A Book of English Prose / Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
Produced by Al Haines
A Book of English Prose
Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
Cambridge:
at the University Press
1913
Cambridge:
The Editor desires to record his thanks to Messrs Macmillan & Co., Ltd., Messrs Chatto & Windus and Messrs Longmans, Green & Co., for their respective permission to include in this volume passages from Walter Pater's Miscellaneous Studies , from R. L. Stevenson's Random Memories and from Newman's Historical Sketches .
October 1913
Death of Sir Gawaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sir Thomas Malory 1
The Queen's Speech to her last Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . Elizabeth, Queen of England 4
Death of Cleopatra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sir Thomas North 8
Percy Lubbock
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KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
PREFATORY NOTE
CONTENTS
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ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND
SIR WALTER RALEGH 1552-1618
FRANCIS BACON 1561-1626
WILLIAM DRUMMOND 1585-1649
THOMAS HOBBES 1588-1679
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 1605-1682
JOHN MILTON 1608-1674
EARL OF CLARENDON 1609-1674
JOHN BUNYAN 1628-1688
SAMUEL PEPYS 1633-1703
DANIEL DEFOE 1660-1731
JONATHAN SWIFT 1667-1745
JOSEPH ADDISON 1672-1719
LAURENCE STERNE 1713-1768
HORACE WALPOLE 1717-1797
EDMUND BURKE 1729-1797
WILLIAM COWPER 1731-1800
JAMES BOSWELL 1740-1795
SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771-1832
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR 1775-1864
JANE AUSTEN 1775-1817
WILLIAM HAZLITT 1778-1830
THOMAS DE QUINCEY 1785-1859
THOMAS CARLYLE 1795-1881
LORD MACAULAY 1800-1859
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 1804-1864
CHARLES DICKENS 1812-1870
CHARLOTTE BRONTË 1816-1855
GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) 1819-1880
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON 1850-1894