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The Essential Poems
The Essential Poems – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Endowed with an intellect of the first order, and an imagination at once delicate and splendid, Coleidge, from a weakness of moral constitution and his lamentable habit, fell far short of the performance which he had planned, and which included various epic poems, and a complete system of […]
Biographia Literaria
Biographia Literaria – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Coleridge, with his superior philosophical training and profundity of thought, became one of England’s greatest critics, despite his digressiveness and verbosity. The Biographia Literaria (1817), a collection of his literary life and opininions, is both autobiographical and critical. Intended as a mere preface to a collected volume of his […]
Lyrical Ballads
Lyrical Ballads – Samuel Taylor Coleridge / William Wordsworth The Ballad as a humble literary type had a certain vogue towards the end of the eighteenth century. It covered the crudest realism as well as the most fantastical romance, and varied in style and treatment as widely as in subject-matter and level of culture. But […]
Aids to Reflection
Aids to Reflection – Samuel Taylor Coleridge In 1825 Coleridge published his Aids to Reflection, a commentary in the form of aphorisms and selected passages from the writings of Archbishop Leighton. The Aids, which may be regarded as an eirenicon between faith and reason, and at one time served as a kind of manual of […]
The Book Of Revelation
The Book Of Revelation – James Hastings Here is a gold mine for the preacher, the teacher and the father and mother in the home who have it in mind to inculcate sound teaching, based upon the Word of God, so that the boys and girls of the congregations, Sunday-Schools and households may be thoroughly […]
From Existence To Life: The Science Of Self-Consciousness
From Existence To Life: The Science Of Self-Consciousness – James Porter Mills There has been a growing feeling in my mind that „Health“ is too small a title with which to introduce a book that sets forth the noblest science that can possibly be formulated. Although health is one of the most desirable conditions in […]
A Tour on the Prairies
A Tour on the Prairies – Washington Irving The productions of Washington Irving are deservedly held in high estimation, not so much, perhaps, for their intrinsic merits as literary compositions, although in this respect they hold no mean position, as for the inimitable tracings of adventurous life which they display through all their gradations and […]
The Life And Voyages Of Christopher Columbus
The Life And Voyages Of Christopher Columbus – Washington Irving Irving’s extensive work on Christopher Columbus is one of the most famous biographies in American history. The name of Washington Irving, prefixed to any work, is in itself a sufficient earnest of liberal sentiment and graceful composition. With generous principles and pure intellectual tastes, he […]
Dhammapada
Dhammapada – Friedrich Max Müller The Buddhist scripture called ‘The Dhammapada’ is traditionally ascribed to Buddha himself. It is an essential part of the Theravada canon. Format: Paperback. Dhammapada. ISBN: 9783849673383. Available at amazon.com and other venues. History of the Dhammapda (from wikipedia.com) According to tradition, the Dhammapada’s verses were spoken by the Buddha on various […]
The Sacred Writings of Saint Hippolytus
The Sacred Writings of Saint Hippolytus – Saint Hippolytus This volume contains his most important polemic against heretics, the „Philosophumena“, the original title of which is ‘A Refutation of All Heresies’. The first book had long been known; books IV to X, which had been discovered a short time previously, were published in 1851. But […]