731-1802
  172. 172Beilby Porteus. 1731-1808
  173. 173George Washington. 1732-1799
  174. 174Lord Thurlow. 1732-1806
  175. 175John Dickinson. 1732-1808
  176. 176W. J. Mickle. 1734-1788
  177. 177John Langhorne. 1735-1779
  178. 178Isaac Bickerstaff. 1735-1787
  179. 179James Beattie. 1735-1803
  180. 180John Adams. 1735-1826
  181. 181Patrick Henry. 1736-1799
  182. 182Edward Gibbon. 1737-1794
  183. 183Thomas Paine. 1737-1809
  184. 184John Wolcot. 1738-1819
  185. 185Mrs. Thrale. 1739-1821
  186. 186Charles Morris. 1739-1832
  187. 187A. M. Toplady. 1740-1778 — Thomas Moss. 1740-1808
  188. 188Mrs. Barbauld. 1743-1825
  189. 189Thomas Jefferson. 1743-1826
  190. 190Josiah Quincy, Jr. 1744-1775
  191. 191Charles Dibdin. 1745-1814
  192. 192Hannah More. 1745-1833
  193. 193Lord Stowell. 1745-1836
  194. 194Sir William Jones. 1746-1794
  195. 195John Logan. 1748-1788
  196. 196Jonathan M. Sewall. 1748-1808
  197. 197John Edwin. 1749-1790
  198. 198John Trumbull. 1750-1831
  199. 199Richard Brinsley Sheridan. 1751-1816
  200. 200Philip Freneau. 1752-1832
  201. 201George Crabbe. 1754-1832
  202. 202George Barrington. 1755
  203. 203Henry Lee. 1756-1816
  204. 204J. P. Kemble. 1757-1823
  205. 205Horatio Nelson. 1758-1805
  206. 206Robert Burns. 1759-1796
  207. 207William Pitt. 1759-1806
  208. 208Andrew Cherry. 1762-1812
  209. 209George Colman, the Younger. 1762-1836
  210. 210James Hurdis. 1763-1801
  211. 211Samuel Rogers. 1763-1855
  212. 212John Ferriar. 1764-1815
  213. 213Ann Radcliffe. 1764-1823
  214. 214Robert Hall. 1764-1831
  215. 215Thomas Morton. 1764-1838
  216. 216Sir James Mackintosh. 1765-1832
  217. 217Lady Nairne. 1766-1845
  218. 218Andrew Jackson. 1767-1845
  219. 219John Quincy Adams. 1767-1848
  220. 220David Everett. 1769-1813
  221. 221Sydney Smith. 1769-1845
  222. 222J. Hookham Frere. 1769-1846
  223. 223Duke of Wellington. 1769-1852
  224. 224John Tobin. 1770-1804
  225. 225George Canning. 1770-1827
  226. 226William Robert Spencer. 1770-1834
  227. 227Joseph Hopkinson. 1770-1842
  228. 228William Wordsworth. [465:1] 1770-1850
  229. 229Sir Walter Scott. 1771-1832
  230. 230James Montgomery. 1771-1854
  231. 231Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1772-1834
  232. 232Josiah Quincy. 1772-1864
  233. 233Robert Southey. 1774-1843
  234. 234Charles Lamb. 1775-1834
  235. 235James Smith. 1775-1839
  236. 236William Pitt. — — -1840
  237. 237Walter Savage Landor. 1775-1864
  238. 238Thomas Campbell. 1777-1844
  239. 239Henry Clay. 1777-1852
  240. 240F. S. Key. 1779-1843
  241. 241Horace Smith. 1779-1849
  242. 242Thomas Moore. 1779-1852
  243. 243Lord Denman. 1779-1854
  244. 244Clement C. Moore. 1779-1863
  245. 245Lord Brougham. 1779-1868
  246. 246Paul Moon James. 1780-1854
  247. 247Charles Miner. 1780-1865
  248. 248John C. Calhoun. 1782-1850
  249. 249Daniel Webster. 1782-1852
  250. 250Jane Taylor. 1783-1824
  251. 251Reginald Heber. 1783-1826
  252. 252Washington Irving. 1783-1859
  253. 253Leigh Hunt. 1784-1859
  254. 254Samuel Woodworth. 1785-1842
  255. 255Allan Cunningham. 1785-1842
  256. 256Sir W. F. P. Napier. 1785-1860
  257. 257John Pierpont. 1785-1866
  258. 258Bryan W. Procter. 1787-1874
  259. 259Lord Byron 1788-1824
  260. 260William Knox. 1789-1825
  261. 261Alfred Bunn. 1790-1860
  262. 262Fitz-Greene Halleck. 1790-1867
  263. 263Charles Wolfe. 1791-1823
  264. 264Henry Hart Milman. 1791-1868 — Charles Sprague. 1791-1875
  265. 265Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1792-1822
  266. 266J. Howard Payne. 1792-1852
  267. 267Seba Smith. 1792-1868
  268. 268John Keble. 1792-1866
  269. 269Felicia D. Hemans. 1794-1835
  270. 270Edward Everett. 1794-1865
  271. 271William Cullen Bryant. 1794-1878
  272. 272Joseph Rodman Drake. 1795-1820
  273. 273John Keats. 1795-1821
  274. 274Thomas Noon Talfourd. 1795-1854
  275. 275Thomas Carlyle. 1795-1881
  276. 276Thomas C. Haliburton. 1796-1865
  277. 277William Motherwell. 1797-1835
  278. 278Thomas Haynes Bayly. 1797-1839
  279. 279Thomas Drummond. [582:1] 1797-1840
  280. 280McDONALD Clarke. 1798-1842
  281. 281Samuel Lover. 1797-1868
  282. 282Thomas Hood. 1798-1845
  283. 283George Linley. 1798-1865
  284. 284Colonel Blacker
  285. 285Robert Pollok. 1799-1827
  286. 286Rufus Choate. 1799-1859
  287. 287Thomas K. Hervey. 1799-1859
  288. 288Thomas B. Macaulay. 1800-1859
  289. 289J. a. Wade. 1800-1875
  290. 290Sir Henry Taylor. 1800-18
  291. 291William H. Seward. 1801-1872
  292. 292W. M. Praed. 1802-1839
  293. 293George P. Morris. 1802-1864
  294. 294Albert G. Greene. 1802-1868
  295. 295Lydia Maria Child. 1802-1880
  296. 296Douglas Jerrold. 1803-1857
  297. 297Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1803-1882
  298. 298Richard Hengest Horne. 1803
  299. 299William Lloyd Garrison. 1804-1879
  300. 300Mary Howitt. 1804-1888
  301. 301Sarah Flower Adams. 1805-1848
  302. 302Edward Bulwer Lytton. 1805-1873
  303. 303Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield). 1805-1881
  304. 304Robert Montgomery. 1807-1855
  305. 305Charles Jefferys. 1807-1865
  306. 306Lady Dufferin. 1807-1867
  307. 307Henry W. Longfellow. 1807-1882
  308. 308John G. Whittier. 1807
  309. 309Salmon P. Chase. 1808-1873
  310. 310Samuel Francis Smith. 1808
  311. 311Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1809-1861
  312. 312Abraham Lincoln. 1809-1865
  313. 313Charles Darwin. 1809-1882
  314. 314Alfred Tennyson. 1809
  315. 315Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton). 1809-1885
  316. 316Oliver Wendell Holmes. 1809
  317. 317Robert C. Winthrop. 1809
  318. 318James Aldrich. 1810-1856
  319. 319Theodore Parker. 1810-1860
  320. 320Edmund H. Sears. 1810-1876
  321. 321Martin F. Tupper. 1810-1889 — Edgar a. Poe. 1811-1849
  322. 322Wendell Phillips. 1811-1884
  323. 323Frances Anne Kemble. 1811
  324. 324Bartholomew Dowling
  325. 325Alfred Domett. 1811
  326. 326Julia a. Fletcher (Now Mrs. Carney)
  327. 327Austen H. Layard. — — -1894
  328. 328Robert Browning. 1812-1890
  329. 329Charles Dickens. 1812-1870
  330. 330Christopher P. Cranch. 1813
  331. 331F. W. Faber. 1814-1863
  332. 332Charles Mackay. 1814
  333. 333Ellen Sturgis Hooper. 1816-1841
  334. 334Philip James Bailey. 1816
  335. 335Eliza Cook. 1817
  336. 336Nathaniel P. Willis. 1817-1867
  337. 337William Ellery Channing. 1817
  338. 338James Russell Lowell. 1819-1891
  339. 339Charles Kingsley. 1819-1875
  340. 340Ulysses S. Grant. 1822-1885
  341. 341Matthew Arnold. 1822-1888
  342. 342Rutherford B. Hayes. 1822 — Leonard Heath
  343. 343Bayard Taylor. 1825-1878
  344. 344Dinah M. Mulock. 1826
  345. 345Alexander Smith. 1830-1867
  346. 346H. F. Chorley. 1831-1872
  347. 347Elizabeth Akers Allen. 1832
  348. 348Bishop Henry C. Potter. 1835
  349. 349Francis M. Finch
  350. 350Grover Cleveland. 1837
  351. 351Francis Bret Harte. 1839
  352. 352Francis W. Bourdillon. 1852
  353. 353Miscellaneous
  354. 354Pilpay ( or Bidpai.) [691:1]
  355. 355Hesiod. Circa 720 (?) b. c
  356. 356Theognis. 570(?)-490(?) b. c
  357. 357Æschylus. 525-456 b. c
  358. 358Sophocles. 496-406 b. c
  359. 359Euripides. 484-406 b. c
  360. 360Mimnermus ( Tragedian )
  361. 361Hippocrates. 460-359 b. c
  362. 362Dionysius the Elder. 430-367 b. c — Plautus. 254(?)-184 b. c
  363. 363Terence. 185-159 b. c
  364. 364Cicero. 106-43 b. c
  365. 365Lucretius. 95-55 b. c
  366. 366Horace. 65-8 b. c
  367. 367OVID. 43 b. c. -18 a. d
  368. 368Of Unknown Authorship
  369. 369Publius Syrus. [708:1] 42 b. c
  370. 370Seneca. 8 b. c. -65 a. d
  371. 371Phædrus. 8 a. d
  372. 372Pliny the Elder. 23-79 a. d
  373. 373Quintilian. 42-118 a. d
  374. 374Juvenal. 47-138 a. d
  375. 375Martial. 40-102 a. d
  376. 376Plutarch. 46(?)-120(?) a. d
  377. 377Epictetus. Circa 60 a. d
  378. 378Tacitus. 54-119 a. d
  379. 379Pliny the Younger. 61-105 a. d
  380. 380Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. 121-180 a. d
  381. 381Tertullian. 160-240 a. d
  382. 382Diogenes Laertius. Circa 200 a. d
  383. 383Athenæus. Circa 200 a. d
  384. 384Saint Augustine. 354-430
  385. 385Ali Ben Abi Taleb. [767:6] — — -660
  386. 386Omar Khayyám. — — -1123
  387. 387Alphonso the Wise. 1221-1284
  388. 388Dante. 1265-1321
  389. 389François Villon. Circa 1430-1484
  390. 390Michelangelo. 1474-1564
  391. 391Martin Luther. 1483-1546
  392. 392Francis Rabelais. 1495-1553
  393. 393Michael de Montaigne. 1533-1592
  394. 394Du Bartas. 1544-1590
  395. 395Miguel de Cervantes. 1547-1616
  396. 396Bartholomew Schidoni. 1560-1616 — John Sirmond. 1589(?)-1649
  397. 397Friedrich von Logau. 1604-1655
  398. 398Isaac de Benserade. 1612-1691
  399. 399Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld. 1613-1680
  400. 400J. de la Fontaine. 1621-1695
  401. 401Jean Baptiste Molière. 1622-1673
  402. 402Blaise Pascal. 1623-1662
  403. 403Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux. 1636-1711
  404. 404Alain René le Sage. 1668-1747
  405. 405Francis M. Voltaire. 1694-1778
  406. 406Madame du Deffand. 1697-1784
  407. 407Jean Jacques Rousseau. 1712-1778
  408. 408Gesta Romanorum. [802:1]
  409. 409Vauvenargues ( Marquis of ). 1715-1747 — Michel Jean Sedaine. 1717-…
  410. 410Prince de Ligne. 1735-1814
  411. 411Goethe. 1749-1832
  412. 412Madame Roland. 1754-1793 — Bertrand Barère. 1755-1841
  413. 413Schiller. 1759-1805
  414. 414Joseph Rouget de L'Isle. 1760
  415. 415A. F. F. von Kotzebue. 1761-1819 — J. G. von Salis. 1762-1834
  416. 416Joseph Fouché. 1763-1820
  417. 417J. M. Usteri. 1763-1827
  418. 418H. B. Constant. 1767-1830
  419. 419Junot, Duc D'Abrantes. 1771-1813
  420. 420Johann L. Uhland. 1787-1862
  421. 421Von Münch Bellinghausen. 1806-1871
  422. 422Miscellaneous Translations
  423. 423Old Testament
  424. 424New Testament
  425. 425Book of Common Prayer
  426. 426Tate and Brady. [851:3]
  427. 427Appendix
  428. 428Index

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