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Adams, Charles F.

Adams, John

Adams, John, note ,

Adams, John Quincy ,

Adams, Sarah Flower

Addison, Joseph

Ady, Thomas

Æschines, note

Æschylus

Agricola, note

Akenside, Mark

Alanus de Insulis, note

Aldrich, James

Ali Ben Taleb

Allen, Elizabeth A.

Alphonso the Wise

Amelia, Princess

Ames, Fisher, note

Archilochus, note

Ariosto, note

Aristides, note

Aristophanes, note

Aristotle, note ,

Armstrong, John

Arnold, Matthew

Arnold, Samuel J., note

Arrianus, note

Athenæus

Avonmore, Lord, note

Bacon, Francis

Bacon, Lady Anne, note

Bailey, Philip James

Baillie, Joanna

Bancroft, George, note

Barbauld, Mrs.

Barère, Bertrand

Barham, R. H.

Barker, Theodore L.

Barnfield, Richard

Barrett, Eaton S.

Barrington, George

Barrow, Isaac, note

Barry, Michael J.

Basse, William, note

Baxter, Richard

Bayard, Chevalier, note

Bayle, Peter, note

Bayly, T. Haynes

Beattie, James

Beaumont and Fletcher

Beaumont, Francis

Beaumont, John, note

Bee, Bernard E.

Bell, Robert, note

Bellamy, G. W.

Bellinghausen, Von Münch

Bentham, Jeremy

Bentley, Richard

Benton, Thomas H.

Berkeley, Bishop

Berners, Juliana, note

Berry, Dorothy, note

Bertaut, Jean, note

Bertin, Mademoiselle, note

Bettelheim, A. S., note

Bickerstaff, Isaac

Blacker, Colonel

Blackmore, Richard, note

Blackstone, Sir William

Blair, Robert

Blamire, Susanna

Bland, Robert, note

Bobart, Jacob, note

Bodinus, note

Bodley, Sir Thomas, note

Boethius, note

Boileau

Bolingbroke

Booth, Barton

Borbonius, note

Bourdillon, Francis W.

Bracton

Brainard, John G. C.

[viii]Bramston, James

Breen, H. H., note

Brereton, Jane

Breton, Nicholas, note

Bromley, Isaac H.

Brooke, Lord

Brougham, Lord

Brougham, Lord, note

Brown, John

Brown, Tom

Browne, Sir Thomas

Browne, William

Browning, Elizabeth B.

Browning, Robert

Bryant, William Cullen

Brydges, Sir S. Egerton

Buffon, note

Bulfinch, Samuel G., note

Bunn, Alfred

Bunsen, Carl Josias, note

Bunyan, John

Burchard, Samuel D.

Burke, Edmund

Burnet, Gilbert, note

Burns, Robert

Burton, Robert

Bussy de Rabutin, note

Butler, Samuel

Butler, Samuel, note

Byrd, William, note

Byrom, John

Byron, Lord

Calhoun, John C.

Callimachus, note

Campbell, Lord, note ,

Campbell, Thomas

Camden, William

Cambronne, note

Canning, George

Carew, Thomas

Carey, Henry

Carlyle, Thomas

Carpenter, Joseph E.

Carruthers, Robert, note

Catinat, Marshal, note

Catullus, note

Centlivre, Susannah

Cervantes

Channing, William E.

Chapman, George

Charles I., note

Charron, note

Chase, Salmon P.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Cherry, Andrew

Chesterfield, Earl of

Child, Lydia Maria

Choate, Rufus

Chorley, Henry F.

Christy, David

Church, Benjamin, note

Churchill, Charles

Cibber, Colley

Cibber, Colley, note

Cicero

Clarendon, Edward Hyde

Clarke, John, note

Clarke, Macdonald

Clay, Henry

Clay, Henry, note

Cleveland, Grover

Codrington, Christopher, note

Coke, Sir Edward

Coleridge, Hartley

Coleridge, S. Taylor

Coleridge, S. Taylor, note

Collins, William

Colman, George

Colton, C. C.

Congreve, William

Constable, Henry, note

Constant, Henry B.

Cook, Eliza

Cooper, J. Fenimore, note

Cornuel, Madame, note

Cotton, Nathaniel

Cowley, Abraham

Cowper, William

Crabbe, George

Cranch, Christopher P.

Cranfield, note

Crashaw, Richard

Crawford, Anne

Cristyne, note

Crockett, David

Croker, John W., note

Cunningham, Allan

Curran, John P.

Curtius, Quintus, note

D'Abrantes, Duc

D'Abrantes, Madame, note

Dalrymple, Sir John, note

Dance, Charles

Daniel, Samuel

Dante

Danton, note

Darwin, Charles

Darwin, Erasmus

Darwin, Erasmus, note

Davenant, Sir William

Davie, Adam, note

[ix]Davies, Scrope

Davies, Sir John

Davis, Jefferson

Davis, Thomas O.

De Benserade, Isaac

Debrett, John, note

Decatur, Stephen

De Caux, note

Deffand, Madame du

Defoe, Daniel

Dekker, Thomas

De la Ferté, note

De Ligne

De L'Isle, Joseph R.

Demodocus, note

De Morgan, note

Demosthenes

Denham, Sir John

Denman, Lord

Dennis, John

De Quincey, note

Dibdin, Charles

Dibdin, Thomas

Dickens, Charles

Dickinson, John

Dickman, Franklin J., note

Didacus Stella, note

Diogenes Laertius

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, note

Dionysius the Elder

Disraeli, Benjamin

Dix, John A.

Doddridge, Philip

Dodsley, Robert

Domett, Alfred

Donne, John

Dowling, Bartholomew

Drake, Joseph Rodman

Drayton, Michael

Drennan, William

Drummond, Thomas

Drummond, William

Drummond, William note

Dryden, John

Du Bartas

Dufferin, Lady

Dumas, Alexandre, note

Duncombe, Lewis, note

D'Urfey, note

Dwight, Timothy

Dyer, Edward

Dyer, John

Dyer ——

Eastwick, note

Edgeworth, Maria, note

Edwards, Richard

Edwards, Thomas

Edwin, John

Elliot, Jared, note

Elliott, Jane

Ellis, George, note

Ellis, Henry

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, note

Emmet, Robert

English, Thomas Dunn

Epictetus

Erasmus, note , , ,

Estienne, Henri, note

Euripides

Euripides, note

Everett, David

Everett, Edward

Faber, Frederick W.

Fanshawe, Catherine M.

Farquhar, George

Fénelon, note

Ferriar, John

Field, Nathaniel

Fielding, Henry

Finch, Francis M.

Fitz-Geffrey, Charles, note

Fletcher, Andrew

Fletcher, Julia A.

Fletcher, John

Fletcher, Phineas, note

Foote, Samuel

Ford, John

Fordyce, James

Fortescue, John

Fouché, Joseph

Fournier, note

Fox, Charles J., note

Fox, John, note

Francis the First, note

Franck, Richard, note

Franklin, Benjamin

Franklin, Kate

Freneau, Philip

Frere, J. Hookham

Frothingham, Richard, note

Fuller, Thomas

Fuller, Thomas, note

Gage, Thomas, note

Garrick, David

Garrison, William L.

Garth, Samuel

Garth, Samuel, note

Gascoigne, George, note

Gay, John

[x]Getty, Rev. Dr., note

Gibbon, Edward

Gibbons, Thomas

Gifford, Richard

Goethe, Wolfgang von

Goldsmith, Oliver

Goldsmith, Oliver, note ,

Googe, Barnaby, note ,

Gorgias, note

Gosson, Stephen, note

Gower, John, note

Grafton, Richard

Granger, James, note

Grant, Anne

Grant, Ulysses S.

Graves, Richard

Graves, Richard, note

Gray, Thomas

Green, Matthew

Greene, Albert G.

Greene, Robert, note

Greswell, note

Greville, Mrs.

Griffin, Gerald

Gualtier, Phillippe, note

Guarini, note

Habington, William, note

Hakewill, George

Hakewill, George, note

Hale, Edward E.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

Hall, Bishop

Hall, Robert

Halleck, Fitz-Greene

Halliwell, James O.

Halliwell, James O., note

Hamilton, Alexander, note

Hammond, J. H.

Hannah, J., note

Hare, Julius, note

Harrington, Sir John

Harrison, William

Harte, Francis Bret

Harvey, Stephen

Hawker, Robert

Hawker, Robert S., note

Hayes, Edward, note

Hayes, Rutherford B.

Heath, Leonard

Heber, Reginald

Hegge, Robert, note

Hemans, Felicia D.

Hénault, note

Hendyng, note

Henry, Mathew

Henry, Patrick

Henshaw, Joseph

Herbert, George

Herodotus, note ,

Herrick, Robert

Hervey, Thomas K.

Hesiod

Heywood, John

Heywood, Thomas

Hill, Aaron

Hill, Rowland

Hippocrates

Hobbes, Thomas

Hoffman, Charles F.

Holcroft, Thomas

Holland, Sir Richard

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Home, John

Hood, Thomas

Hooker, Joseph

Hooker, Richard

Hooper, Ellen Sturgis

Hopkins, Charles, note

Hopkinson, Joseph

Horace

Horne, Bishop

Horne, Richard H.

Howard, Samuel

Howell, James, note , ,

Howitt, Mary

Hoyle, Edmund

Hume, David

Hume, David, note ,

Hunt, Leigh

Hurd, Richard

Hurdis, James

Hutcheson, Francis

Ingram, John K.

Irving, Washington

Jackson, Andrew

James, G. P. R.

James, Paul M.

Jefferson, Thomas

Jefferys, Charles

Jerrold, Douglas

Johnson, Andrew

Johnson, Samuel

Johnson, Samuel, note , ,

Jones, Sir William

Jonson, Ben

Juvenal

Keats, John

Keble, John

Kemble, Frances Anne

[xi]Kemble, J. P.

Kempis, Thomas à

Ken, Thomas

Kenney, James

Kenrick, William, note

Kepler, John

Key, Francis S.

Key, T. H., note

King, William, note

Kinglake, John A.

Kingsley, Charles

Knight, Charles, note

Knolles, Richard, note

Knowles, James S.

Knox, William

Kotzebue, Von

La Fontaine

Lamb, Charles

Lamb, Charles, note

Landor, Walter S.

Langford, G. W.

Langhorne, John

La Rochefoucauld

Layard, Austen H.

Lee, Henry

Lee, Nathaniel

Leighton, Archbishop, note

Lemon, Mark

Le Sage

L'Estrange, Roger

Leutsch and Schneidewin, note

Ligne, Prince de

Lincoln, Abraham

Linley, George

Linschoten, Hugh van

Livy, note

Lloyd, David, note

Lockhart, John G.

Lockhart, John G., note ,

Logan, John

Logau, Friedrich von

Longfellow, Henry W.

Lovelace, Richard

Lover, Samuel

Lowe, John

Lowell, James Russell

Lowth, Robert

Lucretius

Lydgate, John, note

Luther, Martin

Lyly, John

Lyttelton, Lord

Lytton, Sir E. Bulwer

Macaulay, Thomas B.

Macaulay, Thomas B., note, , ,

Mackay, Charles

Mackintosh, James

Mackintosh, James, note

Macklin, Charles

Madden, Samuel

Mahon, Lord

Mahon, Lord, note ,

Manners, Lord John

Marcus Aurelius

Marcy, William L.

Markham, Gervase, note

Marlowe, Christopher

Marmion, Shakerley, note

Martial

Martin, Henri, note

Marvell, Andrew

Mason, William

Massinger, Philip

McMaster, John B., note

Maule

Mee, William

Melchior, note

Menander, note

Merrick, James

Meurier, Gabriel, note

Michelangelo

Mickle, William J.

Middleton, Thomas

Miller, William

Milman, Henry Hart

Milnes, Richard M.

Milton, John

Mimnermus

Miner, Charles

Molière

Monnoye, Bernard de la, note

Montagu, Mary Wortley

Montagu, Mary Wortley, note

Montaigne

Montgomery, James

Montgomery, Robert

Montrose, Marquis of

Moore, Clement C.

Moore, Edward

Moore, Thomas

More, Hannah

More, Sir Thomas, note ,

Morell, Thomas, note

Morgan, M. H.

Morris, Charles

Morris, George P.

Morton, Thomas

Moss, Thomas

Motherwell, William

Muhlenberg, William A.

Mulock, Dinah M.

[xii]Münster, Ernst F., note

Murphy, Arthur

Nairne, Lady

Napier, Sir W. F. P.

Napoleon Bonaparte, note

Napoleon, Louis, note

Nash, Thomas

Nelson, Horatio

Newton, Isaac

Noel, Thomas

Norris, John

Northbrooke, note

Norton, Caroline E. S.

O'Hara, Kane

O'Hara, Theodore

O'Keefe, John

O'Kelley, Captain

Oldham, John, note

Oldys, William

Oliphant, Thomas, note

Omar Khayyám

O'Meara, Barry E.

Orrery, Roger B., note

Ortin, Job, note

Otway, Thomas

Overbury, Sir Thomas

Ovid

Oxenstiern, note

Paine, Robert Treat

Paine, Thomas

Paine, Thomas, note

Paley, William

Panat, Chevalier de, note

Pardoe, Julia ,

Parker, Martyn

Parker, Theodore

Parnell, Thomas

Pascal

Pascal, note

Payne, J. Howard

Peele, George , ,

Percival, James G.

Percy, Thomas

Perry, Oliver H.

Persius, note ,

Petrarch, note

Phædrus

Philips, Ambrose

Philips, John

Phillips, Charles

Phillips, Wendell

Philostratus, note

Pierpont, John

Pilpay

Pinckney, Charles C.

Piozzi, Madame, note ,

Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Pitt, William

Pitt, William (the younger)

Plato, note

Plautus

Playford, John

Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Younger

Plutarch

Poe, Edgar A.

Pollok, Robert

Pomfret, John

Pompadour, Madame de, note

Pope, Alexander

Pope, Walter

Porter, Horace

Porter, Mrs. David

Porteus, Beilby

Potter, Henry C.

Powell, Sir John

Praed, Winthrop M.

Priestley, Joseph

Prior, James, note

Prior, Matthew

Proclus, note ,

Procter, Bryan W.

Publius Syrus

Pulteney, William

Quarles, Francis

Quincy, Josiah, Jr.

Quincy, Josiah

Quintilian

Quitard, note

Rabelais

Racine, note ,

Radcliffe, Ann

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Ramsay, Allan

Randall, H. S.

Ranke, Leopold, note

Ransford, Edwin

Raspe, note

Ravenscroft, Thomas

Ray, William, note

Rhodes, William B.

Richards, Amelia B., note

Robinson, Mary

Rochester, Earl of

Rogers, Samuel

[xiii]Roland, Madame

Roscommon, Earl of

Rousseau

Rowe, Nicholas

Roydon, Mathew

Rumbold, Richard

Russell, W. S.

Saint Augustine

Saint Simon, note

Sala, George A., note

Sales, Saint Francis de, note

Salis, Von

Sallust, note

Salvandy, Comte de, note

Sandys, Sir Edwin, note

Sargent, Epes

Savage, Richard

Scarron, note

Schelling, note

Schidoni

Schiller

Scott, Sir Walter

Scott, Sir Walter, note

Scott, Winfield

Sears, Edmund H.

Sebastiani, General, note

Sedaine, Michel J.

Sedley, Charles

Selden, John

Selvaggi, note

Seneca

Sévigné, Madame de, note ,

Sewall, Harriet W.

Sewall, Jonathan M.

Seward, Thomas, note

Seward, William H.

Sewell, George

Shaftesbury, Earl of, note

Shakespeare, William

Sharman, Julian, note

Sheffield

Shelley, Percy B.

Shelley, Percy B., note

Shenstone, William

Sheres, Sir Henry, note

Sherman, William T.

Sheridan, R. Brinsley

Shirley, James

Sidney, Algernon

Sidney, Sir Philip

Silius Italicus, note

Sirmond, John

Sismondi, note

Skelton, John

Smart, Christopher, note

Smith, Adam

Smith, Alexander

Smith, Captain John, note

Smith, Edmund, note

Smith, Horace

Smith, James

Smith, Samuel F.

Smith, Seba

Smith, Sydney

Smollett, Tobias

Smyth, William, note

Socrates, note

Somerville, William, note

Sophocles

Sophocles, note

Sorbienne, note

South, Robert, note

Southerne, Thomas

Southey, Robert ,

Southwell, Robert, note

Sparks, Jared, note

Spencer, Herbert

Spencer, William R.

Spenser, Edmund

Sprague, Charles

Staël, Madame de, note ,

Steele, Sir Richard

Steers, Fanny

Sterne, Laurence

Sternhold, Thomas

Stevens, George A.

Stiles, Ezra

Still, Bishop

Stolberg, Christian, note

Story, Joseph

Stoughton, William

Stowell, Lord

Suckling, Sir John

Suetonius, note

Sumner, Charles

Swift, Jonathan

Tacitus

Talfourd, Thomas N.

Taney, Roger B.

Tate and Brady

Taylor, Bayard

Taylor, Henry

Taylor, Jane and Ann

Taylor, Jeremy, note ,

Taylor, John

Taylor, John, note

Temple, Sir William

Tennyson, Alfred

Terence

Tertullian

[xiv]Theobald, Louis

Theocritus, note

Theognis

Thomas, Frederick W.

Thomson, James

Thrale, Mrs.

Thucydides, note

Thurlow, Lord

Tibullus, note

Tickell, Thomas

Tillotson, John

Titus, Colonel, note

Tobin, John

Tolowiez, note

Toplady, Augustus M.

Tourneur, Cyril

Townley, James

Trumbull, John

Tucker, Dean

Tuke, Samuel

Tupper, Martin F.

Tusser, Thomas

Uhland, Johann L.

Unknown Authors

Usteri, J. M.

Valerius Maximus, note

Vanbrugh, Sir John

Van Buren, Martin, note

Vandyk, H. S.

Varro, note

Vaughan, Henry

Vauvenargues

Vegetius, note

Venning, Ralph

Villon

Virgil, note , ,

Volney, note

Voltaire

Voss, J. H., note

Wade, J. A.

Walker, William

Wallace, Horace B., note

Waller, Edmund

Walpole, Horace

Walpole, Horace, note

Walpole, Sir Robert

Walpole, Sir Robert, note

Walton, Izaak

Warburton, Thomas

Warner, William

Ward, Thomas

Warton, Thomas

Washington, George

Watson, William

Watts, Isaac

Webster, Daniel

Webster, John

Welby, Amelia B.

Wellington, Duke of

Wells, William V.

Wesley, Charles

Wesley, John

Whetstone, George, note

Whewell, William, note

White, Henry Kirke, note

Whittier, John G.

Wight, Rezin A.

Wilde, Richard H.

Willard, Emma

Williams, Helen M.

Williams, Roger, note

Willis, Nathaniel P.

Willis, Nathaniel P., note

Wilson, Alexander

Wilson, John, note

Wilson, Mrs. C. B.

Winslow, Edward, note

Winthrop, John

Winthrop, Robert C.

Wither, George

Wolcot, John

Wolfe, Charles

Wolfe, James

Woodworth, Samuel

Wordsworth, William

Wotton, Sir Henry

Wrother, Miss

Wycherley, William, note

Yalden, Thomas, note

Yonge, Nicholas, note

Young, Edward

Young, Sir John, note

Zamoyski, Jan, note

Zouch, Thomas, note


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