Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History
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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 of 8, Edited by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN
CONTENTS OF VOLUME VII.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ARTISTS AND AUTHORS
HOMER By William Ewart Gladstone (ABOUT 1000 B.C.)
PLATO Extracts from "Plato," by George Grote, F.R.S. (427-347 B.C.)
VIRGIL (70-19 B.C.)
HORACE By J. W. Mackail (65-8 B.C.)
DANTE By Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S. (1265-1321)
PETRARCH By Alice King (1304-1374)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER By Alice King (1328-1400)
TORQUATO TASSO (1544-1595)
CERVANTES By Joseph Forster (1547-1616)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE[1] By Senator John J. Ingalls (1564-1616)
MOLIÈRE Extracts from "Molière," by Sir Walter Scott (1622-1673)
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)
JOHN BUNYAN By John Greenleaf Whittier (1628-1688)
DANIEL DEFOE[2] By Clark Russell (1661-1731)
DEAN SWIFT By Samuel Archer (1667-1745)
ALEXANDER POPE[3] By Austin Dorson (1688-1744)
VOLTAIRE[4] By M. C. Lockwood, D.D. (1694-1778)
SAMUEL JOHNSON[5] By Lord Macaulay (1709-1784)
THOMAS CHATTERTON[7] By Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston (1752-1770)
ROBERT BURNS[8] By Will Carleton (1759-1796)
SCHILLER[9] By B. L. Farjeon (1759-1805)
GOETHE[10] By Rev. Edward Everett Hale (1749-1832)
SIR WALTER SCOTT By W. C. Taylor, LL.D. (1771-1832)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)
WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER[12] By President Charles F. Thwing (1789-1851)
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT[14] By Richard Henry Stoddard (1794-1878)
THOMAS CARLYLE By W. Wallace (1795-1881)
VICTOR HUGO By Margaret O. W. Oliphant (1802-1885)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON By Moncure D. Conway (1803-1882)
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW[15] By Hezekiah Butterworth (1807-1882)
ALFRED TENNYSON[16] By Clarence Cook (1809-1892)
CHARLES DICKENS By Walter Besant (1812-1870)
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES By Frances H. Underwood (1809-1894)
HOMER By William Ewart Gladstone (ABOUT 1000 B.C.)
PLATO Extracts from "Plato," by George Grote, F.R.S. (427-347 B.C.)
VIRGIL (70-19 B.C.)
HORACE By J. W. Mackail (65-8 B.C.)
DANTE By Archdeacon Farrar, D.D., F.R.S. (1265-1321)
PETRARCH By Alice King (1304-1374)
GEOFFREY CHAUCER By Alice King (1328-1400)
TORQUATO TASSO (1544-1595)
CERVANTES By Joseph Forster (1547-1616)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE[1] By Senator John J. Ingalls (1564-1616)
MOLIÈRE Extracts from "Molière," by Sir Walter Scott (1622-1673)
JOHN MILTON (1608-1674)
JOHN BUNYAN By John Greenleaf Whittier (1628-1688)
DANIEL DEFOE[2] By Clark Russell (1661-1731)
DEAN SWIFT By Samuel Archer (1667-1745)
ALEXANDER POPE[3] By Austin Dorson (1688-1744)
VOLTAIRE[4] By M. C. Lockwood, D.D. (1694-1778)
SAMUEL JOHNSON[5] By Lord Macaulay (1709-1784)
THOMAS CHATTERTON[7] By Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnston (1752-1770)
ROBERT BURNS[8] By Will Carleton (1759-1796)
SCHILLER[9] By B. L. Farjeon (1759-1805)
GOETHE[10] By Rev. Edward Everett Hale (1749-1832)
SIR WALTER SCOTT By W. C. Taylor, LL.D. (1771-1832)
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)
WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER[12] By President Charles F. Thwing (1789-1851)
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT[14] By Richard Henry Stoddard (1794-1878)
THOMAS CARLYLE By W. Wallace (1795-1881)
VICTOR HUGO By Margaret O. W. Oliphant (1802-1885)
RALPH WALDO EMERSON By Moncure D. Conway (1803-1882)
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW[15] By Hezekiah Butterworth (1807-1882)
ALFRED TENNYSON[16] By Clarence Cook (1809-1892)
CHARLES DICKENS By Walter Besant (1812-1870)
ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES By Frances H. Underwood (1809-1894)
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