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Excerpt from Loci Critici: Passages Illustrative of Critical Theory and Practice From Aristotle Downwards The present...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Henry Irving G's professional career upon the new-yorh stage and a Study of his Acting. The shetches...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Paper Read Before the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, December...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Teaching the Drama and the Essay And so it comes to pass that great books impart a knowledge of human...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Idolatry, Vol. 1: A Romance De fe Fa ula does not apply here, my dear friend; for you will show me...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Rural Socrates: Or an Account of a Celebrated Philosophical Farmer, Lately Living in Switzerland,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Modern Society Modern society, concerning which you have bid me discourse to you, is this tricksy spirit,...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from Association Papers: Part I. Publications; Part II. A Collection of Tracts; To Which Are Prefixed, a...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Vol. 7: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin The defcription of a falamander....  Read More >>

Excerpt from Literature in the Common Schools Courtesy in examining the manuscript, and to Professor James M. Callahan...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Personalia Perhaps the only justification for publishing a collection of old essays ranging over the...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Chivalry in English Literature: Chaucer, Malory, Spenser and Shakespeare Crusaders; most beneficial...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Horse Foot: Or, Pilgrims to Parnassus Gives mortals two, and parsons three or four, Though five's sheer...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Brief for Plaintiff: Bacon Vs; Shakespeare WE may say of improbabilities, as we do of evils, choose...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Georgic: A Contribution to the Study of the Vergilian Type of Didactic Poetry The subject that...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Common School Literature English and American: With Several Hundred Extracts to Be Memorized His was...  Read More >>

Excerpt from A Proper Reply to a Late Infamous and Scurrilous Libel, Intitled: A Congratulatory Letter to a Certain...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Home Guide to Good Reading: Compiled With Notes VI special lists for mature readers The Bible -...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Letter to a Merry Young Gentleman, Intituled, Tho; Burnet, Esq.: In Answer to One Writ by Him to the...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor, Vol. 5 Aspasia to Cleone Cleone also Aspasia Aspasia to...  Read More >>

Excerpt from George Moore That portrait which is like nothing so much as the human symbol of a high-explosive shell....  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Library, Vol. 5: A Quarterly Review of Bibliography...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Century Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 22 Doll. When begins the term? Chart. Why? Hast...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Considerations Upon Wit and Morals If a preface be ufeful, I am of op1n1on that it is fo in a work...  Read More >>