To harp on one's illnesses, giving all the symptoms and circumstances, has been a blemish on conversation for ages. Two hundred years ago Swift complained of persons who continually talked about themselves. (Volume 27, Harvard Classics)
Jonathan Swift born Nov. 30, 1667.
Introductory Note: Charles Lamb
On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, by Charles Lamb
Introductory Note: Thomas Dekker
The Shoemaker’s Holiday (Act I & II), by Thomas Dekker
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species (Ch. 1 Variation under Domestication), by Charles Darwin
Introductory Note: Blaise Pascal
Thoughts (The Misery Of Man Without God), by Blaise Pascal
Introductory Note: Virgil
The Æneid (The Passion of the Queen), by Virgil
Introductory Note: Voltaire
Letters on the English (On Inoculation), by Voltaire
Introductory Note: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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Introductory Note: Alfred Tennyson
Morte d’Arthur, by Alfred Tennyson
Introductory Note: Friedrich von Schiller
William Tell (Act III, Scene III), by Friedrich von Schiller
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
Sir Walter Scott, by Thomas Carlyle
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