THE

AMERICAN LIBRARY

OF

ART

LITERATURE AND SONG.

CHOICE SELECTIONS

FROM THE

ARTISTS, AUTHORS AND ORATORS

OF

ALL AGES.

BY

HENRY COPPÉE, LL D.,ed

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY.

VOL. IV.

PHILADELPHIA:

CARSON, STEWART & CO.
1886.

1

Anger, and its Remedies (From the Latin of Lucius Annæus Seneca). Trans. Thomas Lodge

An Inch is as Good as a Mile

Athanasia

.

John Milton

28

Trans. Rev. J. Stevenson, D. D.

182

John Tobin.

266

Thomas Pringle

479

Marguerite St. Leon Loud (Miss Barstow) 428

Trans. Thomas Percy, D. D.

107

Martin F. Tupper

228

507

60

Away from Home

Baggage-Wagon, The .

Ballads the First History (From "History of Civilization in England") Henry Thomas Buckle

Battle of Marathon, The (From the Greek of Herodotus)

Death of Meshchersky, The (Russian of Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin) Trans. John Bowring

Declaration, The .

Nathaniel P. Willis

159

334

Lament of Megara, the Wife of Hercules (From the Greek of Moschus) Trans. M. J. Chapman

Elizabeth Bogart
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

427

436

45

344

120

37

John Keegan.

238

Anonymous

54

James Thomson

468

Percy Bysshe Shelley

44

Anon

444

Joseph Addison .

158