A Book of English Prose

Table of Contents

• Prefatory note
• 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 and 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
• Arrival at Osbaldistone Hall Sir Walter Scott
• A visit to Coleridge Charles Lamb
• Diogenes and Plato W. S. Landor
• An invitation Jane Austen
• Coleridge as preacher William Hazlitt
• A dream Thomas de Quincey
• The use of poetry John Keats
• The flight to Varennes Thomas Carlyle
• The trial of the seven bishops Lord Macauley
• The university of Athens J. H. Newman
• The house of the seven gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Denis Duval's first journey to London W. M. Thackeray
• Storm Charles Dickens
• Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester Charlotte Brontë
• A hut in the woods H. D. Thoreau
• A miser George Eliot
• Ships John Ruskin
• The child in the house Walter Pater
• Driving R. L. Stevenson
• Notes.
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