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Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 2 - Carlyle)

John Morley

The new library edition of Mr. Carlyle's works may be taken for the final presentation of all that the author has to say to his contemporaries, and to possess the settled form in which he wishes his w..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 3 - Byron)

John Morley

It is one of the singular facts in the history of literature, that the most rootedly conservative country in Europe should have produced the poet of the Revolution. Nowhere is the antipathy to princip..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (Essay 4 - Macaulay )

John Morley

'After glancing my eye over the design and order of a new book,' says Gibbon, 'I suspended the perusal till I had finished the task of self-examination, till I had revolved in a solitary walk all that..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (Essay 1 - Vauvenargues )

John Morley

One of the most important phases of French thought in the great century of its illumination is only thoroughly intelligible, on condition that in studying it we keep constantly in mind the eloquence, ..

Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 2 (Essay 2 - Condorcet)

John Morley

Of the illustrious thinkers and writers who for two generations had been actively scattering the seed of revolution in France, only Condorcet survived to behold the first bitter in gathering of the ha..

A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of William Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. It portrays events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, and the..

Endymion

Benjamin D'israeli

Endymion is a novel published in 1880 by Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, the former Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was paid £10,000 for it. It was the last novel Di..

The Song of Roland

Moncrief

The Song of Roland is an epic poem based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major work of French literature and exists in various manus..