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Title: A Book of English Prose

Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
Author: Percy Lubbock
Release Date: November 14, 2006 [EBook #19811]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE ***

Produced by Al Haines

A Book of English Prose

Part II
_Arranged for Secondary and High Schools_
BY

PERCY LUBBOCK, M.A.

KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge:
at the University Press
1913

Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

PREFATORY NOTE

The Editor desires to record his thanks to Messrs
Macmillan & Co., Ltd., Messrs Chatto & Windus
and Messrs Longmans, Green & Co., for their respective
permission to include in this volume passages from
Walter Pater's _Miscellaneous Studies_, from R. L. Stevenson's
_Random Memories_ and from Newman's _Historical
Sketches_.

P. L.

October 1913

CONTENTS

PAGE

Death of Sir Gawaine. . . . . . . . . . . . . _Sir Thomas Malory_

The Queen's Speech to her last

Parliament. . . . . . . . . . . . _Elizabeth, Queen of England_

Death of Cleopatra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Sir Thomas North_

The Vanity of Greatness. . . . . . . . . . . _Sir Walter Ralegh_

The Law of Nations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Richard Hooker_

Of Studies.. .................. _Francis Bacon_

Meditation on Death. . . . . . . . . . . . . _William Drummond_

Primitive Life

. .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . ._Thomas Hobbes_

Character of a Plodding Student. . . . . . . . . . _John Earle_

Charity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Sir Thomas Browne_

The Danger of interfering with the Liberty

of the Press

. .. . .. . .. . .. . .. . .. _John Milton_

Death of Falkland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Earl of Clarendon_

The End of the Pilgrimage. . . . . . . . . . . . . _John Bunyan_

Poetry and Music

. ............ _Sir William Temple_

A Day in the Country. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Samuel Pepys_

Captain Singleton in China. . .. . .. . .. . . _Daniel Defoe_

The Art of Conversation. . . . . . . . . . . . _Jonathan Swift_

The Royal Exchange

. . .. . .. . .. . .. . _Joseph Addison_

Sir Roger de Coverley's Ancestors. . . . . . . _Richard Steele_

Partridge at the Play. . . . . . . . . . . . . _Henry Fielding_

A Journey in a Stage-coach. . . . . . . . . . . _Samuel Johnson_

Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim.. ........ _Laurence Sterne_

The Funeral of George II. . . . . . . . . . . . _Horace Walpole_

The Credulity of the English.. ........ _Oliver Goldsmith_

Decay of the Principles of Liberty.. ....... _Edmund Burke_

The Candidate for Parliament.. ......... _William Cowper_

Youth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Edward Gibbon_

First Sight of Dr Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . _James Boswell_

94 Arrival at Osbaldistone Hall.. ........ _Sir Walter Scott_ 100 A Visit to Coleridge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

_Charles Lamb_ 107

Diogenes and Plato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

_W. S. Landor_ 109 An Invitation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Jane Austen_ 113 Coleridge as Preacher. . . . . . . . . . . . . _William Hazlitt_ 118 A Dream. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Thomas de Quincey_ 120 The Use of Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _John Keats_ 122 The Flight to Varennes.. ............ _Thomas Carlyle_ 124 The Trial of the Seven Bishops. . . . . . . . . . _Lord Macaulay_ 130 The University of Athens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . _J. H. Newman_ 135 The House of the Seven Gables. . . . . . . _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 140 Denis Duval's first journey to London. . . . . _W. M. Thackeray_ 144

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