A Book of English Prose
Arranged for Secondary and High Schools

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
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