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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

by Samuel Johnson

"YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that ...

1759 249 ed.
Poems
Poems

by Matthew Arnold

ONE lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee,

1853 107 ed.
Gedichte
Gedichte

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Here my garden is growing, the flowers of Eros I tend here; They are the Muse's own choice, bedded out wisely they bloom...

1700 136 ed.
Troilus and Cressida
Troilus and Cressida

by William Shakespeare

Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapperclawed with the palms of the vulgar,...

1609 759 ed.
Princesse de Clèves
Princesse de Clèves

by Madame de La Fayette, Everett Carll Ladd

THE last years of Henri II's reign saw a display of opulence and gallantry such as has never been equalled in France.

1678 417 ed.
Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar and Cleopatra

by George Bernard Shaw

IN the doorway of the temple of Ra in Memphis.

1900 94 ed.
Tartuffe
Tartuffe

by Molière

Come, come, Flipotte, and let me get away.

1707 96 ed.
Peer Gynt
Peer Gynt

by Henrik Ibsen

A slope of birch-trees near AASE's farm.

1867 111 ed.
Phèdre
Phèdre

by Jean Racine

Le dessein en est pris, je pars, cher Theramene,

1677 168 ed.
Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut

by Abbé Prévost

I MUST take you back to the time when I first met the Chevalier des Grieux.

1734 285 ed.
Le Balcon
Le Balcon

by Jean Genet

On the ceiling, a chandelier, which will remain the same in each scene.

1956 79 ed.
The complete works of Robert Browning Volume XVI
The complete works of Robert Browning Volume XVI

by Robert Browning, Daniel Karlin

Pauline, mine own, bend o'er me-thy soft breast

1800 185 ed.
The school for scandal, 1780
The school for scandal, 1780

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A school for Scandal! tell me, I beseech you,

1778 164 ed.
Agamemnon
Agamemnon

by Aeschylus

SCENE: Argos, Greece, in front of the palace of AGAMEMNON, the king, high on a hill overlooking the sea.

1816 145 ed.
Roman de la Rose
Roman de la Rose

by Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun

MANY men say that there is nothing in dreams but fables and lies, but one may have dreams which are not deceitful, whose...

1493 93 ed.
The Way of the World
The Way of the World

by William Congreve

My Lord,-Whether the world will arraign me of vanity or not, that I have presumed to dedicate this comedy to your lordsh...

1700 174 ed.
Lady Audley's secret
Lady Audley's secret

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

IT lay low down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of...

1862 221 ed.