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GREAT AUTHORS

OF

ALL AGES.

BEING SELECTIONS FROM THE PROSE WORKS OF EMINENT
WRITERS FROM THE TIME OF PERICLES TO

THE PRESENT DAY.

WITH INDEXES.

By S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE.

AUTHOR OF "A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND BRITISH AND
AMERICAN AUTHORS," "POETICAL QUOTATIONS FROM CHAUCER TO TENNYSON,"
"PROSE QUOTATIONS FROM SOCRATES TO MACAULAY," ETC.

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ROBERT LENOX KENNEDY,

OF NEW YORK,

AS A TOKEN OF PROFOUND RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER AS A CHRISTIAN, A PHILANTHROPIST, AND A SCHOLAR,

I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME.

S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE.

NEW YORK, October 11, 1879.

PREFACE.

THIS volume is the fourth of my works constituting a Course of English Literature, viz. :

I. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century, containing over Forty-six Thousand [46,499] Articles (Authors); with Forty Indexes of Subjects. Royal 8vo, 3 vols., pp. 3139. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1858-70-71.

II. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson, with Copious Indexes. Authors, 550; Subjects, 435; Quotations, 13,600. 8vo, pp. xiv. 788. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1873.

III. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay, with Indexes. Authors, 544; Subjects, 571; Quotations, 8810. 8vo. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1876.

IV. Great Authors of all Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present Day. With Indexes. 8vo. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880.

It is difficult for an author to say anything of his works which does not savour of ostentation, or, at least, of egotism; and therefore I prefer to say nothing.

NEW YORK, October 23, 1879.

S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE.

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