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)
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Faust (Part I), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Introductory Note: Robert Burns
Poems, by Robert Burns
Introductory Note: Jean Froissart
The Chronicles of Froissart (The Campaign of Crecy), by Jean Froissart
Introductory Note: Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
The Tides, by Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin)
Introductory Note: Pliny the Younger
Pliny's Letters, by Pliny the Younger
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On the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years Before the Mast (Ch. XV), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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The Confessions of St. Augustine (Book VIII), by Saint Augustine
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Paradise Lost (Book IV), by John Milton
Introductory Note: Ambroise Paré
Journeys in Diverse Places, by Ambroise Paré
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