A Book of English Prose

Book Excerpt: ...Death of Sir Gawaine -- Sir Thomas MaloryThe Queen's Speech to her last Parliament -- Elizabeth, Queen of EnglandDeath of Cleopatra -- Sir Thomas NorthThe Vanity of Greatness -- Sir Walter RaleghThe Law of Nations -- Richard HookerOf Studies -- Francis BaconMeditation on Death -- William DrummondPrimitive Life -- Thomas HobbesCharacter of a Plodding Student -- John EarleCharity -- Sir Thomas BrowneThe Danger of interfering with the Liberty of the Press -- John MiltonDeath of Falkland -- Earl of ClarendonThe End of the Pilgrimage -- John BunyanPoetry and Music -- Sir William TempleA Day in the Country -- Samuel PepysCaptain Singleton in China -- Daniel DefoeThe Art of Conversation -- Jonathan SwiftThe Royal Exchange -- Joseph AddisonSir Roger de Coverley's Ancestors -- Richard SteelePartridge at the Play -- Henry FieldingA Journey in a Stage-coach -- Samuel JohnsonUncle Toby and Corporal Trim -- Laurence SterneThe Funeral of George II -- Horace WalpoleThe Credulity of the English -- Oliver GoldsmithDecay of the Principles of Liberty -- Edmund BurkeThe Candidate for Parliament -- William CowperYouth -- Edward GibbonFirst Sight of Dr Johnson -- James BoswellArrival at Osbaldistone Hall -- Sir Walter ScottA Visit to Coleridge -- Charles LambDiogenes and Plato -- W S LandorAn Invitation -- Jane AustenColeridge as Preacher -- William HazlittA Dream -- Thomas de QuinceyThe Use of Poetry -- John KeatsThe Flight to Varennes -- Thomas CarlyleThe Trial of the Seven Bishops -- Lord MacaulayThe University of Athens -- J H NewmanThe House of the Seven Gables -- Nathaniel HawthorneDenis Duval's first journey to London -- W M ThackerayStorm -- Charles DickensJane Eyre and Mr Rochester -- Charlotte Bront A Hut in the Woods -- H D ThoreauA Miser -- George EliotShips -- John RuskinThe Child in the House -- Walter PaterDiving -- R L Stevenson...