XXX. Mignon's Song . Goethe (Thomas Carlyle's translation). 87 XXXV. The Effect of Paul's Preaching at Ephesus. 107 XXXVIII. The Pauper's Deathbed...... Caroline A. B. Southey. LII. The Ascent to the Eagle's Nest........John Wilson. 148 LIII. The Descent from the Eagle's Nest.....John Wilson. 153 LV. How to render Scornful and Sarcastic Ideas. Mark Bailey. 159 LVI. Hymn to the Night . LVII. Speech of Brutus . LVIII. "We watched her Breathing " LXII. Escape from Doubting Castle LXIII. Mark Antony's Oration ... PAGE .H. W. Longfellow. 161 William Shakespeare. 162 . Thomas Hood. 164 .Henry D. Thoreau. 165 Fitz-Greene Halleck. 169 John Bunyan. 171 John Bunyan. 176 William Shakespeare. 179 ..M. de Cervantes. 186 LXV. The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. LXXIV. The Murderer can not keep his Secret.. Daniel Webster. 215 LXXXIII. How I learned to write Prose.....Benjamin Franklin. 237 LXXXIV. Translation of the Twenty-third Psalm..Joseph Addison. 241 XC. Poetic Reading. I...... PAGE .Mark Bailey. 266 XCI. Man's Physical and Mental Superiority....Daniel Webster. 274 CXIV. Benefits of Inventions and Discoveries ..John C. Calhoun. 348 CXV. The Bivouac of the Dead... CXVI. Influence of the Translation of the Bible upon Litera ture.... ...Theodore O'Hara. 351 William Hazlitt. 354 J. G. von Salis (Longfellow's translation). 356 CXVIII. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. .Anonymous. 357 CXIX. Darkness-a Dream .Lord Byron. 362 CXVII. Song of the Silent Land. CXX. God's Mightiness and Tenderness...Psalms CII. and CIII. 365 CXXXIII. Candles not used by the Ancients.. Thomas De Quincey. 404 CXXXIV. Rienzi's Address to the Romans... CXXXV. Liberty or Death!. CXXXVI. The Skylark.. CXXXVII. Fossil Poetry. CXXXVIII. L'Allegro CXXXIX. Old Age... CXL. Il Penseroso. CXLI. Garden Plants.. CXLII. The Ancient Mariner. CXLIII. Carlyle's Definition of Man. Mary R. Mitford. 407 .Patrick Henry. 409 .Percy Bysshe Shelley. 413 R. C. Trench. 416 .John Milton. 419 CXLIV. Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. |