About this book
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
ON THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND on Vocal CULTURE.
Hiram Corson. 15
What is Literature?................ ...... Thomas De Quincey. 49
On the refining and elevating influence of Poetry.....
William Ellery Channing. 57
The Church of Brou........
Matthew Arnold. 61
Description of a Country Gentleman of the Seventeenth
Century.....
.Thomas Babington Macaulay. 69
Á Rill from the Town Pump ...........Nathaniel Hawthorne. 73
The Wreck of the Hesperus.... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 78
Squire Bull and his son Jonathan.....James Kirke Paulding. 82
The Alpine Sheep .....................Mrs. Maria White Lowell. 86
Spring.........
..N. P. Willis. 88
Best method of Reading ....
.... Henry Reed. 89
A literary Criticism.....
.........Joseph Dennie. 91
The height of the Ridiculous ......... Oliver Wendell Holmes. 100
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire....
Edward Gibbon. 101
Gibbon's First Love.....
Edward Gibbon. 104
The Blind Preacher ....
William Wirt. 107
The Sea and the Mountains............ Oliver Wendell Holmes. 112
My Kate ......
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 114
Literature and Learning in the reign of Charles II..
Thomas Babington Macaulay. 116
The Human Voice....
...Oliver Wendell Holmes. 126
.....
Extracts from “Aurora Leigh”...Elizabeth B. Browning. 131-134
English Landscape........
131
Life .............
132
The Soul's intimations of Immortality..........
133
London ...............
134
London.........
Heinrich Heine. 136
The Song of Deborah and Barak............... Book of Judges. 137
Incident at Bruges......
William Wordsworth. 140
Monk Felix......... ...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 142
The tendency of nations to over-estimate the Past, and de-
preciate the Present......... Thomas Babington Macaulay. 147
Scorn not the Sonnet............... .... William Wordsworth. 149
The World is too much with us.. William Wordsworth. 150
Milton.........
William Wordsworth. 151
Silence....
Thomas Hood. 151
Fancy in Nubibus; or, the Poet in the Clouds...............
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 152
God's power and providence illustrated in the Animal King-
dom.........
Book of Job. 153
Belshazzar's Feast......
Book of Daniel. 155
Rural Life in Sweden..........Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 159
Passages from the Marble Faun.... Nathaniel Hawthorne. 168–179
The Faun of Praxiteles
168
The Dying Gladiator
171
Description of a Fountain......
...... 172
Needle-work
173
The Italian Climate...
174
On the appreciation of a Picture..........
175
Description of Saint Peter's......
.... 175
Guido's Beatrice.....
177
Rome.........
179
Songs and Lyrics from “The Princess”..Alfred Tennyson. 181–185
Reconciliation over a Child's Grave...........
181
Cradle Song..........
182
Bugle Song.........
The Days that are no more....
183
The Dead Warrior
184
Ask me no more
185
Tho Saxon and Latin elements of the English language;-
the peculiar province of each in poetic diction.............
Thomas De Quincey. 186
Višit of the Wise Men to the infant Saviour, and the Flight
into Egypt..........
Gospel of St. Matthew. 189
Parable of the Prodigal Son .......... Gospel of St. Luke. 192
Christ and the Woman of Samaria........ Gospel of St. John. 194
Lady Clara Vere de Vere......... ...Alfred Tennyson. 197
The Lord of Burleigh
.Alfred Tennyson. 200
Parallel between the Portraits of Byron and Shelley.........
George Gilfillan. 204
Intellectual qualities of Milton... William Ellery Channing. 205
The Skeleton in Armour ........
....Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 208
Don Quixote.........
.Henry Giles. 215
Godiva.........
...Leigh Hunt. 217
Godiva.......
.....Alfred Tennyson. 223
Youth and Age ....
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 226
Love; or, Genevieve.................... Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 228
The Palimpsest..........
Thomas De Quincey. 232
Ode to a Nightingale.........
.........John Keats. 240
To a Lady with a Guitar
..Percy Bysshe Shelley. 243
“He giveth his beloved Sleep”...Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 247
Cowper's Grave ..........
..Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 249
“Break, Break, Break”..
. Alfred Tennyson. 252
The Dream of Eugene Aram.......
.Thomas Hood. 253
The Portraits of Shakspeare and Goethe ....... David Masson. 262
The Humble Bee............ ..........Ralph Waldo Emerson. 268
The Execution. A sporting anecdote .....R. Harris Burham. 271
A Dead Rose........ ............, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 278
Chaucer ..........
.........
.......
a
Garden Fancies.........
.........Robert Browning. 279
Hiram Corson. 281
" Tribulation”—the Etymology of the Word......
Richard Chenevix Trench. 289
June.........
........James Russell Lowell. 292
The Voiceless........... ...........Oliver Wendell Holmes. 296
The Chambered Nautilus............... Oliver Wendell Holmes. 297
The Panther
...Leigh Hunt. 299
Description of a Spanish Bull-fight..................Lord Byron. 302
The Raven.......
.Edgar Allan Poe. 305
The Bells...
....Edgar Allan Poe. 313
Ulalume
.Edgar Allan Poe. 317
To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down with the Plough
in April, 1786 .....
..Robert Burns. 321
Sublimity of the Prophet Isaiah ......... Bishop Robert Lowth. 323
The Three Ladies of Sorrow....... Thomas De Quincey. 327
Sir Galahad ....
...Alfred Tennyson. 332
Intimations of Immortality from recollections of early child-
hood ....
William Wordsworth. 335
Boswell's Life of Johnson ;— how “Histories” are written...
Thomas Carlyle. 343
Morte D'Arthur .........
....Alfred Tennyson. 351
Ode to the West Wind............. ..Percy Bysshe Shelley. 368
The Beauty of the Outer World a reflex of a pure and joyous
soul................ ....... Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 372
Extract from “ Christabel”. ........ Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 373
Passages from “ The Paradise Lost”.........John Milton. 381-394
Satan recovers from his downfall and arouses his le-
gions who lie entranced on the burning lake............ 381
Description of Satan........
383
Pandemonium and its architect..........
Satan on the wing for Earth, and his meeting with
Sin and Death at Hell gates.........
386
The expulsion of the rebel angels from Heaven............ 389
