Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern;
Charles Dudley Warner, editor; Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia
Gilbert Runkle, George H.
Charles Dudley Warner, editor; Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia
Gilbert Runkle, George H.
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LIBRARY
OF
THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
Ancient and Modern
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE,
GEORGE H. WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
THIRTY VOLUMES
VOL. III
NEW YORK
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
PUBLISHERS
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BY R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
All rights reserved
COMPANY
THE WERNER
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, Ph. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
President of the UNIVERSITY OF Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , Ph. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, Lit. D. ,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, Ph. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Literature in the 1. 1
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. III
LIVED
PAGE
1235
JENS BAGGESEN
1764-1826
A Cosmopolitan ('The Labyrinth ')
Philosophy on the Heath (same)
There was a Time when I was Very Little
1 243
Philip JAMES BAILEY
1816–
From (Festus): Life; The Passing-Bell; Thoughts,
Dreams; Chorus of the Saved
1253
JOANNA BAILLIE
1762-1851
Woo'd and Married and A'
It Was on a Morn when we were Thrang
Fy, Let Us A’ to the Wedding
The Weary Pund o' Tow
From De Montfort
To Mrs. Siddons
A Scotch Song
Song, Poverty Parts Good Company'
The Kitten
1272
HENRY MARTYN BAIRD
1832-
The Battle of Ivry (The Huguenots and Henry of Na-
varre)
1277
SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
1821-1893
Hunting in Abyssinia (“The Nile Tributaries of Abys-
sinia')
The Sources of the Nile ('The Albert Nyanza ')
1287
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR
1848–
The Pleasures of Reading (Rectorial Address)
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THE BALLAD (by F. B. Gummere)
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
The Hunting of the Cheviot
Johnie Cock
Sir Patrick Spens
The Bonny Earl of Murray
Mary Hamilton
Bonnie George Campbell
Bessie Bell and Mary Gray
1305
The Three Ravens
Lord Randal
Edward
The Twa Brothers
Babylon
Childe Maurice
The Wife of Usher's Well
Sweet William's Ghost
HONORÉ DE BALZAC (by William P. Trent) 1799-1850 1348
The Meeting in the Convent (The Duchess of Langeais')
An Episode Under the Terror
A Passion in the Desert
The Napoleon of the People (“The Country Doctor')
1432
GEORGE BANCROFT (by Austin Scott)
1800-1891
The Beginnings of Virginia (History of the United
States')
Men and Government in Early Massachusetts (same)
King Philip's War (same)
The New Netherland (same)
Franklin (same)
Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham (same)
Lexington (same)
Washington (same)
1458
JOHN AND MICHAEL BANIM
1798-1874
The Publican's Dream (The Bit of Writin'? )
Ailleen
Soggarth Aroon
Irish Maiden's Song
1474
THÉODORE DE BANVILLE
1823–1891
Le Café ("The Soul of Paris')
The Mysterious Hosts of the Forests (The Caryatids":
Lang's Translation)
Aux Enfants Perdus: Lang's Translation
Ballade des Pendus: Lang's Translation
1481
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD
1743–1825
Against Inconsistency in Our Expectations
A Dialogue of the Dead
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ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD- Continued :
Life
Praise to God
1475-1552
1496
ALEXANDER BARCLAY
The Courtier's Life (Second Eclogue)
1788–1845
1503
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM
As I Laye A-Thynkynge
The Lay of St. Cuthbert
A Lay of St. Nicholas
1529
SABINE BARING-GOULD
1834-
St. Patrick's Purgatory (Curious Myths of the Middle
Ages)
The Cornish Wreckers (“The Vicar of Morwenstow')
18-
1543
JANE BARLOW
The Widow Joyce's Cloak (“Strangers at Lisconnel')
Walled Out (Bogland Studies)
1754-1812
1557
JOEL BARLOW
A Feast (Hasty Pudding')
1563
WILLIAM BARNES
1800-1886
Blackmwore Maidens
Jessie Lee
May
The Turnstile
Milken Time
To the Water-Crowfoot
Zummer an' Winter
1571
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
1860-
The Courting of T'nowhead's Bell (Auld Licht Idylls')
Jess Left Alone (A Window in Thrums')
After the Sermon (“The Little Minister ')
The Mutual Discovery (same)
Lost Illusions (“Sentimental Tommy')
Sins of Circumstance (same)
1607
FRÉDÉRIC Bastiat
1801-1850
Petition of Manufacturers of Artificial Light
Stulta and Puera
Inapplicable Terms (Economic Sophisms')
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1617
1633
/
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (by Grace King) 1821-1867
Meditation
Death of the Poor
Music
The Broken Bell
The Enemy
Beauty
Death
The Painter of Modern Life (L'Art Romantique')
Modernness
From Little Poems in Prose): Every One His Own Chi-
mera; Humanity: Windows; Drink
From a Journal
LORD BEACONSFIELD (by Isa Carrington Cabell)
1804-1881
A Day at Ems (Vivian Grey')
The Festa in the Alhambra (“The Young Duke')
Squibs from The Young Duke': Charles Annesley; The
Fussy Hostess; Public Speaking; Female Beauty
Lothair in Palestine (“Lothair ')
BEAUMARCHAIS (by Brander Matthews) 1732-1799
Outwitting a Guardian (“The Barber of Seville')
Outwitting a Husband (“The Marriage of Figaro')
Francis BEAUMONT AND John FLETCHER 1584-1616
The Faithful Shepherdess
1 1579-1625
Song
Song
Aspatia's Song
Leandro's Song
True Beauty
Ode to Melancholy
To Ben Jonson, on His Fox'
On the Tombs in Westminster
Arethusa's Declaration (Philaster')
The Story of Bellario (same)
Evadne's Confession (“The Maid's Tragedy')
Death of the Boy Hengo (Bonduca')
From (The Two Noble Kinsmen'
1657
1674
1699
WILLIAM BECKFORD
1759-1844
The Incantation and the Sacrifice (Vathek)
Vathek and Nouronihar in the Halls of Eblis (same)
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HENRY WARD BEECHER (by Lyman Abbott) 1813–1887 1713
Book-Stores and Books (Star Papers ')
Selected Paragraphs
Sermon: Poverty and the Gospel
A New England Sunday (Norwood)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (by E. Irenæus Stevenson)
1770-1827 1749
Letters: To Dr. Wegeler; To the Same; To Bettina
Brentano; To Countess Giulietta Guicciardi; To the
Same: To His Brothers; To the Royal and Imperial
High Court of Appeal; To Baroness von Drossdick;
To Zmeskall; To the Same; To Stephan v. Breuning
Carl Michael BELLMAN (by Olga Flinch) 1740-1795 1763
To Ulla
Cradle-Song for My Son Carl
Amaryllis
Art and Politics
Drink Out Thy Glass
JEREMY BENTHAM
1748-1832 1773
Of the Principle of Utility (An Introduction to the Prin-
ciples of Morals and Legislation')
Reminiscences of Childhood
Letter to George Wilson (1781)
Fragment of a Letter to Lord Lansdowne (1790)
JEAN-PIERRE DE BÉRANGER (by Alcée Fortier) 1780-1857 1783
From The Gipsies?
The People's Reminiscences
The Gad-Fly
The Old Tramp
Draw It Mild
Fifty Years
The King of Yvetot
The Garret
Fortune
My Tomb
From His Preface to His Collected Poems
1801
GEORGE BERKELEY
1685-1753
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in
America
Essay on Tar-Water (Siris')
HECTOR BERLIOZ
1803-1869
The Italian Race as Musicians and Auditors (Autobio-
graphy')
The Famous Snuff-Box Treachery” (same)
1809
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GE
HECTOR BERLIOZ — Continued :
On Gluck (same)
On Bach (same)
Music as an Aristocratic Art (same)
Beginning of a « Grand Passion” (same)
On Theatrical Managers in Relation to Art
1819
Saint BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
1091-1153
Saint Bernard's Hymn
Monastic Luxury (Apology to the Abbot William of St.
Thierry)
From His Sermon on the Death of Gerard
BERNARD OF CLUNY (by William C. Prime)
Twelfth Century
Brief Life Is Here Our Portion
1828
1834
JULIANA BERNERS
Fifteenth Century
The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle
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Philip James Bailey
Joanna Baillie
Henry Martyn Baird
Sir Samuel W. Baker
Arthur James Balfour
Honoré de Balzac
George Bancroft
John and Michael Banim
Théodore de Banville
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
Richard Harris Barham
Jane Barlow
Joel Barlow
James Matthew Barrie
Frédéric Bastiat
Charles Baudelaire
Lord Beaconsfield
Beaumarchais
Francis Beaumont
William Beckford
Henry Ward Beecher
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jeremy Bentham
Jean-Pierre Béranger
George Berkeley
Hector Berlioz
Bernard de Clairvaux
Juliana Berners
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JENS BAGGESEN
(1764-1826)
ENS BAGGESEN was born in the little Danish town Korsör in
1764, and died in exile in the year 1826. Thus he belonged
to two centuries and to two literary periods. He had
reached manhood when the French Revolution broke out; he wit-
nessed Napoleon's rise, his victories, and his fall. He was a full
contemporary of Goethe, who survived him only six years; he saw
English literature glory in men like Byron
and Moore, and lived to hear of Byron's
death in Greece. In his first works he
stood a true representative of the culture
and literature of the eighteenth century,
and was hailed as its exponent by the
Danish poet Herman Wessel; towards the
end of the century he was acknowledged
to be the greatest of living Danish poets.
Then with the new age came the Norwe-
gian, Henrik Steffens, with his enthusiastic
lectures on German romanticism, calling
out the genius of Oehlenschläger, and the
eighteenth century was doomed; Baggesen
JENS BAGGESEN
nevertheless greeted Oehlenschläger with
sincere admiration, and when the Aladdin' of that poet appeared,
Baggesen sent him his rhymed letter From Nureddin-Baggesen to
Aladdin-Oehlenschläger. '
Baggesen was the son of poor people, and strangers helped him
to his scientific education. When his first works were recognized he
became the friend and protégé of the Duke of Augustenborg, who
provided him with the means for an extended journey through the
Continent, during which he met the greatest men of his time. The
Duke of Augustenborg meanwhile secured him several positions,
which could not hold him for any length of time, nor keep him at
home in Denmark. He went abroad a second time to study peda-
gogics, literature, and philosophy, came home again, wandered forth
once more, returned a widower, was for some time director of the
National Theatre in Copenhagen; but found no rest, married again,
and in 1800 went to France to live. Eleven years later he was pro-
fessor in Kiel, returning thence to Copenhagen, where meanwhile his
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JENS BAGGESEN
)
fame had been eclipsed by the genius of Oehlenschläger. Secure in
the knowledge of his powers, Oehlenschläger had carelessly published
two or three dramatic poems not worthy of his pen, and Baggesen
entered on a violent controversy with him in which he stood practi-
cally by himself against the entire reading public, whose sympathies
were with Oehlenschläger. Alone and misunderstood, restless and
unhappy, he left Denmark in 1820, never to return. Six years later
he died, longing to see his country again, but unable to reach it.
His first poetry was published in 1785, a volume of ‘Comic Tales,
which made its mark at once. The following year appeared in quick
succession satires, rhymed epistles, and elegies, which, adding to his
fame, added also to the purposeless ferment and unrest which had
taken possession of him. He considered tragedy his proper field, yet
had allowed himself to appear as humorist and satirist.
When the great historic events of the time took place, and over-
threw all existing conditions, this inner restlessness drove him to
and fro without purpose or will. One day he was enthusiastic over
Voss's idyls, the next he was carried away by Robespierre's wildest
speeches. One year he adopted Kant's Christian name Immanuel in
transport over his works, the next he called the great philosopher
“an empty nut, and moreover hard to crack. ) The romanticism in
Denmark as well as in Gerinany reduced him to a state of utter
confusion; but in spite of this he continued a child of the old order,
which was already doomed. And with all his unrest and discord he
remained nevertheless the champion of “form,” “the poet of the
graces,” as he has been called.
This gift of form has given him his literary importance. He
built a bridge from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century; and
when the new romantic school overstepped its privileges, it was he
who called it to order. The most conspicuous act of his literary life
was the controversy with Oehlenschläger, and the wittiest product of
his pen is the reckless criticism of Oehlenschläger's opera “Ludlam's
Cave. Johann Ludvig Heiberg, the greatest analytical critic of
whom Denmark can boast, remained Baggesen's ardent admirer; and
Heiberg's influential although not always just criticism of Oehlen-
schläger as a poet was no doubt called forth by Baggesen's attack.
Some years later Henrik Hertz made Baggesen his subject. In 1830
appeared Letters from Ghosts,' poetic epistles from Paradise. No-
body knew that Hertz was the author. It was Baggesen's voice from
beyond the grave, Baggesen's criticism upon the literature of 1830.
It was one of the wittiest, and in versification one of the best, books
in Danish literature.
Baggesen's most important prose work is “The Labyrinth,' after-
wards called "The Wanderings of a Poet. It is a poetic description
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1 237
of his journeys, unique in its way, rich in impressions and full of
striking remarks, written in a piquant, graceful, and easy style.
As long as Danish literature remains, Baggesen's name will be
known; though his writings are not now widely read, and are im-
portant chiefly because of their influence on the literary spirit of his
own time. His familiar poem “There was a time when I was very
little,' during the controversy with Oehlenschläger, was seized upon
by Paul Möller, parodied, and changed into “There was a time when
Jens was much bigger. Equally well known is his (Ode to My
Country,' with the familiar lines:
“Alas, in no place is the thorn as tiny,
Alas, in no place blooms as red a rose,
Alas, in no place is there couch as downy
As where we little children found repose. ”
A COSMOPOLITAN
From "The Labyrinth )
F
ORSTER, a little nervous, alert, and piquant man, with gravity
written on his forehead, perspicacity in his eye, and love
around his lips, conquered me completely. I spoke to him
of everything except his journeys; but the traveler showed
himself full of unmistakable humanity. He seemed to me the
cosmopolitan spirit personified.
It was
as if the world were
present when I was alone with him.
We talked about his friend Jacobi, about the late King of
Prussia, about the literature of Germany, and about the present
Pole-high standard of taste. I was much pleased to find in him
the art critic I sought. He said that we must admire everything
which is good and beautiful, whether it originates West, East,
South, or North. The taste of the bee is the true one. Differ-
ence in language and climate, difference of nationality, must not
affect my interest in fair and noble things. The unknown repels
the animal, but should not repel the human creature.
Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern;
Charles Dudley Warner, editor; Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia
Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, associate editors . . .
Publisher: New York, R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill [c1896-97]
Copyright:
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LIBRARY
OF
THE
WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE
Ancient and Modern
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE,
GEORGE H. WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
THIRTY VOLUMES
VOL. III
NEW YORK
R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
PUBLISHERS
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COPYRIGHT 1897
BY R. S. PEALE AND J. A. HILL
All rights reserved
COMPANY
THE WERNER
1
DOR
LINDERS
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THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, Ph. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
President of the UNIVERSITY OF Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , Ph. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, Lit. D. ,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, Ph. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
United States Commissioner of Education,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Literature in the 1. 1
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, Washington, D. C.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. III
LIVED
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1235
JENS BAGGESEN
1764-1826
A Cosmopolitan ('The Labyrinth ')
Philosophy on the Heath (same)
There was a Time when I was Very Little
1 243
Philip JAMES BAILEY
1816–
From (Festus): Life; The Passing-Bell; Thoughts,
Dreams; Chorus of the Saved
1253
JOANNA BAILLIE
1762-1851
Woo'd and Married and A'
It Was on a Morn when we were Thrang
Fy, Let Us A’ to the Wedding
The Weary Pund o' Tow
From De Montfort
To Mrs. Siddons
A Scotch Song
Song, Poverty Parts Good Company'
The Kitten
1272
HENRY MARTYN BAIRD
1832-
The Battle of Ivry (The Huguenots and Henry of Na-
varre)
1277
SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
1821-1893
Hunting in Abyssinia (“The Nile Tributaries of Abys-
sinia')
The Sources of the Nile ('The Albert Nyanza ')
1287
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR
1848–
The Pleasures of Reading (Rectorial Address)
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PAGE
THE BALLAD (by F. B. Gummere)
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
The Hunting of the Cheviot
Johnie Cock
Sir Patrick Spens
The Bonny Earl of Murray
Mary Hamilton
Bonnie George Campbell
Bessie Bell and Mary Gray
1305
The Three Ravens
Lord Randal
Edward
The Twa Brothers
Babylon
Childe Maurice
The Wife of Usher's Well
Sweet William's Ghost
HONORÉ DE BALZAC (by William P. Trent) 1799-1850 1348
The Meeting in the Convent (The Duchess of Langeais')
An Episode Under the Terror
A Passion in the Desert
The Napoleon of the People (“The Country Doctor')
1432
GEORGE BANCROFT (by Austin Scott)
1800-1891
The Beginnings of Virginia (History of the United
States')
Men and Government in Early Massachusetts (same)
King Philip's War (same)
The New Netherland (same)
Franklin (same)
Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham (same)
Lexington (same)
Washington (same)
1458
JOHN AND MICHAEL BANIM
1798-1874
The Publican's Dream (The Bit of Writin'? )
Ailleen
Soggarth Aroon
Irish Maiden's Song
1474
THÉODORE DE BANVILLE
1823–1891
Le Café ("The Soul of Paris')
The Mysterious Hosts of the Forests (The Caryatids":
Lang's Translation)
Aux Enfants Perdus: Lang's Translation
Ballade des Pendus: Lang's Translation
1481
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD
1743–1825
Against Inconsistency in Our Expectations
A Dialogue of the Dead
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LIVED
PAGE
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD- Continued :
Life
Praise to God
1475-1552
1496
ALEXANDER BARCLAY
The Courtier's Life (Second Eclogue)
1788–1845
1503
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM
As I Laye A-Thynkynge
The Lay of St. Cuthbert
A Lay of St. Nicholas
1529
SABINE BARING-GOULD
1834-
St. Patrick's Purgatory (Curious Myths of the Middle
Ages)
The Cornish Wreckers (“The Vicar of Morwenstow')
18-
1543
JANE BARLOW
The Widow Joyce's Cloak (“Strangers at Lisconnel')
Walled Out (Bogland Studies)
1754-1812
1557
JOEL BARLOW
A Feast (Hasty Pudding')
1563
WILLIAM BARNES
1800-1886
Blackmwore Maidens
Jessie Lee
May
The Turnstile
Milken Time
To the Water-Crowfoot
Zummer an' Winter
1571
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
1860-
The Courting of T'nowhead's Bell (Auld Licht Idylls')
Jess Left Alone (A Window in Thrums')
After the Sermon (“The Little Minister ')
The Mutual Discovery (same)
Lost Illusions (“Sentimental Tommy')
Sins of Circumstance (same)
1607
FRÉDÉRIC Bastiat
1801-1850
Petition of Manufacturers of Artificial Light
Stulta and Puera
Inapplicable Terms (Economic Sophisms')
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LIVED
PAGE
1617
1633
/
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (by Grace King) 1821-1867
Meditation
Death of the Poor
Music
The Broken Bell
The Enemy
Beauty
Death
The Painter of Modern Life (L'Art Romantique')
Modernness
From Little Poems in Prose): Every One His Own Chi-
mera; Humanity: Windows; Drink
From a Journal
LORD BEACONSFIELD (by Isa Carrington Cabell)
1804-1881
A Day at Ems (Vivian Grey')
The Festa in the Alhambra (“The Young Duke')
Squibs from The Young Duke': Charles Annesley; The
Fussy Hostess; Public Speaking; Female Beauty
Lothair in Palestine (“Lothair ')
BEAUMARCHAIS (by Brander Matthews) 1732-1799
Outwitting a Guardian (“The Barber of Seville')
Outwitting a Husband (“The Marriage of Figaro')
Francis BEAUMONT AND John FLETCHER 1584-1616
The Faithful Shepherdess
1 1579-1625
Song
Song
Aspatia's Song
Leandro's Song
True Beauty
Ode to Melancholy
To Ben Jonson, on His Fox'
On the Tombs in Westminster
Arethusa's Declaration (Philaster')
The Story of Bellario (same)
Evadne's Confession (“The Maid's Tragedy')
Death of the Boy Hengo (Bonduca')
From (The Two Noble Kinsmen'
1657
1674
1699
WILLIAM BECKFORD
1759-1844
The Incantation and the Sacrifice (Vathek)
Vathek and Nouronihar in the Halls of Eblis (same)
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LIVED
PAGE
HENRY WARD BEECHER (by Lyman Abbott) 1813–1887 1713
Book-Stores and Books (Star Papers ')
Selected Paragraphs
Sermon: Poverty and the Gospel
A New England Sunday (Norwood)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (by E. Irenæus Stevenson)
1770-1827 1749
Letters: To Dr. Wegeler; To the Same; To Bettina
Brentano; To Countess Giulietta Guicciardi; To the
Same: To His Brothers; To the Royal and Imperial
High Court of Appeal; To Baroness von Drossdick;
To Zmeskall; To the Same; To Stephan v. Breuning
Carl Michael BELLMAN (by Olga Flinch) 1740-1795 1763
To Ulla
Cradle-Song for My Son Carl
Amaryllis
Art and Politics
Drink Out Thy Glass
JEREMY BENTHAM
1748-1832 1773
Of the Principle of Utility (An Introduction to the Prin-
ciples of Morals and Legislation')
Reminiscences of Childhood
Letter to George Wilson (1781)
Fragment of a Letter to Lord Lansdowne (1790)
JEAN-PIERRE DE BÉRANGER (by Alcée Fortier) 1780-1857 1783
From The Gipsies?
The People's Reminiscences
The Gad-Fly
The Old Tramp
Draw It Mild
Fifty Years
The King of Yvetot
The Garret
Fortune
My Tomb
From His Preface to His Collected Poems
1801
GEORGE BERKELEY
1685-1753
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in
America
Essay on Tar-Water (Siris')
HECTOR BERLIOZ
1803-1869
The Italian Race as Musicians and Auditors (Autobio-
graphy')
The Famous Snuff-Box Treachery” (same)
1809
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GE
HECTOR BERLIOZ — Continued :
On Gluck (same)
On Bach (same)
Music as an Aristocratic Art (same)
Beginning of a « Grand Passion” (same)
On Theatrical Managers in Relation to Art
1819
Saint BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
1091-1153
Saint Bernard's Hymn
Monastic Luxury (Apology to the Abbot William of St.
Thierry)
From His Sermon on the Death of Gerard
BERNARD OF CLUNY (by William C. Prime)
Twelfth Century
Brief Life Is Here Our Portion
1828
1834
JULIANA BERNERS
Fifteenth Century
The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle
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Joanna Baillie
Henry Martyn Baird
Sir Samuel W. Baker
Arthur James Balfour
Honoré de Balzac
George Bancroft
John and Michael Banim
Théodore de Banville
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
Richard Harris Barham
Jane Barlow
Joel Barlow
James Matthew Barrie
Frédéric Bastiat
Charles Baudelaire
Lord Beaconsfield
Beaumarchais
Francis Beaumont
William Beckford
Henry Ward Beecher
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jeremy Bentham
Jean-Pierre Béranger
George Berkeley
Hector Berlioz
Bernard de Clairvaux
Juliana Berners
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JENS BAGGESEN
(1764-1826)
ENS BAGGESEN was born in the little Danish town Korsör in
1764, and died in exile in the year 1826. Thus he belonged
to two centuries and to two literary periods. He had
reached manhood when the French Revolution broke out; he wit-
nessed Napoleon's rise, his victories, and his fall. He was a full
contemporary of Goethe, who survived him only six years; he saw
English literature glory in men like Byron
and Moore, and lived to hear of Byron's
death in Greece. In his first works he
stood a true representative of the culture
and literature of the eighteenth century,
and was hailed as its exponent by the
Danish poet Herman Wessel; towards the
end of the century he was acknowledged
to be the greatest of living Danish poets.
Then with the new age came the Norwe-
gian, Henrik Steffens, with his enthusiastic
lectures on German romanticism, calling
out the genius of Oehlenschläger, and the
eighteenth century was doomed; Baggesen
JENS BAGGESEN
nevertheless greeted Oehlenschläger with
sincere admiration, and when the Aladdin' of that poet appeared,
Baggesen sent him his rhymed letter From Nureddin-Baggesen to
Aladdin-Oehlenschläger. '
Baggesen was the son of poor people, and strangers helped him
to his scientific education. When his first works were recognized he
became the friend and protégé of the Duke of Augustenborg, who
provided him with the means for an extended journey through the
Continent, during which he met the greatest men of his time. The
Duke of Augustenborg meanwhile secured him several positions,
which could not hold him for any length of time, nor keep him at
home in Denmark. He went abroad a second time to study peda-
gogics, literature, and philosophy, came home again, wandered forth
once more, returned a widower, was for some time director of the
National Theatre in Copenhagen; but found no rest, married again,
and in 1800 went to France to live. Eleven years later he was pro-
fessor in Kiel, returning thence to Copenhagen, where meanwhile his
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)
fame had been eclipsed by the genius of Oehlenschläger. Secure in
the knowledge of his powers, Oehlenschläger had carelessly published
two or three dramatic poems not worthy of his pen, and Baggesen
entered on a violent controversy with him in which he stood practi-
cally by himself against the entire reading public, whose sympathies
were with Oehlenschläger. Alone and misunderstood, restless and
unhappy, he left Denmark in 1820, never to return. Six years later
he died, longing to see his country again, but unable to reach it.
His first poetry was published in 1785, a volume of ‘Comic Tales,
which made its mark at once. The following year appeared in quick
succession satires, rhymed epistles, and elegies, which, adding to his
fame, added also to the purposeless ferment and unrest which had
taken possession of him. He considered tragedy his proper field, yet
had allowed himself to appear as humorist and satirist.
When the great historic events of the time took place, and over-
threw all existing conditions, this inner restlessness drove him to
and fro without purpose or will. One day he was enthusiastic over
Voss's idyls, the next he was carried away by Robespierre's wildest
speeches. One year he adopted Kant's Christian name Immanuel in
transport over his works, the next he called the great philosopher
“an empty nut, and moreover hard to crack. ) The romanticism in
Denmark as well as in Gerinany reduced him to a state of utter
confusion; but in spite of this he continued a child of the old order,
which was already doomed. And with all his unrest and discord he
remained nevertheless the champion of “form,” “the poet of the
graces,” as he has been called.
This gift of form has given him his literary importance. He
built a bridge from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century; and
when the new romantic school overstepped its privileges, it was he
who called it to order. The most conspicuous act of his literary life
was the controversy with Oehlenschläger, and the wittiest product of
his pen is the reckless criticism of Oehlenschläger's opera “Ludlam's
Cave. Johann Ludvig Heiberg, the greatest analytical critic of
whom Denmark can boast, remained Baggesen's ardent admirer; and
Heiberg's influential although not always just criticism of Oehlen-
schläger as a poet was no doubt called forth by Baggesen's attack.
Some years later Henrik Hertz made Baggesen his subject. In 1830
appeared Letters from Ghosts,' poetic epistles from Paradise. No-
body knew that Hertz was the author. It was Baggesen's voice from
beyond the grave, Baggesen's criticism upon the literature of 1830.
It was one of the wittiest, and in versification one of the best, books
in Danish literature.
Baggesen's most important prose work is “The Labyrinth,' after-
wards called "The Wanderings of a Poet. It is a poetic description
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of his journeys, unique in its way, rich in impressions and full of
striking remarks, written in a piquant, graceful, and easy style.
As long as Danish literature remains, Baggesen's name will be
known; though his writings are not now widely read, and are im-
portant chiefly because of their influence on the literary spirit of his
own time. His familiar poem “There was a time when I was very
little,' during the controversy with Oehlenschläger, was seized upon
by Paul Möller, parodied, and changed into “There was a time when
Jens was much bigger. Equally well known is his (Ode to My
Country,' with the familiar lines:
“Alas, in no place is the thorn as tiny,
Alas, in no place blooms as red a rose,
Alas, in no place is there couch as downy
As where we little children found repose. ”
A COSMOPOLITAN
From "The Labyrinth )
F
ORSTER, a little nervous, alert, and piquant man, with gravity
written on his forehead, perspicacity in his eye, and love
around his lips, conquered me completely. I spoke to him
of everything except his journeys; but the traveler showed
himself full of unmistakable humanity. He seemed to me the
cosmopolitan spirit personified.
It was
as if the world were
present when I was alone with him.
We talked about his friend Jacobi, about the late King of
Prussia, about the literature of Germany, and about the present
Pole-high standard of taste. I was much pleased to find in him
the art critic I sought. He said that we must admire everything
which is good and beautiful, whether it originates West, East,
South, or North. The taste of the bee is the true one. Differ-
ence in language and climate, difference of nationality, must not
affect my interest in fair and noble things. The unknown repels
the animal, but should not repel the human creature. Suppose
you say that Voltaire is animal in comparison with Shakespeare
or Klopstock, or that they are animal in comparison with him:
it is a blunder to demand pears of an apple-tree, as it is ridicu-
lous to throw away the apple because it is not a pear.
The
entire world of nature teaches us this æsthetic tolerance, and yet
we have as little acquired it as we have freedom of conscience.
We plant white and red roses in the same bed, but who puts
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the Messiah' and the Henriade' on the same shelf ?
He only
who reads neither the one nor the other.
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CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
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THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
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WILLIAM M. SLOANE, Ph. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
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Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
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WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , Ph. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
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Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, Lit. D. ,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
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Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. III
LIVED
PAGE
1235
JENS BAGGESEN
1764-1826
A Cosmopolitan ('The Labyrinth ')
Philosophy on the Heath (same)
There was a Time when I was Very Little
1 243
Philip JAMES BAILEY
1816–
From (Festus): Life; The Passing-Bell; Thoughts,
Dreams; Chorus of the Saved
1253
JOANNA BAILLIE
1762-1851
Woo'd and Married and A'
It Was on a Morn when we were Thrang
Fy, Let Us A’ to the Wedding
The Weary Pund o' Tow
From De Montfort
To Mrs. Siddons
A Scotch Song
Song, Poverty Parts Good Company'
The Kitten
1272
HENRY MARTYN BAIRD
1832-
The Battle of Ivry (The Huguenots and Henry of Na-
varre)
1277
SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
1821-1893
Hunting in Abyssinia (“The Nile Tributaries of Abys-
sinia')
The Sources of the Nile ('The Albert Nyanza ')
1287
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR
1848–
The Pleasures of Reading (Rectorial Address)
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LIVED
PAGE
THE BALLAD (by F. B. Gummere)
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
The Hunting of the Cheviot
Johnie Cock
Sir Patrick Spens
The Bonny Earl of Murray
Mary Hamilton
Bonnie George Campbell
Bessie Bell and Mary Gray
1305
The Three Ravens
Lord Randal
Edward
The Twa Brothers
Babylon
Childe Maurice
The Wife of Usher's Well
Sweet William's Ghost
HONORÉ DE BALZAC (by William P. Trent) 1799-1850 1348
The Meeting in the Convent (The Duchess of Langeais')
An Episode Under the Terror
A Passion in the Desert
The Napoleon of the People (“The Country Doctor')
1432
GEORGE BANCROFT (by Austin Scott)
1800-1891
The Beginnings of Virginia (History of the United
States')
Men and Government in Early Massachusetts (same)
King Philip's War (same)
The New Netherland (same)
Franklin (same)
Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham (same)
Lexington (same)
Washington (same)
1458
JOHN AND MICHAEL BANIM
1798-1874
The Publican's Dream (The Bit of Writin'? )
Ailleen
Soggarth Aroon
Irish Maiden's Song
1474
THÉODORE DE BANVILLE
1823–1891
Le Café ("The Soul of Paris')
The Mysterious Hosts of the Forests (The Caryatids":
Lang's Translation)
Aux Enfants Perdus: Lang's Translation
Ballade des Pendus: Lang's Translation
1481
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD
1743–1825
Against Inconsistency in Our Expectations
A Dialogue of the Dead
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LIVED
PAGE
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD- Continued :
Life
Praise to God
1475-1552
1496
ALEXANDER BARCLAY
The Courtier's Life (Second Eclogue)
1788–1845
1503
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM
As I Laye A-Thynkynge
The Lay of St. Cuthbert
A Lay of St. Nicholas
1529
SABINE BARING-GOULD
1834-
St. Patrick's Purgatory (Curious Myths of the Middle
Ages)
The Cornish Wreckers (“The Vicar of Morwenstow')
18-
1543
JANE BARLOW
The Widow Joyce's Cloak (“Strangers at Lisconnel')
Walled Out (Bogland Studies)
1754-1812
1557
JOEL BARLOW
A Feast (Hasty Pudding')
1563
WILLIAM BARNES
1800-1886
Blackmwore Maidens
Jessie Lee
May
The Turnstile
Milken Time
To the Water-Crowfoot
Zummer an' Winter
1571
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
1860-
The Courting of T'nowhead's Bell (Auld Licht Idylls')
Jess Left Alone (A Window in Thrums')
After the Sermon (“The Little Minister ')
The Mutual Discovery (same)
Lost Illusions (“Sentimental Tommy')
Sins of Circumstance (same)
1607
FRÉDÉRIC Bastiat
1801-1850
Petition of Manufacturers of Artificial Light
Stulta and Puera
Inapplicable Terms (Economic Sophisms')
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LIVED
PAGE
1617
1633
/
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (by Grace King) 1821-1867
Meditation
Death of the Poor
Music
The Broken Bell
The Enemy
Beauty
Death
The Painter of Modern Life (L'Art Romantique')
Modernness
From Little Poems in Prose): Every One His Own Chi-
mera; Humanity: Windows; Drink
From a Journal
LORD BEACONSFIELD (by Isa Carrington Cabell)
1804-1881
A Day at Ems (Vivian Grey')
The Festa in the Alhambra (“The Young Duke')
Squibs from The Young Duke': Charles Annesley; The
Fussy Hostess; Public Speaking; Female Beauty
Lothair in Palestine (“Lothair ')
BEAUMARCHAIS (by Brander Matthews) 1732-1799
Outwitting a Guardian (“The Barber of Seville')
Outwitting a Husband (“The Marriage of Figaro')
Francis BEAUMONT AND John FLETCHER 1584-1616
The Faithful Shepherdess
1 1579-1625
Song
Song
Aspatia's Song
Leandro's Song
True Beauty
Ode to Melancholy
To Ben Jonson, on His Fox'
On the Tombs in Westminster
Arethusa's Declaration (Philaster')
The Story of Bellario (same)
Evadne's Confession (“The Maid's Tragedy')
Death of the Boy Hengo (Bonduca')
From (The Two Noble Kinsmen'
1657
1674
1699
WILLIAM BECKFORD
1759-1844
The Incantation and the Sacrifice (Vathek)
Vathek and Nouronihar in the Halls of Eblis (same)
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HENRY WARD BEECHER (by Lyman Abbott) 1813–1887 1713
Book-Stores and Books (Star Papers ')
Selected Paragraphs
Sermon: Poverty and the Gospel
A New England Sunday (Norwood)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (by E. Irenæus Stevenson)
1770-1827 1749
Letters: To Dr. Wegeler; To the Same; To Bettina
Brentano; To Countess Giulietta Guicciardi; To the
Same: To His Brothers; To the Royal and Imperial
High Court of Appeal; To Baroness von Drossdick;
To Zmeskall; To the Same; To Stephan v. Breuning
Carl Michael BELLMAN (by Olga Flinch) 1740-1795 1763
To Ulla
Cradle-Song for My Son Carl
Amaryllis
Art and Politics
Drink Out Thy Glass
JEREMY BENTHAM
1748-1832 1773
Of the Principle of Utility (An Introduction to the Prin-
ciples of Morals and Legislation')
Reminiscences of Childhood
Letter to George Wilson (1781)
Fragment of a Letter to Lord Lansdowne (1790)
JEAN-PIERRE DE BÉRANGER (by Alcée Fortier) 1780-1857 1783
From The Gipsies?
The People's Reminiscences
The Gad-Fly
The Old Tramp
Draw It Mild
Fifty Years
The King of Yvetot
The Garret
Fortune
My Tomb
From His Preface to His Collected Poems
1801
GEORGE BERKELEY
1685-1753
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in
America
Essay on Tar-Water (Siris')
HECTOR BERLIOZ
1803-1869
The Italian Race as Musicians and Auditors (Autobio-
graphy')
The Famous Snuff-Box Treachery” (same)
1809
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GE
HECTOR BERLIOZ — Continued :
On Gluck (same)
On Bach (same)
Music as an Aristocratic Art (same)
Beginning of a « Grand Passion” (same)
On Theatrical Managers in Relation to Art
1819
Saint BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
1091-1153
Saint Bernard's Hymn
Monastic Luxury (Apology to the Abbot William of St.
Thierry)
From His Sermon on the Death of Gerard
BERNARD OF CLUNY (by William C. Prime)
Twelfth Century
Brief Life Is Here Our Portion
1828
1834
JULIANA BERNERS
Fifteenth Century
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Joanna Baillie
Henry Martyn Baird
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Arthur James Balfour
Honoré de Balzac
George Bancroft
John and Michael Banim
Théodore de Banville
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
Richard Harris Barham
Jane Barlow
Joel Barlow
James Matthew Barrie
Frédéric Bastiat
Charles Baudelaire
Lord Beaconsfield
Beaumarchais
Francis Beaumont
William Beckford
Henry Ward Beecher
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jeremy Bentham
Jean-Pierre Béranger
George Berkeley
Hector Berlioz
Bernard de Clairvaux
Juliana Berners
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JENS BAGGESEN
(1764-1826)
ENS BAGGESEN was born in the little Danish town Korsör in
1764, and died in exile in the year 1826. Thus he belonged
to two centuries and to two literary periods. He had
reached manhood when the French Revolution broke out; he wit-
nessed Napoleon's rise, his victories, and his fall. He was a full
contemporary of Goethe, who survived him only six years; he saw
English literature glory in men like Byron
and Moore, and lived to hear of Byron's
death in Greece. In his first works he
stood a true representative of the culture
and literature of the eighteenth century,
and was hailed as its exponent by the
Danish poet Herman Wessel; towards the
end of the century he was acknowledged
to be the greatest of living Danish poets.
Then with the new age came the Norwe-
gian, Henrik Steffens, with his enthusiastic
lectures on German romanticism, calling
out the genius of Oehlenschläger, and the
eighteenth century was doomed; Baggesen
JENS BAGGESEN
nevertheless greeted Oehlenschläger with
sincere admiration, and when the Aladdin' of that poet appeared,
Baggesen sent him his rhymed letter From Nureddin-Baggesen to
Aladdin-Oehlenschläger. '
Baggesen was the son of poor people, and strangers helped him
to his scientific education. When his first works were recognized he
became the friend and protégé of the Duke of Augustenborg, who
provided him with the means for an extended journey through the
Continent, during which he met the greatest men of his time. The
Duke of Augustenborg meanwhile secured him several positions,
which could not hold him for any length of time, nor keep him at
home in Denmark. He went abroad a second time to study peda-
gogics, literature, and philosophy, came home again, wandered forth
once more, returned a widower, was for some time director of the
National Theatre in Copenhagen; but found no rest, married again,
and in 1800 went to France to live. Eleven years later he was pro-
fessor in Kiel, returning thence to Copenhagen, where meanwhile his
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JENS BAGGESEN
)
fame had been eclipsed by the genius of Oehlenschläger. Secure in
the knowledge of his powers, Oehlenschläger had carelessly published
two or three dramatic poems not worthy of his pen, and Baggesen
entered on a violent controversy with him in which he stood practi-
cally by himself against the entire reading public, whose sympathies
were with Oehlenschläger. Alone and misunderstood, restless and
unhappy, he left Denmark in 1820, never to return. Six years later
he died, longing to see his country again, but unable to reach it.
His first poetry was published in 1785, a volume of ‘Comic Tales,
which made its mark at once. The following year appeared in quick
succession satires, rhymed epistles, and elegies, which, adding to his
fame, added also to the purposeless ferment and unrest which had
taken possession of him. He considered tragedy his proper field, yet
had allowed himself to appear as humorist and satirist.
When the great historic events of the time took place, and over-
threw all existing conditions, this inner restlessness drove him to
and fro without purpose or will. One day he was enthusiastic over
Voss's idyls, the next he was carried away by Robespierre's wildest
speeches. One year he adopted Kant's Christian name Immanuel in
transport over his works, the next he called the great philosopher
“an empty nut, and moreover hard to crack. ) The romanticism in
Denmark as well as in Gerinany reduced him to a state of utter
confusion; but in spite of this he continued a child of the old order,
which was already doomed. And with all his unrest and discord he
remained nevertheless the champion of “form,” “the poet of the
graces,” as he has been called.
This gift of form has given him his literary importance. He
built a bridge from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century; and
when the new romantic school overstepped its privileges, it was he
who called it to order. The most conspicuous act of his literary life
was the controversy with Oehlenschläger, and the wittiest product of
his pen is the reckless criticism of Oehlenschläger's opera “Ludlam's
Cave. Johann Ludvig Heiberg, the greatest analytical critic of
whom Denmark can boast, remained Baggesen's ardent admirer; and
Heiberg's influential although not always just criticism of Oehlen-
schläger as a poet was no doubt called forth by Baggesen's attack.
Some years later Henrik Hertz made Baggesen his subject. In 1830
appeared Letters from Ghosts,' poetic epistles from Paradise. No-
body knew that Hertz was the author. It was Baggesen's voice from
beyond the grave, Baggesen's criticism upon the literature of 1830.
It was one of the wittiest, and in versification one of the best, books
in Danish literature.
Baggesen's most important prose work is “The Labyrinth,' after-
wards called "The Wanderings of a Poet. It is a poetic description
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1 237
of his journeys, unique in its way, rich in impressions and full of
striking remarks, written in a piquant, graceful, and easy style.
As long as Danish literature remains, Baggesen's name will be
known; though his writings are not now widely read, and are im-
portant chiefly because of their influence on the literary spirit of his
own time. His familiar poem “There was a time when I was very
little,' during the controversy with Oehlenschläger, was seized upon
by Paul Möller, parodied, and changed into “There was a time when
Jens was much bigger. Equally well known is his (Ode to My
Country,' with the familiar lines:
“Alas, in no place is the thorn as tiny,
Alas, in no place blooms as red a rose,
Alas, in no place is there couch as downy
As where we little children found repose. ”
A COSMOPOLITAN
From "The Labyrinth )
F
ORSTER, a little nervous, alert, and piquant man, with gravity
written on his forehead, perspicacity in his eye, and love
around his lips, conquered me completely. I spoke to him
of everything except his journeys; but the traveler showed
himself full of unmistakable humanity. He seemed to me the
cosmopolitan spirit personified.
It was
as if the world were
present when I was alone with him.
We talked about his friend Jacobi, about the late King of
Prussia, about the literature of Germany, and about the present
Pole-high standard of taste. I was much pleased to find in him
the art critic I sought. He said that we must admire everything
which is good and beautiful, whether it originates West, East,
South, or North. The taste of the bee is the true one. Differ-
ence in language and climate, difference of nationality, must not
affect my interest in fair and noble things. The unknown repels
the animal, but should not repel the human creature.
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Ancient and Modern
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
EDITOR
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE, LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE,
GEORGE H. WARNER
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
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VOL. III
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CRAWFORD H. TOY, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Professor of Hebrew, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Mass.
THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, LL. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.
WILLIAM M. SLOANE, Ph. D. , L. H. D. ,
Professor of History and Political Science,
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Princeton, N. J.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, A. M. , LL. B. ,
Professor of Literature, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York City.
JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D. ,
President of the UNIVERSITY OF Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
WILLARD FISKE, A. M. , Ph. D. ,
Late Professor of the Germanic and Scandinavian Languages
and Literatures,
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, N. Y.
EDWARD S. HOLDEN, A. M. , LL. D. ,
Director of the Lick Observatory, and Astronomer,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Berkeley, Cal.
ALCÉE FORTIER, Lit. D. ,
Professor of the Romance Languages,
TULANE UNIVERSITY, New Orleans, La.
WILLIAM P. TRENT, M. A. ,
Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of
English and History,
UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH, Sewanee, Tenn.
PAUL SHOREY, Ph. D. ,
Professor of Greek and Latin Literature,
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago, Ill.
WILLIAM T. HARRIS, LL. D. ,
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BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C.
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Professor of Literature in the 1. 1
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V
TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOL. III
LIVED
PAGE
1235
JENS BAGGESEN
1764-1826
A Cosmopolitan ('The Labyrinth ')
Philosophy on the Heath (same)
There was a Time when I was Very Little
1 243
Philip JAMES BAILEY
1816–
From (Festus): Life; The Passing-Bell; Thoughts,
Dreams; Chorus of the Saved
1253
JOANNA BAILLIE
1762-1851
Woo'd and Married and A'
It Was on a Morn when we were Thrang
Fy, Let Us A’ to the Wedding
The Weary Pund o' Tow
From De Montfort
To Mrs. Siddons
A Scotch Song
Song, Poverty Parts Good Company'
The Kitten
1272
HENRY MARTYN BAIRD
1832-
The Battle of Ivry (The Huguenots and Henry of Na-
varre)
1277
SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER
1821-1893
Hunting in Abyssinia (“The Nile Tributaries of Abys-
sinia')
The Sources of the Nile ('The Albert Nyanza ')
1287
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR
1848–
The Pleasures of Reading (Rectorial Address)
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THE BALLAD (by F. B. Gummere)
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne
The Hunting of the Cheviot
Johnie Cock
Sir Patrick Spens
The Bonny Earl of Murray
Mary Hamilton
Bonnie George Campbell
Bessie Bell and Mary Gray
1305
The Three Ravens
Lord Randal
Edward
The Twa Brothers
Babylon
Childe Maurice
The Wife of Usher's Well
Sweet William's Ghost
HONORÉ DE BALZAC (by William P. Trent) 1799-1850 1348
The Meeting in the Convent (The Duchess of Langeais')
An Episode Under the Terror
A Passion in the Desert
The Napoleon of the People (“The Country Doctor')
1432
GEORGE BANCROFT (by Austin Scott)
1800-1891
The Beginnings of Virginia (History of the United
States')
Men and Government in Early Massachusetts (same)
King Philip's War (same)
The New Netherland (same)
Franklin (same)
Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham (same)
Lexington (same)
Washington (same)
1458
JOHN AND MICHAEL BANIM
1798-1874
The Publican's Dream (The Bit of Writin'? )
Ailleen
Soggarth Aroon
Irish Maiden's Song
1474
THÉODORE DE BANVILLE
1823–1891
Le Café ("The Soul of Paris')
The Mysterious Hosts of the Forests (The Caryatids":
Lang's Translation)
Aux Enfants Perdus: Lang's Translation
Ballade des Pendus: Lang's Translation
1481
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD
1743–1825
Against Inconsistency in Our Expectations
A Dialogue of the Dead
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ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD- Continued :
Life
Praise to God
1475-1552
1496
ALEXANDER BARCLAY
The Courtier's Life (Second Eclogue)
1788–1845
1503
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM
As I Laye A-Thynkynge
The Lay of St. Cuthbert
A Lay of St. Nicholas
1529
SABINE BARING-GOULD
1834-
St. Patrick's Purgatory (Curious Myths of the Middle
Ages)
The Cornish Wreckers (“The Vicar of Morwenstow')
18-
1543
JANE BARLOW
The Widow Joyce's Cloak (“Strangers at Lisconnel')
Walled Out (Bogland Studies)
1754-1812
1557
JOEL BARLOW
A Feast (Hasty Pudding')
1563
WILLIAM BARNES
1800-1886
Blackmwore Maidens
Jessie Lee
May
The Turnstile
Milken Time
To the Water-Crowfoot
Zummer an' Winter
1571
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE
1860-
The Courting of T'nowhead's Bell (Auld Licht Idylls')
Jess Left Alone (A Window in Thrums')
After the Sermon (“The Little Minister ')
The Mutual Discovery (same)
Lost Illusions (“Sentimental Tommy')
Sins of Circumstance (same)
1607
FRÉDÉRIC Bastiat
1801-1850
Petition of Manufacturers of Artificial Light
Stulta and Puera
Inapplicable Terms (Economic Sophisms')
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1617
1633
/
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (by Grace King) 1821-1867
Meditation
Death of the Poor
Music
The Broken Bell
The Enemy
Beauty
Death
The Painter of Modern Life (L'Art Romantique')
Modernness
From Little Poems in Prose): Every One His Own Chi-
mera; Humanity: Windows; Drink
From a Journal
LORD BEACONSFIELD (by Isa Carrington Cabell)
1804-1881
A Day at Ems (Vivian Grey')
The Festa in the Alhambra (“The Young Duke')
Squibs from The Young Duke': Charles Annesley; The
Fussy Hostess; Public Speaking; Female Beauty
Lothair in Palestine (“Lothair ')
BEAUMARCHAIS (by Brander Matthews) 1732-1799
Outwitting a Guardian (“The Barber of Seville')
Outwitting a Husband (“The Marriage of Figaro')
Francis BEAUMONT AND John FLETCHER 1584-1616
The Faithful Shepherdess
1 1579-1625
Song
Song
Aspatia's Song
Leandro's Song
True Beauty
Ode to Melancholy
To Ben Jonson, on His Fox'
On the Tombs in Westminster
Arethusa's Declaration (Philaster')
The Story of Bellario (same)
Evadne's Confession (“The Maid's Tragedy')
Death of the Boy Hengo (Bonduca')
From (The Two Noble Kinsmen'
1657
1674
1699
WILLIAM BECKFORD
1759-1844
The Incantation and the Sacrifice (Vathek)
Vathek and Nouronihar in the Halls of Eblis (same)
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LIVED
PAGE
HENRY WARD BEECHER (by Lyman Abbott) 1813–1887 1713
Book-Stores and Books (Star Papers ')
Selected Paragraphs
Sermon: Poverty and the Gospel
A New England Sunday (Norwood)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (by E. Irenæus Stevenson)
1770-1827 1749
Letters: To Dr. Wegeler; To the Same; To Bettina
Brentano; To Countess Giulietta Guicciardi; To the
Same: To His Brothers; To the Royal and Imperial
High Court of Appeal; To Baroness von Drossdick;
To Zmeskall; To the Same; To Stephan v. Breuning
Carl Michael BELLMAN (by Olga Flinch) 1740-1795 1763
To Ulla
Cradle-Song for My Son Carl
Amaryllis
Art and Politics
Drink Out Thy Glass
JEREMY BENTHAM
1748-1832 1773
Of the Principle of Utility (An Introduction to the Prin-
ciples of Morals and Legislation')
Reminiscences of Childhood
Letter to George Wilson (1781)
Fragment of a Letter to Lord Lansdowne (1790)
JEAN-PIERRE DE BÉRANGER (by Alcée Fortier) 1780-1857 1783
From The Gipsies?
The People's Reminiscences
The Gad-Fly
The Old Tramp
Draw It Mild
Fifty Years
The King of Yvetot
The Garret
Fortune
My Tomb
From His Preface to His Collected Poems
1801
GEORGE BERKELEY
1685-1753
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in
America
Essay on Tar-Water (Siris')
HECTOR BERLIOZ
1803-1869
The Italian Race as Musicians and Auditors (Autobio-
graphy')
The Famous Snuff-Box Treachery” (same)
1809
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LIVED
GE
HECTOR BERLIOZ — Continued :
On Gluck (same)
On Bach (same)
Music as an Aristocratic Art (same)
Beginning of a « Grand Passion” (same)
On Theatrical Managers in Relation to Art
1819
Saint BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX
1091-1153
Saint Bernard's Hymn
Monastic Luxury (Apology to the Abbot William of St.
Thierry)
From His Sermon on the Death of Gerard
BERNARD OF CLUNY (by William C. Prime)
Twelfth Century
Brief Life Is Here Our Portion
1828
1834
JULIANA BERNERS
Fifteenth Century
The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle
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IN VOL. III
Vignette
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Vignette
Vignette
Full page
Full page
Jens Baggesen
Philip James Bailey
Joanna Baillie
Henry Martyn Baird
Sir Samuel W. Baker
Arthur James Balfour
Honoré de Balzac
George Bancroft
John and Michael Banim
Théodore de Banville
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
Richard Harris Barham
Jane Barlow
Joel Barlow
James Matthew Barrie
Frédéric Bastiat
Charles Baudelaire
Lord Beaconsfield
Beaumarchais
Francis Beaumont
William Beckford
Henry Ward Beecher
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jeremy Bentham
Jean-Pierre Béranger
George Berkeley
Hector Berlioz
Bernard de Clairvaux
Juliana Berners
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JENS BAGGESEN
(1764-1826)
ENS BAGGESEN was born in the little Danish town Korsör in
1764, and died in exile in the year 1826. Thus he belonged
to two centuries and to two literary periods. He had
reached manhood when the French Revolution broke out; he wit-
nessed Napoleon's rise, his victories, and his fall. He was a full
contemporary of Goethe, who survived him only six years; he saw
English literature glory in men like Byron
and Moore, and lived to hear of Byron's
death in Greece. In his first works he
stood a true representative of the culture
and literature of the eighteenth century,
and was hailed as its exponent by the
Danish poet Herman Wessel; towards the
end of the century he was acknowledged
to be the greatest of living Danish poets.
Then with the new age came the Norwe-
gian, Henrik Steffens, with his enthusiastic
lectures on German romanticism, calling
out the genius of Oehlenschläger, and the
eighteenth century was doomed; Baggesen
JENS BAGGESEN
nevertheless greeted Oehlenschläger with
sincere admiration, and when the Aladdin' of that poet appeared,
Baggesen sent him his rhymed letter From Nureddin-Baggesen to
Aladdin-Oehlenschläger. '
Baggesen was the son of poor people, and strangers helped him
to his scientific education. When his first works were recognized he
became the friend and protégé of the Duke of Augustenborg, who
provided him with the means for an extended journey through the
Continent, during which he met the greatest men of his time. The
Duke of Augustenborg meanwhile secured him several positions,
which could not hold him for any length of time, nor keep him at
home in Denmark. He went abroad a second time to study peda-
gogics, literature, and philosophy, came home again, wandered forth
once more, returned a widower, was for some time director of the
National Theatre in Copenhagen; but found no rest, married again,
and in 1800 went to France to live. Eleven years later he was pro-
fessor in Kiel, returning thence to Copenhagen, where meanwhile his
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fame had been eclipsed by the genius of Oehlenschläger. Secure in
the knowledge of his powers, Oehlenschläger had carelessly published
two or three dramatic poems not worthy of his pen, and Baggesen
entered on a violent controversy with him in which he stood practi-
cally by himself against the entire reading public, whose sympathies
were with Oehlenschläger. Alone and misunderstood, restless and
unhappy, he left Denmark in 1820, never to return. Six years later
he died, longing to see his country again, but unable to reach it.
His first poetry was published in 1785, a volume of ‘Comic Tales,
which made its mark at once. The following year appeared in quick
succession satires, rhymed epistles, and elegies, which, adding to his
fame, added also to the purposeless ferment and unrest which had
taken possession of him. He considered tragedy his proper field, yet
had allowed himself to appear as humorist and satirist.
When the great historic events of the time took place, and over-
threw all existing conditions, this inner restlessness drove him to
and fro without purpose or will. One day he was enthusiastic over
Voss's idyls, the next he was carried away by Robespierre's wildest
speeches. One year he adopted Kant's Christian name Immanuel in
transport over his works, the next he called the great philosopher
“an empty nut, and moreover hard to crack. ) The romanticism in
Denmark as well as in Gerinany reduced him to a state of utter
confusion; but in spite of this he continued a child of the old order,
which was already doomed. And with all his unrest and discord he
remained nevertheless the champion of “form,” “the poet of the
graces,” as he has been called.
This gift of form has given him his literary importance. He
built a bridge from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century; and
when the new romantic school overstepped its privileges, it was he
who called it to order. The most conspicuous act of his literary life
was the controversy with Oehlenschläger, and the wittiest product of
his pen is the reckless criticism of Oehlenschläger's opera “Ludlam's
Cave. Johann Ludvig Heiberg, the greatest analytical critic of
whom Denmark can boast, remained Baggesen's ardent admirer; and
Heiberg's influential although not always just criticism of Oehlen-
schläger as a poet was no doubt called forth by Baggesen's attack.
Some years later Henrik Hertz made Baggesen his subject. In 1830
appeared Letters from Ghosts,' poetic epistles from Paradise. No-
body knew that Hertz was the author. It was Baggesen's voice from
beyond the grave, Baggesen's criticism upon the literature of 1830.
It was one of the wittiest, and in versification one of the best, books
in Danish literature.
Baggesen's most important prose work is “The Labyrinth,' after-
wards called "The Wanderings of a Poet. It is a poetic description
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of his journeys, unique in its way, rich in impressions and full of
striking remarks, written in a piquant, graceful, and easy style.
As long as Danish literature remains, Baggesen's name will be
known; though his writings are not now widely read, and are im-
portant chiefly because of their influence on the literary spirit of his
own time. His familiar poem “There was a time when I was very
little,' during the controversy with Oehlenschläger, was seized upon
by Paul Möller, parodied, and changed into “There was a time when
Jens was much bigger. Equally well known is his (Ode to My
Country,' with the familiar lines:
“Alas, in no place is the thorn as tiny,
Alas, in no place blooms as red a rose,
Alas, in no place is there couch as downy
As where we little children found repose. ”
A COSMOPOLITAN
From "The Labyrinth )
F
ORSTER, a little nervous, alert, and piquant man, with gravity
written on his forehead, perspicacity in his eye, and love
around his lips, conquered me completely. I spoke to him
of everything except his journeys; but the traveler showed
himself full of unmistakable humanity. He seemed to me the
cosmopolitan spirit personified.
It was
as if the world were
present when I was alone with him.
We talked about his friend Jacobi, about the late King of
Prussia, about the literature of Germany, and about the present
Pole-high standard of taste. I was much pleased to find in him
the art critic I sought. He said that we must admire everything
which is good and beautiful, whether it originates West, East,
South, or North. The taste of the bee is the true one. Differ-
ence in language and climate, difference of nationality, must not
affect my interest in fair and noble things. The unknown repels
the animal, but should not repel the human creature. Suppose
you say that Voltaire is animal in comparison with Shakespeare
or Klopstock, or that they are animal in comparison with him:
it is a blunder to demand pears of an apple-tree, as it is ridicu-
lous to throw away the apple because it is not a pear.
The
entire world of nature teaches us this æsthetic tolerance, and yet
we have as little acquired it as we have freedom of conscience.
We plant white and red roses in the same bed, but who puts
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the Messiah' and the Henriade' on the same shelf ?
He only
who reads neither the one nor the other.
