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JOHN GAY, a famous English poet, was born near Barnstable, Devonshire, in 1685, and died at London, December 4, 1732. He wrote: "The Fables," "The Shepherd's Week," "Rural Sports," "Trivia, or the Art of Walking the Streets of London," "The Wife of Bath," etc. Also "The Beggar's Opera."

Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

--_Mme. du Deffand_.

MARIE ANNE DE VICHY-CHAMROND, MARQUISE DU DEFFAND (MADAME DU DEFFAND), a celebrated French wit and letter-writer, was born in Burgundy, in 1697, and died at Paris, September 24, 1780. Her correspondence with Horace Walpole was published in 1780; with d'Alembert, and other renowned Frenchmen, in 1809; with Voltaire, in 1810, and with the Duchess de Choiseul and others in 1859.

One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you.

"The Parting Kiss,"--_Robert Dodsley_.

ROBERT DODSLEY, a noted English poet, was born at Mansfield, Notts, in 1703, and died in 1764. He published "The Muse in Livery," (a volume of verse), and some notable plays, among them: "The Toy Shop," "The King and the Miller of Mansfield," and "Sir John Cockle at Court."

Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know That never feels a pain.

"Song,"--_Lord George Lyttelton_.

LORD GEORGE LYTTLETON, a distinguished English statesman and man of letters, was born at Hagley, Worcestershire, in 1709, and died, August 22, 1773. His best known prose works are: "The Conversion and Apostleship of St. Paul," and "History of Henry II."

Of right and wrong he taught Truths as refined as ever Athens heard; And (strange to tell!) He practised what he preached.

"The Art of Preserving Health," Book IV, Line 301,--_John Armstrong_.

JOHN ARMSTRONG, a celebrated English physician and poet, was born about 1709, and died September 7, 1779. He is best known by his famous poem, "The Art of Preserving Health."

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.

"Written on a Window of an Inn,"--_William Shenstone_.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE, a celebrated English poet, was born at the Leasowes, near Halesowen, Shropshire, in 1714, and died there, February 11, 1763. His best known poems are: "The Pastoral Ballad," "Written in an Inn at Henley," and "The Schoolmistress." His "Essays on Men and Manners," "Letters," and "Works" were collected and published after his death.

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

"The Author," Act II,--_Samuel Foote_.

SAMUEL FOOTE, a noted English wag, impersonator and comic playwright, was baptized January 27, 1720, at Truro in Cornwall, and died at Dover, October 21, 1777. Of his popular plays the most notable are: "The Minor," "The Liar," and "The Mayor of Garratt."

Facts are stubborn things.

Translation of "Gil Bias,"--_Smollett_.

TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT, a renowned British novelist, was born at Dalquhurn, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, in 1721, and died at Monte Novo, near Leghorn, Italy, October 21, 1771. A few of his numerous works are: "The Regicide," "The Adventures of Roderick Random," "Advice," "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle," "The Reprisals," "The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom," "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker," "Travels," "Reproof," and "Compendium of Voyages and Travels."

There's nae sorrow there, John, There's neither cauld nor care, John The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal.

"The Land o' the Leal,"--_Lady Nairne_.

LADY NAIRNE (CAROLINA OLIPHANT), a famous Scotch poet, was born at Gask, Perthshire, in 1766, and died there, 1845. She wrote: "The Land o' the Leal," "Caller Herrin'," and "The Laird o' Cockpen."

Too late I stayed,--forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.

"Lines to Lady A. Hamilton,"--_William Robert Spencer_.

WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER, a noted English poet and wit, was born in 1770, and died in 1834. Among his best known pieces, which were published in a collection of his poems in 1811, were "Beth Gelert," and "Too Late I Stayed."

Abide with me from morn till eve, For without Thee I cannot live; Abide with me when night is nigh, For without Thee I dare not die.

"Evening,"--_John Keble_.

JOHN KEBLE, a celebrated English religious poet, was born at Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 1792, and died at Bournemouth, Hampshire, in 1866. His fame rests on the renowned work, "The Christian Year," which he published anonymously in 1872.

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

"Rory O'More,"--_Samuel Lover_.

SAMUEL LOVER, a famous Irish novelist and song-writer, was born at Dublin, in 1797, and died July 6, 1868. He wrote: "Legends and Stories of Ireland," "Songs and Ballads," including, "The Low-Backed Car," "Widow Machree," "The Angel's Whisper," and "The Four-Leaved Shamrock." Also: "Handy Andy, an Irish Tale," "Treasure Trove," "Rory O'More, a National Romance," "Metrical Tales and Other Poems," and edited a collection of "The Lyrics of Ireland."

On this I ponder Where'er I wander, And thus grow fonder, Sweet Cork of thee,-- With thy bells of Shandon, That sound so grand on The pleasant waters Of the River Lee.

"The Bells of Shandon,"--_Father Prout (Francis O'Mahony)_.

FRANCIS O'MAHONY ("FATHER PROUT"), a noted Irish journalist and poet, was born in Cork, about 1804, and died in Paris, in 1866. He published "Reliques of Father Prout," "Facts and Figures from Italy," etc.

I'm very lonely now, Mary For the poor make no new friends; But oh, they love the better still The few our Father sends.

"Lament of the Irish Emigrant,"--_Lady Dufferin_.

HELENA SELINA (SHERIDAN) LADY DUFFERIN, a noted English poet, was born in 1807, and died June 13, 1867. Her songs and lyrics were collected into a volume, and edited by her son.

For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balm Not lost but gone before.

"Not Lost but Gone Before,"--_Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton_.

CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH NORTON (HON. MRS. NORTON), a distinguished English author, was born in London, in 1808, and died in 1877. She wrote a pamphlet on "English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century," "The Dream and Other Poems," "A Voice from the Factories," "Aunt Carry's Ballads," "Lives of the Sheridans," etc.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers.

[2] Let everyone engage in the business with which he is best acquainted.

[3] The wounds of civil war are deeply felt.

[4] Man is not allowed to know what will happen to-morrow.

[5] What law can bind lovers? Love is their supreme law.

[6] Of two evils, the least should be chosen.

INDEX

Abélard, 299 Adams, Charles Francis, 187 Adams, John, 228 Adams, John Quincy, 159 Adams, Sarah Flower, 44 Addison, Joseph, 107 Æschines, 291 Æschylus, 287 Æsop, 285 Agassiz, J. L. R., 125 Aguilar, Grace, 131 Akenside, Mark, 243 Alcott, Amos B., 257 Alden, Henry Mills, 247 Aldrich, Anne R., 99 Aldrich, James, 161 Aldrich, Thomas B., 247 Alembert, J. B. L. d', 251 Alfieri, Vittorio, 14 Allen, Charles Grant, 46 Allen, Elizabeth Ackers, 223 Allingham, William, 66 Allston, Washington, 241 Ames, Fisher, 87 Amiel, Henri F., 214 Anacreon, 286 Andersen, Hans Christian, 80 Aquinas, Thomas, 301 Arago, Dominique François, 47 Arbuthnot, John, 102 Ariosto, Ludovico, 201 Aristotle, 290 Armstrong, John, 319 Aristophanes, 289 Arnold, Sir Edwin, 136 Arnold, Matthew, 277 Ascham, Roger, 304 Auerbach, Berthold, 50 Aurelius, Marcus, 93 Austen, Jane, 271 Austin, Alfred, 127 Ayton, Sir Robert, 309 Aytoun, William E., 142

Bacon, Francis, 19 Bagehot, Walter, 30 Baillie, Joanna, 203 Bailey, Philip J., 97 Balfour, Arthur James, 168 Ballantine, James, 137 Balzac, Honoré de, 116 Bangs, John Kendrick, 124 Bancroft, George, 220 Barbauld, Anna Lætitia, 142 Barham, Richard, 265 Baring-Gould, Sabine, 23 Barlowe, Joel, 69 Barnfield, Richard, 310 Barrie, James Matthew, 112 Barnes, William, 43 Barrow, Isaac, 140 Barton, Bernard, 25 Baxter, Richard, 248 Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 225 Beattie, James, 232 Beaumarchais, P. A. C. de, 20 Beaumont, Francis, 311 Beddoes, Thomas L., 165 Beecher, Henry Ward, 146 Beers, Ethel L., 11 Beethoven, Ludwig von, 87 Belloc, Hilaire, 169 Benjamin, Park, 183 Bennett, Arnold, 124 Bentham, Jeremy, 38 Bentley, Richard, 21 Benton, Thomas Hart, 63 Béranger, Pierre Jean de, 188 Berkeley, George, 62 Bernard of Clairvaux, 300 Bernard of Cluny, 300 Besant, Walter, 184 Beyle, Marie Henri, 20 Bierce, Ambrose, 134 Birrell, Augustine, 17 Bismarck, Otto E. L. von, 79 Black, William, 242 Blackie, John Stuart, 171 Blackmore, Sir Richard, 135 Blackstone, Sir William, 158 Blair, Robert, 93 Blake, William, 257 Blanc, Charles, 250 Blanchard, Samuel L., 116 Blossington, Countess of, 199 Blind, Mathilde, 68 Bloomfield, Robert, 263 Boker, George Henry, 222 Boëthius, 299 Boileau-Despréaux, 239 Bolingbroke, Viscount, 219 Boner, John Henry, 25 Borrow, George, 155 Bossuet, Jacques B., 213 Boswell, James, 235 Bourdillon, Francis W., 69 Bowring, Sir John, 227 Boyesen, H. H., 212 Brandes, George, 31 Bridges, Robert, 231 Bright, John, 251 Brillat-Savarin, 79 Brontë, Charlotte, 95 Brooks, Phillips, 270 Brougham, Lord, 209 Browne, Charles Farrar, 100 Browne, Sir Thomas, 228 Brownell, Henry Howard, 32 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 58 Browning, Robert, 111 Brunetière, Ferdinand, 164 Bryant, William Cullen, 240 Bryce, James, 113 Buchanan, Robert W., 188 Buckle, Henry Thomas, 255 Buffon, Comte de, 201 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 122 Bungay, George W., 166 Bunner, Henry C., 176 Bunyan, John, 252 Bürger, August G., 280 Burke, Edmund, 10 Burleigh, William Henry, 29 Burney, Frances, 138 Burns, Robert, 20 Burroughs, John, 82 Burton, Robert, 33 Bushnell, Horace, 90 Butler, Samuel, 314 Byrom, John, 51 Byron, Lord, 19

Cable, George W., 224 Cæsar, Julius, 292 Caine, Hall, 116 Calderon, Pedro, 14 Calhoun, John C., 66 Callimachus, 291 Calvin, John, 158 Calverley, Charles Stuart, 275 Campbell, John, Duke of Argyle, 103 Campbell, Thomas, 169 Camoëns, 305 Canning, George, 89 Carew, Thomas, 307 Carlyle, Thomas, 264 Carman, Bliss, 91 Carroll, Lewis, 22 Cary, Phoebe, 205 Cato, the Censor, 291 Catullus, 293 Cawein, Madison J., 69 Cellini, Benvenuto, 239 Cervantes, 306 Chalmers, Thomas, 65 Chamisso, Adelbert von, 25 Channing, William E., 86 Chapman, George, 307 Chateaubriand, Viscomte de, 200 Chatterton, Thomas, 252 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 302 Chénier, André Marie de, 235 Cherbuliez, Victor, 164 Chesterfield, Earl of, 211 Chesterton, Gilbert, 126 Child, Lydia, M., 36 Choate, Rufus, 219 Chorley, Henry F., 271 Churchill, Charles, 32 Chrysostom, St. John, 299 Cibber, Colley, 242 Cicero, 292 Clare, John, 160 Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 42 Clarke, McDonald, 141 Clay, Henry, 89 Cleveland, Grover, 66 Cobbett, William, 60 Clough, Arthur Hugh, 3 Coleridge, Hartley, 209 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 230 Colman, George, Jr., 230 Colman, George, Sr., 101 Collins, Mortimer, 149 Collins, William, 278 Collins, William Wilkie, 7 Comenius, 72 Comines, Philippe de, 303 Comte, Auguste, 16 Confucius, 287 Congreve, William, 83 Conrad, Joseph, 265 Cooke, Rose Terry, 40 Cooper, James Fenimore, 205 Copernicus, 42 Corneille, Pierre, 133 Cousin, Victor, 257 Cowley, Abraham, 315 Cowper, William, 256 Crabbe, George, 276 Craik, Dinah M., 94 Cranch, Christopher P., 60 Crashaw, Richard, 314 Crawford, Francis Marion, 175 Creasy, Sir Edward S., 18 Crébillon, Prosper de, 11 Crockett, David, 186 Crockett, Samuel R., 212 Cunningham, Allan, 266 Curtis, George William, 46 Curtius, Ernst, 199

Dana, Richard Henry, 250 Dante, 301 Darley, George, 156 Darmesteter, Agnes M. F. R., 50 Darmesteter, James, 73 Darwin, Charles Robert, 37 Daudet, Alphonse, 115 Davenant, Sir William, 313 Davies, Sir John, 56 Davies, W. H., 94 Davis, Thomas Osborne, 226 Davy, Sir Humphry, 272 Deffand, Madame du, 318 Defoe, Daniel, 316 Dekker, Thomas, 309 Deland, Margaret, 45 De Ligne, 113 Demosthenes, 290 Denham, Sir John, 312 DeQuincey, Thomas, 186 Descartes, René, 75 De Vere, Sir Aubrey, 194 DeVere, Aubrey Thomas, 8 Dewey, Orville, 73 Dibdin, Charles, 64 Dickens, Charles, 33 Diderot, Denis, 221 Dillon, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon, 316 Diogenes, Laertius, 298 Disraeli, Benjamin, 274 Disraeli, Isaac, 117 Dobell, Sydney, 83 Dobson, Austin, 16 Doddridge, Philip, 147 Dodge, Mary Mapes, 274 Dodsley, Robert, 318 Domett, Alfred, 118 Donne, John, 310 Dorr, Julia C. R., 38 Doudney, Sarah, 13 Dowden, Edward, 109 Doyle, A. Conan, 120 Drake, Joseph Rodman, 178 Draper, John W., 110 Drayton, Michael, 308 Drummond, Henry, 187 Dryden, John, 180 Dufferin, Lady, 322 Dumas, Alexandre, the Elder, 167 Dumas, Alexandre, the Younger, 169 Du Maurier, George, 59 Dunlop, John, 70 Dwight, John S., 115 Dwight, Timothy, 115 Dyer, Edward, 313

Ebers, George, 55 Edgeworth, Maria, 3 Edwards, Amelia B., 134 Edwards, Jonathan, 221 Egan, Maurice Francis, 122 Eggleston, Edward, 268 Eichendorff, Joseph von, 61 Eliot, George, 254 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 123 English, Thomas D., 148 Epictetus, 296 Erasmus, 303 Euripides, 288 Evelyn, John, 235 Everett, David, 73 Everett, Edward, 89

Faber, Frederick W., 148 Falconer, William, 36 Farrar, Frederick W., 178 Fawcett, Henry, 192 Fénélon, 177 Feuillet, Octave, 181 Fichte, Johann G., 118 Field, Eugene, 200 Fielding, Henry, 96 Fields, James T., 281 Finch, Francis M., 136 Fiske, John, 74 Fitzgerald, Edward, 75 Flaubert, Gustave, 269 Fletcher, John, 273 Foote, Samuel, 319 Ford, John, 311 Forster, John, 80 Foster, John, 207 Fouché, Joseph, 119 France, Anatole, 92 Francis, Sir Philip, 231 Franklin, Benjamin, 13 Freneau, Philip, 4 Frere, J. H., 119 Froebel, Friedrich, 94 Froude, James A., 97 Fuller, Margaret, 121 Fuller, Thomas, 141

Galsworthy, John, 184 Garland, Hamlin, 206 Garnett, Richard, 49 Garth, Samuel, 316 Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth C., 215 Gautier, Théophile, 196 Gay, John, 318 Gibbon, Edward, 100 Gilbert, William S., 252 Gilder, Richard Watson, 34 Gilfillan, Robert, 156 Giusti, Giuseppi, 114 Gladstone, William E., 279 Goethe, 193 Goldoni, Carlo, 47 Goldsmith, Oliver, 244 Gordon, Adam Lindsay, 234 Gosse, Edmund, 210 Gower, John, 302 Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 101 Grattan, Henry, 154 Gray, Thomas, 278 Greeley, Horace, 30 Greene, Robert, 308 Griffin, Gerald, 269 Grillparzer, Franz, 12 Grimm, Jacob, 5 Griswold, R. W., 39 Grote, George, 251 Guérin, Eugénie de, 9 Guizot, François, 220

Haeckel, Ernst, 40 Haggard, Sir Henry Rider, 143 Hale, Edward E., 81 Haliburton, Thomas C., 213 Hallam, Henry, 157 Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 157 Hall, Bishop, 153 Hamilton, Alexander, 9 Hamerton, Philip G., 202 Hardy, Thomas, 132 Hare, A. J. C., 63 Hare, Julius C., 204 Harris, Joel, Chandler, 266 Harrison, Frederic, 227 Harte, Francis Bret, 191 Havergal, Frances R., 271 Hawkins, Anthony Hope, 35 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 155 Hay, John, 223 Hayne, Paul Hamilton, 4 Hazlitt, William, 87 Hearn, Lafcadio, 147 Heber, Reginald, 95 Hegel, Georg W. F., 192 Heine, Heinrich, 269 Helps, Sir Arthur, 159 Hemans, Felicia, 213 Henley, William E., 190 Henry, Patrick, 125 Heraclitus, 287 Herbert, George, 80 Herder, Johann G. von, 191 Herodotus, 288 Herrick, Robert, 189 Hesiod, 285 Heyse, Paul Ludwig, 64 Heywood, Thomas, 311 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 275 Hildreth, Richard, 143 Hippocrates, 288 Hobbes, Thomas, 83 Hogg, James, 263 Holland, Josiah Gilbert, 167 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 195 Home, John, 209 Homer, 285 Hood, Thomas, 121 Hook, Theodore, E., 211 Hooker, Richard, 307 Hopkins, Mark, 31 Hopkinson, Joseph, 248 Horace, 293 Horne, Richard Henry, 3 Housman, Alfred E., 71 Howe, Julia Ward, 123 Howell, James, 312 Howells, William Dean, 55 Hughes, Thomas, 229 Hugo, Victor, 47 Humboldt, Alexander von, 204 Hume, David, 100 Hunt, Leigh, 229 Hutcheson, Francis, 179 Huxley, Thomas Henry, 110

Ibsen, Henrik, 67 Ingelow, Jean, 65 Ingersoll, Robert G., 181 Irving, Washington, 81

Jackson, Helen Fiske, 228 James, Henry, 91 Jami, 303 Jefferson, Thomas, 80 Jerome, J. K., 108 Jerrold, Douglas, 5 Johnson, Samuel, 207 Jonson, Ben, 310 Joubert, Joseph, 111 Juvenal, 296

Kant, Emmanuel, 96 Keats, John, 236 Keble, John, 321 Kemble, Frances A., 256 Kempis, Thomas à, 302 Kepler, Johannes, 279 Key, Francis Scott, 179 Khayyám, Omar, 299 Kingsley, Charles, 139 Kipling, Rudyard, 280 Klopstock, Friedrich G., 153 Knowles, James S., 120 Kotzebue, A. F., 109

Laboulaye, E. R. L., 15 LaBruyère, Jean de, 196 La Fayette, Madame de, 65 La Fontaine, Jean de, 157 Lamb, Charles, 35 Lamartine, 230 Landor, Walter S., 24 Lang, Andrew, 76 Lanier, Sidney, 31 Laplace, Marquis de, 72 Larcom, Lucy, 144 Layard, Sir Austen Henry, 57 Lecky, William E. H., 70 Lee, Nathaniel, 314 Le Gallienne, Richard, 18 Leibnitz, G. W. von, 155 Lemaître, François, 193 Lemon, Mark, 259 Le Sage, 112 Lessing, Gotthold E. von, 19 Lever, Charles, 196 Lewes, George Henry, 93 Lincoln, Abraham, 36 Livy, 293 Locke, John, 194 Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 126 Lockhart, John G., 161 Longfellow, Henry W., 48 Lovelace, Richard, 314 Lover, Samuel, 321 Lowell, James Russell, 43 Lubbock, Sir John, 102 Lucan, 295 Lucian, 297 Lucretius, 293 Luther, Martin, 244 Lyly, John, 307 Lyte, Henry Francis, 131 Lyttleton, Lord George, 319 Lytton, Earl of, 243 Lytle, William Haines, 239

Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 270 Macaulay, Lord, 233 Macdonald, George, 245 Machiavelli, Niccolo, 108 Mackay, Charles, 71 Mackenzie, Henry, 180 Mackintosh, Sir James, 232 Macleod, Norman, 132 Macpherson, James, 233 Madison, James, 64 Maeterlinck, Maurice, 195 Maginn, William, 246 Mahaffy, John P., 48 Malory, Sir Thomas, 302 Mann, Horace, 110 Manning, Henry Edward, 162 Marguerite d'Angoulême, 304 Markham, Edwin, 98 Marlowe, Christopher, 308 Marryat, Frederick, 158 Martial, 298 Martineau, Harriet, 138 Marvell, Andrew, 75 Massey, Gerald, 126 Massillon, Jean Baptiste, 145 Massinger, Philip, 311 Masson, David, 263 Matthews, Brander, 41 Maupassant, Guy de, 177 Maurice, Frederick D., 194 Mazzini, Joseph, 148 Meredith, George, 37 Mérimée, Prosper, 215 Merivale, Charles, 59 McCarthy, Justin, 254 McMaster, John B., 149 Michelangelo, 58 Michelet, Jules, 189 Mickiewicz, Adam, 277 Mickle, William J., 214 Middleton, Thomas, 309 Mill, John Stuart, 118 Miller, Cincinnatus H., 245 Miller, Hugh, 224 Miller, William, 186 Milman, Henry Hart, 36 Milton, John, 267 Mitchell, Donald G., 89 Mitchell, S. Weir, 39 Molière, 12 Montagu, Lady, 123 Montaigne, 50 Montesquieu, 14 Montgomery, James, 240 Moody, William V., 157 Moore, Clement Clarke, 161 Moore, Edward, 68 Moore, Thomas, 125 More, Hannah, 29 More, Sir Thomas, 33 Morley, John, 277 Morris, George Pope, 224 Morris, Sir Lewis, 145 Morris, William, 70 Motherwell, William, 225 Motley, John Lothrop, 90 Moulton, Louise C., 88 Muhlenberg, William A., 206 Müller, Friedrich Max, 265 Musset, Alfred de, 247 Myers, Frederick William Henry, 32

Nadaud, Gustave, 42 Nairne, Lady, 320 Neale, Walter, 18 Newman, John Henry, 41 Newton, Sir Isaac, 6 Niebuhr, Barthold Georg, 193 Noel, Thomas, 113 Norton, Lady Caroline, 322 Novalis, 108 Noyes, Alfred, 207

Oehlenschlager, Adam G., 250 O'Keefe, John B., 145 Oldys, William, 160 Oliphant, Margaret Wilson, 82 O'Mahony, Francis, 321 O'Reilly, John Boyle, 148 Osgood, Mrs. Frances, 141 Otway, Thomas, 57 Ouida, 6 Ovid, 67

Paine, Robert T., Jr., 267 Paine, Thomas, 24 Paley, William, 146 Palfrey, John G., 108 Palgrave, Francis T., 215 Palmer, Ray, 248 Pardoe, Julia, 268 Parmenides, 286 Parker, Theodore, 191 Parkman, Francis, 206 Parnell, Thomas, 317 Parton, James, 35 Parsons, Thomas W., 188 Pascal, Blaise, 141 Pater, Walter, 177 Patmore, Coventry K. D., 166 Paulding, James K., 190 Payne, J. Howard, 135 Peele, George, 306 Pellico, Silvio, 145 Penn, William, 225 Pepys, Samuel, 45 Percy, Thomas, 90 Persius, 295 Petöfi, Alexander, 4 Petrarch, 164 Phelps, William Lyon, 5 Phillips, Stephen, 170 Phillips, Wendell, 258 Piatt, Sarah M., 181 Pierpont, John, 85 Pindar, 287 Plato, 289 Plautus, 291 Pliny, the Elder, 295 Pliny, the Younger, 297 Plutarch, 297 Poe, Edgar Allan, 17 Pollok, Robert, 229 Polybius, 291 Pope, Alexander, 119 Porter, Jane, 211 Praed, Winthrop M., 168 Prentice, George D., 273 Prescott, William H., 109 Preston, Harriet W., 12 Preston, Margaret J., 273 Priestley, Joseph, 63 Prime, William Cowper, 236 Prior, Matthew, 165 Procter, Adelaide Anne, 235 Procter, Bryan Waller, 253 Propertius, 294

Quarles, Francis, 312 Quiller-Couch, A. T., 253 Quincy, Josiah, 20 Quintilian, 295

Rabelais, François, 304 Racine, 274 Raleigh, Sir Walter, 306 Ramsay, Allan, 226 Randall, James Rider, 15 Randolph, Thomas, 140 Read, Thomas, B., 62 Reade, Charles, 134 Renan, Joseph Ernest, 49 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 162 Rhodes, James Ford, 107 Rhodes, William B., 278 Richardson, Samuel, 317 Richter, Jean Paul, 67 Riley, James Whitcomb, 222 Ritchie, Lady Anne, 136 Roberts, Charles G. D., 9 Robertson, Frederick W., 30 Rochefoucauld, François Duc de la, 205 Roche, James J., 128 Roe, E. P., 59 Rogers, Samuel, 170 Roland, Madame, 65 Rollin, Charles, 24 Roosevelt, Theodore, 234 Rossetti, Christina G., 264 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 114 Rostand, Edmond, 79 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 147 Rowe, Nicholas, 149 Ruffini, Giovanni, 201 Ruskin, John, 34 Rufus, Quintus, 295 Russell, Lord John, 187 Russell, William Clark, 46