Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim . . . . . . . . . . Laurence Sterne 76
The Funeral of George II . . . . . . . . . . . . Horace Walpole 79
The Credulity of the English . . . . . . . . . . Oliver Goldsmith 83
Decay of the Principles of Liberty . . . . . . . . . Edmund Burke 85
The Candidate for Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . William Cowper 89
Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Gibbon 93
First Sight of Dr Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . James Boswell 94
Arrival at Osbaldistone Hall . . . . . . . . . . Sir Walter Scott 100
A Visit to Coleridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles Lamb 107
Diogenes and Plato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W. S. Landor 109