An Invitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jane Austen 113
Coleridge as Preacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Hazlitt 118
A Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas de Quincey 120
The Use of Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Keats 122
The Flight to Varennes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Carlyle 124
The Trial of the Seven Bishops . . . . . . . . . . Lord Macaulay 130
The University of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. H. Newman 135
The House of the Seven Gables . . . . . . . Nathaniel Hawthorne 140
Denis Duval's first journey to London . . . . . W. M. Thackeray 144
Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles Dickens 149