31. Speech of Walpole in Reproof of Mr. Pitt.
32. Pitt's Reply to Sir Robert Walpole .
33. Character of Mr. Pitt

Charles Sumner. 148

Sir R. Walpole. 151

William Pitt.

Henry Grattan.

152

154

Adeline D. Train Whitney. 185

46. God's Goodness to Such as Fear Him

47. Character of Columbus

48. "He Giveth His Beloved Sleep."

49. Description of a Siege

50. Marco Bozzaris

Washington Irving. 192

Elizabeth B. Browning. 195

Sir Walter Scott.

Fitz-Greene Halleck.

197

202

61. The Quarrel of Brutus and Cassius. William Shakespeare. 234

74. Diamond cut Diamond. Édouard René Lefebvre-Laboulaye. 269

75. Thanatopsis

76. Indian Jugglers

77. Antony over Cæsar's Dead Body

78. The English Character

79. The Song of the Potter.

80. A Hot Day in New York

81. Discontent.-An Allegory .

82. Jupiter and Ten .

William Cullen Bryant. 275

William Hazlitt. 278

William Shakespeare. 281

William Hickling Prescott. 286

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 290

William Dean Howells. 292

83. Scene from "The Poor Gentleman

84. My Mother's Picture

85. Death of Samson

86. An Evening Adventure

87. The Barefoot Boy

88. The Glove and the Lions

89. The Folly of Intoxication.

90. Starved Rock

91. Prince Henry and Falstaff.

92. Studies

John Greenleaf Whittier. 317

James Henry Leigh Hunt. 321

William Shakespeare. 322

Francis Parkman. 325

William Shakespeare. 327

Sir Francis Bacon. 332

93. Surrender of Granada. Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton. 334

94. Hamlet's Soliloquy

William Shakespeare. 339

TITLE.

95. Ginevra

96. Inventions and Discoveries

97. Enoch Arden at the Window .

98. Lochinvar

99. Speech on the Trial of a Murderer

100. The Closing Year

101. A New City in Colorado

102. Importance of the Union

103. The Influences of the Sun

104. Colloquial Powers of Franklin

105. The Dream of Clarence

106. Homeward Bound

107. Impeachment of Warren Hastings

108. Destruction of the Carnatic

109. The Raven .

110. A View of the Colosseum

111. The Bridge.

AUTHOR. PAGE.

Samuel Rogers. 340

John Caldwell Calhoun. 344

Alfred Tennyson. 347

Sir Walter Scott. 350

Daniel Webster. 352

George Denison Prentice. 355

Helen Hunt Jackson. 358

Daniel Webster. 362

Edgar Allan Poe.

Orville Dewey. 389

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 392

Robert Charles Winthrop. 394

112. Objects and Limits of Science

113. The Downfall of Poland

114. Labor

Lord Byron. 415

. John Brown. 417

Timothy Dwight. 419

Bible. 420

John Greenleaf Whittier. 424

Thomas Starr King. 426

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 429

Benjamin Franklin. 431

William Cullen Bryant. 434

William Makepeace Thackeray. 435

126. Franklin's Entry into Philadelphia.

127. Lines to a Waterfowl

128. Goldsmith and Addison

129. Immortality of the Soul

130. Character of Washington.

131. Eulogy on Washington

132. The Solitary Reaper.

133. Value of the Present

134. Happiness

135. Marion .

136. A Common Thought

137. A Definite Aim in Reading

138. Ode to Mt. Blanc

Joseph Addison. 438

Jared Sparks. 440

Ralph Waldo Emerson. 447

Alexander Pope.

William Gilmore Simms.

Henry Timrod. 45€

. Noah Porter. 457

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 462

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