We are indebted to Thomas Dekker for one of the most humorous characters in all Elizabethan literature; namely, Simon Eyre, an old shoemaker whose affairs became hilariously involved with those of the gentry. (Volume 47, Harvard Classics)
Introductory Note: Giuseppe Mazzini
Byron and Goethe, by Giuseppe Mazzini
Introductory Note: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Fisherman and His Wife, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Introductory Note: Marcus Tullius Cicero
On Friendship (Part I), by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Introductory Note: John Milton
Poems Written in School and College, by John Milton
Introductory Note: Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Ch. IX), by Benjamin Franklin
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
Inaugural Address at Edinburgh University, by Thomas Carlyle
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years before the Mast (Ch. XIII), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Introductory Note: Homer
The Odyssey (Book XXII), by Homer
Introductory Note: Sir Francis Drake
Drake’s Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XVII), by Charles Darwin
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