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Milton's Poems
by John Milton
Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...
The Federalist, or, The New Constitution
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
To the People of the State of New York: AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal go...
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing and the Romantic Comedies Shakespeare's three great romantic comedies, so widely studied and perf...
The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce
ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound...
La Divina Commedia
by Dante Alighieri
To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft
IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...
The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper
IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...