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Eighth Reader
Ag a mem'non
A lon'zo
A mē'li a
An a tō'li a
An'to ny
A pol'lo
Ar'gīve
Ar'thur
Assisi (äs sē zē)
As sy̆r'i a
Bar'ba ra
Ba vā'ri a
Ber'lin
Bevagno (ba vän'yo)
Bœtia (be ō'shĭ a)
Bo'na parte
Bozzaris (bo zăr'is)
Brit'ta ny
Bru'tus
Bun'yan
Bur'gun dy
Bysshe (bĭsh)
Ca'diz
Cal e do'ni a
Ca thay'
Cau'dle
Charn'wood
Chat ta hoo'chee
Chis̝'wick
Col i sē'um
Cop'per field
Cōv'er ley
Crēa'kle
Cris'sa
Dā'na
Dăn'ube
Dăv'en port
Delft
Domitian (do mĭsh'i an)
Eb en ē'zer
Española (ĕs pan yō'la)
Eu'taw
Fer nan'do
Fĕz'zĭ wig
Fran'cis
Gal i lē'o
Get'tys burg
Gib'son
Guä nä hă'nï
Hab'er sham
Hā'man
Häm'elin
Har'le quin
Hĕl'las
Hel'les pont
Hu'bert
Ja māi'ca
Je mī'ma
John'son
Juana (hwä'na)
Knick'erbock er
La niēr'
Lannes (län)
Leg'horn
Locks'ley
Lor raine'
Mag ne'si a
Măr'i on
Mas'sa soit
Mĭcih'ael mas
Mon'mouth
Mont calm'
Mon te bel'lo
Mont göm'er y
Na pō'le on
Need'wood
Nich'o las
Nin'e veh
Or'e gon
O res'tēs
Pal'las
Phœ'bus
Pinzon (pēn thōn')
Pla tæ'a
Po to'mac
Pro vence' (-văns)
Răph'a el
Răt'is bon
Rieti (rē ĕ'tē)
Rog'er
Rouen (rōō än')
Sa'lem
San'chez
San Sal va dor'
San tee'
Sar a to'ga
Sed'ley
Shel'ley
Spoun'cer
Tō'bit
Tō'phet
Tul'lĭ ver
Tȳre
Um'bră a
Văl'en tīne
Wake' field
Ys̝'a bel
LIST OF AUTHORS
(Place of birth in parentheses. Title of one noted book in italics. Title of most famous poem in quotation marks.)
Browning, Robert. English poet. The Ring and the Book. (Born near London.) Lived in Italy. 1812-1889.
Bryant, William Cullen. American poet and journalist. "Thanatopsis." (Massachusetts.) New York. 1794-1878.
Buckley, Arabella B. (Mrs. Fisher). English writer on popular science. (Brighton, England.) 1840 – .
Bunyan, John. English preacher and writer. Pilgrim's Progress. (Bedford.) London. 1628-1688.
Burns, Robert. Scottish poet. "Tam O'Shanter." (Alloway.) Dumfries. 1759-1796.
Campbell, Thomas. Scottish poet. "Hohenlinden." (Glasgow.) 1777-1844.
Canton, William. English journalist and writer. 1845 – .
Carnegie (kär nĕg'ĭ), Andrew. American manufacturer and philanthropist. (Scotland.) New York. 1837 – .
Cherry, Andrew. Irish poet and dramatist. All for Fame. (Ireland.) 1762-1812.
Collins, William. English poet. (Chichester.) 1721-1759.
Columbus, Christopher. The discoverer of America. (Genoa, Italy.) Spain. 1446(?) -1506.
Cook, Eliza. English poet. "The Old Arm-Chair." 1818-1889.
Dickens, Charles. English novelist. David Copperfield. (Portsmouth.) London. 1812-1870.
Domett (dŏm'et), Alfred. English poet and statesman. "Christmas Hymn." 1811-1887.
Dumas (dö mä'), Alexandre. French novelist and dramatist. The Count of Monte Cristo. 1802-1870.
Eliot, George (Mrs. Mary Ann Evans Cross). English novelist. The Mill on the Floss. 1819-1880.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. American philosopher and poet. Essays. (Boston.) 1803-1882.
Everett, Edward. American statesman and orator. Orations and Speeches. (Massachusetts.) 1794-1865.
Fields, James T. American publisher and author. (New Hampshire.) Massachusetts. 1817-1881.
Giberne, Agnes. English writer on scientific subjects.
Goldsmith, Oliver. English poet and novelist. Vicar of Wakefield. (Ireland.) 1728-1774.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene. American poet. "Marco Bozzaris." (Connecticut.) 1790-1867.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. American novelist. The Wonder Book. (Massachusetts.) 1804-1864.
Henry, Patrick. American patriot. (Virginia.) 1736-1799.
Herrick, Robert. English poet. 1591-1674.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. American author. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. (Massachusetts.) 1809-1894.
Hugo, Victor. French novelist and poet. 1802-1885.
Hunt, Leigh (James Henry Leigh Hunt). English essayist and poet. "Abou ben Adhem." 1784-1859.
Irving, Washington. American prose writer. The Sketch Book. (New York.) 1783-1859.
Jerrold, Douglas William. English humorist. Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. (London.) 1803-1857.
Jonson, Ben. English dramatist. 1573-1637.
Kipling, Rudyard. English writer. The Jungle Book. (Bombay, India.) England. 1865 – .
Lamb, Charles. English essayist. (London.) 1775-1834.
Lanier, Sidney. American musician and author. Poems. (Georgia.) Maryland. 1842-1881.
Lee, Henry. American general, father of Robert E. Lee. (Virginia.) 1756-1818.
Lincoln, Abraham. Sixteenth president of the United States. (Kentucky.) Illinois. 1809-1865.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. American poet. Poems. (Maine.) Massachusetts. 1807-1882.
Lowell, James Russell. American poet and essayist. (Massachusetts.) 1819-1891.
Macleod, Fiona (True name William Sharp). Scottish poet and story-writer. 1856-1905.
Mitchell, Donald G. American essayist. Reveries of a Bachelor. (Connecticut.) 1822-1908.
Parker, Theodore. American clergyman and author. (Massachusetts.) 1810-1860.
Poe, Edgar Allan. American poet and story-writer. "The Raven." (Massachusetts.) Virginia. 1809-1849.
Pope, Alexander. English poet. (London.) 1688-1744.
Proctor, Richard A. English astronomer. 1837-1888.
Riley, James Whitcomb. American poet. (Indiana.) 1852 – .
Rogers, Samuel. English poet. (London.) 1763-1855.
Ryan, Abram J. American clergyman and poet. (Virginia.) Georgia; Kentucky. 1839-1886.
Scott, Sir Walter. Scottish poet and novelist. Ivanhoe. (Edinburgh.) 1771-1832.
Shakespeare, William. The greatest of English dramatists. (Stratford-on-Avon.) 1564-1616.
Sharp, William. See Macleod, Fiona.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (bĭsh). English poet. Poems. 1792-1822.
Simms, William Gilmore. American novelist and poet. (South Carolina.) 1806-1870.
Sophocles (sŏf'o klēz). Greek tragic poet. 495-406 B.C.
Sylvester, Joshua. English poet. 1563-1618.
Tennyson, Alfred. English poet. In Memoriam. (Lincolnshire.) 1809-1892.
Thackeray, William Makepeace. English novelist and critic. (Calcutta, India.) London. 1811-1863.
Timrod, Henry. American poet. (South Carolina.) 1829-1867.
Whitman, Walt. American poet. Leaves of Grass. (New York.) Washington, D.C.; New Jersey. 1819-1892.
Whittier, John Greenleaf. American poet. Poems. (Massachusetts.) 1807-1892.
Winslow, Edward. Governor of Plymouth colony. (Worcestershire, Eng.) Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1595-1655.
Wotton, Sir Henry. English poet. 1568-1639.
1
From "The Mill on the Floss," by George Eliot.
2
From "David Copperfield," by Charles Dickens.
3
From "Vanity Fair," by William Makepeace Thackeray.
4
"Madam, I have come to tell you good-by."
5
By Robert Browning.
6
From "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus," by Washington Irving.
7
By Leigh Hunt, an English essayist and poet (1784-1859).
8
By William Canton, an English journalist and poet (1845- ).
9
By Henry W. Longfellow.
10
By John Burroughs, an American writer on nature (1837- ).
11
From "The Fairy Land of Nature," by Arabella B. Buckley.
12
By Abram J. Ryan, an American clergyman and poet.
13
By Sidney Lanier, an American musician and poet (1842-1881). From the Poems of Sidney Lanier, published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
14
By Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish-American manufacturer and philanthropist (1837- ).
15
By Victor Hugo, a celebrated French writer (1802-1885).
16
By Sir Walter Scott, a Scottish novelist and poet (1771-1832).
17
By Thomas Campbell, a Scottish poet (1777-1844).
18
By William Collins, an English poet (1721-1759).
19
From Diedrich Knickerbocker's, "History of New York," by Washington Irving.
20
From "Bound Together," by Donald G. Mitchell, published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
21
By Robert Herrick, an English poet (1591-1674).
22
From "The Vicar of Wakefield," by Oliver Goldsmith, a celebrated English author (1728-1774).
23
From "The Pilgrim's Progress," by John Bunyan, a famous English preacher and writer (1628-1688).
24
From "Ivanhoe," by Sir Walter Scott.
25
By Alfred Domett, (dŏm´et), an English writer (1811-1887).
26
From "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens.
27
By Eliza Cook, an English poet (1818-1889).
28
By Charles Lamb, an English essayist and humorist (1775-1834).
29
By Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American writer of romances and short stories (1804-1864).
30
By Walt Whitman, an American poet (1819-1892).
31
By Abraham Lincoln, at the dedication of the National Cemetery, 1863.
32
By Henry Timrod, an American poet (1829-1867).
33
Translated from the "Electra" of Sophocles, written about 450 years before Christ. The narrative is supposed to have been related by the friend and attendant of the hero, Orestes.
34
From "Outre Mer," by Henry W. Longfellow.
35
From "The Autocrat or the Breakfast Table," by Oliver Wendell Holmes, a noted American author and physician (1809 – 1894).
36
Translated from Alexandre Dumas, a noted French novelist (1802-1870).
37
By James T. Fields, an American publisher and author (1817-1881).
38
By Douglas William Jerrold, an English humorous writer (1803-1857).
39
From "Abraham Davenport," by John Greenleaf Whittier.
40
From the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," by Sir Walter Scott.
41
By Andrew Cherry, an Irish poet (1762-1812).
42
By Robert Burns, a famous Scottish poet (1759-1796).
43
By James Russell Lowell.
44
By Oliver Goldsmith.
45
By Agnes Giberne, an English writer on scientific subjects.
46
By Richard A. Proctor, a noted English astronomer (1837-1888).
47
By Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet and philosopher (1803-1882).
48
By John Burroughs.
49
From "Cymbeline," by William Shakespeare.
50
Before the Virginia Convention, March 25, 1775.
51
By William Gilmore Simms, an American author (1806-1870).
52
By Henry Lee of Virginia. Extract from an oration delivered in the House of Representatives, 1799.
53
By Edward Everett, an American statesman and orator (1794-1865).
54
By Theodore Parker, an eminent American clergyman and author (1810-1860).
55
From the Gospel of Matthew.
56
By Ben Jonson (1573-1637).
57
By Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618).
58
By Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639).
59
By Alexander Pope (1688-1744).
60
By Samuel Rogers (1763-1855).
61
A Gaelic legend, by Fiona Macleod.
62
Pronounced Arth-Ur. In the ancient British language, Arth means Bear, and Urthyr, great, wondrous.
63
From "Julius Cæsar" by William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
64
From "Rhymes of Childhood," by James Whitcomb Riley, copyright, 1890. Used by special permission of the publishers, The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
65
By William Shakespeare.
66
Author unknown.
67
By Alfred Tennyson.
68
By Rudyard Kipling.
