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Title

Standard English prose; Bacon to Stevenson, selected and edited by Henry S. Pancoast.

Author

Pancoast, Henry Spackman, 1858-1928

Publication

New York, H.Holt [c1902]

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Description

ix, 676 p. 1 illus. (map)

Subject

English prose literature

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• committed to retain

Contents

• Francis Bacon: Of death. Of adversity. Of wisdom for a man#x19;s self. Of riches. Of studies -- Ben Jonson: Timber, or discoveries -- Izaak Walton: Hawking, hunting, and fishing -- Thomas Browne: Death and immortality -- Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon: Of peace -- Thomas Fuller: The good schoolmaster. Of self -- praising. Of books -- John Milton: Tractate on education. Letter to Hartlib. Areopagitica -- Jeremy Taylor: Of contentedness in all estates and accidents. Consideration of the vanity and shortness of man#x19;s life. Anger a hinderance to prayer -- Abraham Cowley: Of myself -- John Bunyan: The fight with Apollyon -- William Temple: Of health and long life -- John Dryden: French and English tragic writers. Shakespeare (from Preface to Troilus and Cressida). Postscript to the reader (from Dedication of the Aeneas) -- Daniel Defoe: The apparition of Mrs. Veal -- Jonathan Swift: Meditation upon a broomstick. Abolishing of Christianity in England. Predictions for the year 1708. The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff#x19;s predictions -- Daniel Defoe: The apparition of Mrs. Veal -- Jonathan Swift: Meditation upon a broomstick. Abolishing of Christianity in England. Predictions for the year 1708. The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff#x19;s predictions -- Joseph Addison: Ned Softly, the poet. The object of the Spectator. Thoughts in Westminster Abbey. The fine lady#x19;s journal -- Joseph Addison: Ned Softly, the poet. The object of the Spectator. Thoughts in Westminster Abbey. The fine lady#x19;s journal.
• Richard Steele: On true distinction. On the funeral of Betterton. Recollections. On testimonials -- Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke: Reflections upon exile (abridged) -- Samuel Johnson: The lady#x19;s misery in a summer retirement. Collins. Letter to Lord Chesterfield. The character of Pope -- Oliver Goldsmith: A visit to Westminster Abbey. The man in black. Beau Tibbs -- Edmund Burke: Warren Hastings (from Speech in opening the impeachment, February 19, 1788). Reflections on the revolution in France. A letter to a noble lord -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The wanderings of Cain. Christmas out of doors. Characteristics of Shakespeare#x19;s dramas -- Robert Southey: The battle of Trafalgar -- Charles Lamb: Dream children, a revery. Detached thoughts on books and reading. The superannuated man. On the death of Coleridge -- Walter Savage Landor: Essex and Spenser -- William Hazlitt: On the feeling of immortality in youth (from Winterslow) -- Thomas De Quincey: Levana and our ladies of sorrow. The English mail -- coach -- Thomas Carlyle: The city by night (from Sartor Resartus). Natural supernaturalism. Shakespeare (from Heroes and hero worship) -- Thomas Babington Macaulay: Milton -- John Henry Newman: Site of a university. The Lombards -- James Anthony Froude: Defeat of the Armada -- John Ruskin: The lamp of memory. Traffic (from The crown of wild olive).
• William Makepeace Thackeray: The Restoration drama (from Congreve and Addison). Nil Nisi Bonum -- Matthew Arnold: The study of poetry -- Walter Horatio Pater: The school of Giorgione -- Robert Louis Stevenson: Aes triplex. Pulvis et Umbra -- John Wyclif: St. Mathew XIII -- William Tyndale: St. Matthew XIII -- Sir John Mandeville: The enchanted valley, or the valley of devils. King Alexander and the Isle of Bragamen -- Sir Thomas Mallory: The passing of Arthur. Sir Ector#x19;s lament for Sir Launcelot -- Sir Thomas More: The people are urged to choose Richard for their king -- Roger Ascham: The training of children -- Sir Walter Raleigh: The danger and vanity of a love of fame. On death -- Richard Hakluyt: The death of Sir Humphrey Gilbert -- John Lyly: A fair exterior of deceitful -- Sir Philip Sidney: The pre -- eminence of poetry. Claius describes Urania. A description of Arcadia.

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^^^02025406^

OCLC

228877

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library