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INTRODUCTORY SKETCH,

CHAUCER,

The Knight; The Squire; The Parson; The Scholar and the

Daisy ; Truth shall Deliver Thee.

SPENSER,

The Passing of the Seasons and the Months; The Tale of

the Oake and the Briar.

HOOKER,

The Law of Reason.

Bacon, -
Friendship; On Discourse.

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SHAKESPEARE,

Mark Antony's Oration; Wolsey's Farewell; The Character

of Wolsey; Human Life ; Mercy ; Nature's Thrift;

Adversity TAYLOR,

Anger; Insignificance of Man; Prayer. MILTON,

Freedom of the Press; A Nation in its Strength; Light;

Lycidas ; When the Assault was intended to the City;

On his Blindness ; To Cyriac Skinner. CLARENDON, ·

Character of Lord Falkland. BUNYAN,

From "The Pilgrim's Progress.” DRYDEN,

The Character of the Earl of Shaftesbury ; Character of the

Duke of Buckingham ; Alexander's Feast. DEFOE,

Crusoe and the Footprint; A Skirmish of Dragoons. SWIFT,

The Spider and the Bee; The Temple of Fame. ADDISON,

The Vision of Mirza; Pedantry. PoPE,

From the “Essay on Man"; from the Satires." THOMSON,

The Hymn of the Seasons. GRAY,

Elegy. STERNE,

Slavery; The Story of Le Fever. GOLDSMITH,

From “ The Traveller”; The Deserted Village ; from the

“Retaliation”; City Night Piece. JOHNSON,

Cowley and his Contemporaries ; Letter to the Earl of

Chesterfield; The Vanity of Human Wishes.
BURKE,-
Criticism of Government a Duty; The Use and Abuse of

Party ; American Taxation ; The Spirit of Liberty in the

American Colonies.
GIBBON,
From "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."

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CRABBÉ,

Isaac Ashford, a Noble Peasant. BURNS,

The Cotter's Saturday Night; Man was Made to Mourn; To a

Mountain Daisy; À Man's a Man for a' that; Devotion. COWPER,

Slavery; My Mother's Picture; To Mary. SCOTT,

Old Mortality ; Death of the Master of Ravenswood ; The

Battle of Flodden Field. WORDSWORTH,

Ode on the Intimations of Immortality; The Fountain : a

Conversation; Upon Westminster Bridge ; The World is

Too Much with us ; To Milton; Tintern Abbey. COLERIDGE,

Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni. BYRON,

Stauzas for Music; My Native Land, Good-night; Rome;

The Ocean ; Greece ; rom the Drama “ Manfred.” SHELLEY,

To a Skylark; The Cloud. KEATS,

To Autumn; On first looking into Chapman's Homer; On the

Grasshopper and Cricket. HALLAM,

The English Revolution. MACAULAY,

The Last Days of Argyle. DICKENS,

A Shipwreck. MAURICE,

The Friendship of Books. CARLYLE,

Childhood ; The Character of Burns. RUSKIN,

Man's Use and Function. FROUDE,

Queen Elizabeth at Oxford. TENNYSON,

Morte d'Arthur.

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