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By: John Stephen Farmer (1845?-1915?) | |
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Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] |
By: Violet Jacob (1863-1946) | |
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Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus |
By: Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) | |
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Songs of Labor and Other Poems | |
By: James Jennings | |
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The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire |
By: Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927) | |
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The Created Legend |
By: Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756) | |
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An apology for the study of northern antiquities |
By: A. Christen | |
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Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education |
By: John Ogilvie (1732-1813) | |
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An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients |
By: N. A. (Napoléon-Antoine) Belcourt (1860-1932) | |
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Bilingualism Address delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club, at Quebec, Tuesday, March 28th, 1916 |
By: R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews (1841-1918) | |
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The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales | |
The Gundungurra Language |
By: William Benson (1682-1754) | |
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Letters Concerning Poetical Translations And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. |
By: Charles Hardy | |
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The Aural System Being the Most Direct, the Straight-Line Method for the Simultaneous Fourfold Mastery of a Foreign Language. |
By: Horatio Winslow (1882-1972) | |
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Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers |
By: Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1866-1943) | |
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Russian Lyrics |
By: Kostes Palamas (1859-1943) | |
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Life Immovable First Part |
By: Władysław Stanisław Reymont (1867-1925) | |
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The Comedienne |
By: Mr. (John) Oldmixon (1673-1742) | |
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Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712) and The British Academy (1712) |
By: A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson (1838-1905) | |
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The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages |
By: Unknown | |
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments
A collection of folklore stories accumulated during the Islamic Golden Age, The Arabian Nights Entertainments has entertained and fascinated readers for centuries. The book centers on a frame story concerning the sultan Shahrayah and his wife Scheherazade, who cleverly narrates captivating stories to her husband each night in order to save herself from his retribution and live another day. As a result the book encourages the literary technique of a story within a story. The frame story begins when the sultan Shahrayar learns of his brother’s adulterous wife and subsequently discovers his own wife is guilty of infidelity... |
By: Anonymous (1821-1890) | |
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The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been found for the collection, but several versions date the collection’s genesis to somewhere between AD 800-900. The stories are wound together under the device of a long series of cliff-hangers told by Shahrazad to her husband Shahryar, to prevent him from executing her... |
By: Various | |
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Best Russian Short Stories
In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th century Russian literature. As a survey of famous authors at the height of the powers, as well as some writers who have been unjustly neglected, this anthology is indispensable. |
By: Anonymous | |
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English as She is Wrote
"...Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentionally humorous uses of the English language. Sections of the work: How she is wrote by the Inaccurate, By Advertisers and on Sign-boards, For Epitaphs, By Correspondents, By the Effusive, How she can be oddly wrote, and By the Untutored. |
By: Unknown | |
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The Mabinogion
Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest: On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated, one of the black sheep would cross over, and become white; and when one of the black sheep bleated, one of the white sheep would cross over, and become black. Before passing on to the Mabinogion proper, Lady Charlotte Guest devotes Volume I of her compilation of medieval Welsh tales to three brief romances of Arthur’s Court... |
By: Plato (424/423 BC - 348/347 BC) | |
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Apology
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). "Apology" here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word "apologia") of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions (from the Ancient Greek ἀπολογία). |
By: Unknown (750? BC - 650? BC) | |
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The Odyssey |
By: Euripides (480-406 BC) | |
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Medea
Euripides' tragedy focuses on the disintegration of the relationship between Jason, the hero who captured the Golden Fleece, and Medea, the sorceress who returned with him to Corinth and had two sons with him. As the play opens, Jason plans to marry the daughter of King Creon, and the lovesick Medea plots how to take her revenge. |
By: Various | |
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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Bacon, Calvin, Caxton, Condell, Copernicus, Dryden, Fielding, Goethe, Heminge, Hugo, Johnson, Knox, Newton, Raleigh, Spenser, Taine, Whitman and Wordsworth. Eliot wrote in his preface to these prefaces, "No part of a book is so intimate as the Preface. Here, after the long labor of the work is over, the author descends from his platform, and speaks with his reader as man to man, disclosing his hopes and fears, seeking sympathy for his difficulties, offering defence or defiance, according to his temper, against the criticisms which he anticipates." |
By: Gaius Petronius Arbiter | |
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The Satyricon
Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius. As with the Metamorphoses of Apuleius, classical scholars often describe it as a "Roman novel", without necessarily implying continuity with the modern literary form.The surviving portions of the text detail the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, and his lover, a handsome sixteen-year-old boy named Giton... |
By: Plato (426-347 BCE) | |
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Meno
Meno (Ancient Greek: Μένων) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning in this case virtue in general, rather than particular virtues, such as justice or temperance. The goal is a common definition that applies equally to all particular virtues. Socrates moves the discussion past the philosophical confusion, or aporia, created by Meno's paradox (aka the learner's paradox) with the introduction of new Platonic ideas: the theory of knowledge as recollection, anamnesis, and in the final lines a movement towards Platonic idealism.. (Introduction by Wikipedia) |
By: Plato (424-348 BC) | |
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Laws
Νόμοι (Laws) is Plato's final dialogue written after his attempt to advise the tyrant Dionysius II of Syracuse. The dialogue takes place between: an Athenian Stranger (Socrates? A god in human form?); the quiet Lacedaemonian Megillus; and the Cretan Cleinias. The Stranger asks whether humans live to be more effective at waging war or if there is something more important a legislator should seek to achieve. During their pilgrimage Cleinias discloses his role in the establishment of a new colony... |
By: Unknown (551 BC - 479 BC) | |
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The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) | |
Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes | |
The Odyssey of Homer |
By: Plato (Πλάτων) (c. 428 BC - c. 347 BC) | |
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Republic (version 2)
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man by considering a series of different cities coming into existence "in speech", culminating in a city (Kallipolis) ruled by philosopher-kings; and by examining the nature of existing regimes... | |
Gorgias
This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of "Republic" and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The spirituality, as Jowett points out in his wonderful introduction, has many ideas akin to Christianity, but is more generous as it reserves damnation only for the tyrants of the world. Some of the truths of Socrates, as presented by Plato, shine forth in this wonderful work on sophistry and other forms of persuasion or cookery. |
By: Unknown (446? BC - 385? BC) | |
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Clouds | |
Theaetetus
Theaetetus (Ancient Greek: Θεαίτητος) discusses concepts including perception, true judgment and knowledge. Socrates compares the human mind to a piece of wax and is critical of lawyers who seek only to persuade. | |
Crito |
By: George F. Dillon (1836-1893) | |
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Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ |
By: Unknown (431 BC - 350? BC) | |
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Hellenica | |
The Odyssey Done into English prose | |
The Birds | |
Parmenides
Parmenides (Ancient Greek: ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΔΗΣ) recounts a meeting between Socrates, Zeno and Parmenides. Topics discussed include universals, plurality and the One. | |
The Economist | |
The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor | |
Plutarch's Morals |
By: Various | |
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Rig Veda Americanus Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl |
By: Unknown (384 BC - 322 BC) | |
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The Athenian Constitution |
By: Confucius 孔子 (551-479 BCE) | |
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Analects of Confucius
The Analects, or Lunyu, also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples, as well as the discussions they held. Written during the Spring and Autumn Period through the Warring States Period (ca. 475 BC - 221 BC), the Analects is the representative work of Confucianism and continues to have a substantial influence on Chinese and East Asian thought and values today. William Jennings was a rector of Grasmere, and late colonial chaplain. He served at St. John's Cathedral in Hong Kong. |
By: Plato (Πλάτων) (c. 428 BC - c. 347 BC) | |
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Protagoras
Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets with Protagoras and other sophists and pursues his inquiry into virtue. The dialectic brings the thinkers to a surprising ending. Socrates narrates this dialogue. |
By: Anonymous | |
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Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology |
By: Aeschylus (c. 525/524-456/455 BC) | |
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Prometheus Bound (Buckley Translation)
"Prometheus Bound" is the only complete tragedy of the Prometheia trilogy, traditionally assumed to be the work of Aeschylus. Jupiter has turned against Prometheus for protecting mankind and has ordered him to be chained to a rock. But Prometheus is comforted by his knowledge of a way to bring about the downfall of Jupiter. |
By: Unknown (431 BC - 350? BC) | |
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The Memorabilia | |
On Horsemanship |