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The Works of John Dryden

John Dryden

John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to su..

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages)

Noah Webster

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) compiled by Noah Webster, an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and proli..

Book of Wise Saying

W. A. Clouston

Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by William Alexander Clouston Cynics may ask, how many have profited by the innumerable proverbs and maxims of prudence which have been curre..

Macmillan's Reading Books

Anonymous

This seems a fitting place in which to explain the general aim of this series of Reading Books. Primarily, it is intended to provide a systematic course for use in schools which are under State inspec..

Studien und Plaudereien. First Series

Sigmon M. Stern

These "Studies and Chats" should not be regarded merely as a means of learning to speak a little German, though they may answer that purpose. They are rather to be treated as a substitute for the disj..

Chronicle of the Cid

Henry Morley

Robert Southey's "Chronicle of the Cid" is all translation from the Spanish, but is not translation from a single book. Its groundwork is that part of the Crónica General de España, the most ancient o..

The Congo and Other Poems

Vachel Lindsay

The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms — as sounds and rhythms — and includes elaborate annotations..

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the ..