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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ; Buckle, Henry Thomas. The love of money -- Burton, Sir Richard Francis. At Meccah the pilgrim?s goal -- Arnold, Matthew. Oxford. English and French prose, a contrast. Sweetness and light -- Freeman, Edward Augustus. The nurse of snow and fire -- Blackmore, Richard Doddridge. Fear in the mist -- Huxley, Thomas Henry. Man and the lower animals -- Bagehot, Walter. Gibbon?s style -- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. A vision of the soul -- Meredith, George. A diversion played on a penny-whistle. Philosophy and fiction. The comic spirit -- Morris, William. When knights were bold -- Butler, Samuel. Musical banks -- Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Lake of Gaube. Robert Herrick -- Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. Moral judgements of history -- Harte, Francis Bret. Among the Forty-Niners -- Pater, Walter Horatio. Monna Lisa -- Symonds, John Addington. The Sistine Chapel -- Jefferies, Richard. Out of doors in February -- Stevenson, Robert Louis. A night among the pines. Life and art. Woman she is -- Sharp, William. High noon. The reed player. Whirled stars -- Wilde, Oscar Fingall O?Flahertie Wills. The artist -- The Authorized version of the holy Bible. Preface by the translators. A Messianic vision. Let us now praise famous men. Charity. The Book of Common Prayer: A General confession. The exhortation to the Holy Communion. A bidding prayer. ; Holmes, Oliver Wendell. An infirmary for books -- Kinglake, Alexander William. The sphynx. Constantinople -- Lincoln, Abraham. Gettysburg -- Poe, Edgar Allan. In the hands of the Inquisition. Carpets and culture -- Brown, John. Rab -- Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. The return of the whaler. Engaged to be married -- Bright, John. The angel of death -- Thackeray, William Makepeace. The fighting Temeraire. Telmessus. The duel with the prince. Snobs -- Browning, Robert. Strafford -- Dickens, Charles. The high court of chancery. At Do-the-boys Hall. Blood-stains. Mrs. Sapsea, in memoriam -- Smiles, Samuel. Manners -- Helps, Sir Arthur. The art of leaving off -- Motley, John Lothrop. Two heroes -- Reade, Charles. The good duke and the arts -- Dana, Richard Henry. A tropical thunderstorm -- Trollope, Anthony. The church in dishabille -- Bronte, Charlotte Nicholls. Nature at evening prayers. A first impression of Belgium -- Jowett, Benjamin. Philosophy and politics -- Thoreau, Henry David. Silence -- Froude, James Anthony. The old order changeth. The last of the Armada. The Iliad -- Cross, Mary Ann (George Eliot). Adam Bede. The inspiration of the East -- Kingsley, Charles. Tobacco. Monotony -- Lowell, James Russell. The sea and sentiment. The pious editor?s creed -- Ruskin, John. The boyhood of Turner. St. Mark?s rest. The peerage of words. Work noble and ignoble -- Whitman, Walt. The bloodbeats of song -- Spencer, Herbert. Democracy in dress -- Tyndall, John. Alone on Monte Rosa. ; Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Poetry and prose: a vulgar error. Niobe -- Lockhart, John Gilson. The influence of Burns -- Carlyle, Thomas. Human dignity. The beautifullest and the squalidest. John Sterling?s last days. Professor Teufelsdrockh?s style -- Hare, Julius Charles. Italics -- John Keats. Preface to ?Endymion? -- Prescott, William Hickling. The colonization of America -- Bancroft, George. The Virginian paradise -- Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron Macaulay. Our debt to great minds. The prose writings of Milton. The homely dialect of Bunyan. Dr. Johnson. An admirable Crichton. Wild-cat companies -- Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh. Life in London -- Newman, John Henry, Cardinal. At bay. The religion of the day. The gentleman -- Martineau, Harriet. Up and down the pyramid -- Miller, Hugh. Naturalists? nomenclature -- Borrow, George. The Bible in Spain. The fight in the dell -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Civilization. Conformity and consistency. The secret of eternal youth. The value of the present moment -- Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer. On rhythm in prose -- Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield. The Jews -- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Woman?s generosity and strength. The faun of Praxiteles -- Maurice, Frederick Denison. The Clapham School -- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. The true poet?s crown -- Mill, John Stuart. The liberty of the individual -- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, The Alhambra -- Trench, Richard Chenefix, Archbishop of Dublin. Proverbial philosophy -- Darwin, Charles Robert. Natural selection -- Fitzgerald, Edward. Boat racing at Oxford -- Gladstone, William Ewart. The polity of the Heroic Age. England and foreign policy. ; Campbell, Thomas. Algiers from the sea -- Hallam, Henry. Light from the west -- Brougham, Henry Peter. Greek models -- Davy, Sir Humphrey. The evolution of the arts -- Hazlitt, William. On going a journey. On familiar style. The English Rabelais -- Galt, John. The placing: A.D. 1760 -- Moore, Thomas. A literary duel -- Chalmers, Thomas. The stars in their courses -- Channing, William Ellery. Nationality and style -- Webster, Daniel. Bunker Hill -- Irving, Washington. Columbus the visionary. The widow and her son -- Hunt, James Henry Leigh. The hoop. The burning of Shelley?s body -- De Quincey, Thomas. The secret of prose composition. Style as a fine art. Dreams of an opium-eater -- Napier, Sir William Francis Patrick. Fuentes Onoro. Sir John Moore -- Peacock, Thomas Love. The philosophy of life. The Venuses at Crochet Castle -- Wilson, John (Christopher North). Christopher North?s parish -- Mitford, Mary Russell. A country cricket match -- Whately, Richard, Archbishop of Dublin. Of the best foundation of style -- Byron, George Gordon, Baron. The bitterness of exile -- Milman, Henry Hart. The hymnology of the Latin church -- Alison, Sir Archibald. The freedom of the press. ; Franklin, Benjamin. The whistle -- Fielding, Henry. A moving spectacle. Jonathan Wild?s maxims. The art of dividing books. A farewell voyage -- Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham. The crime of youth. The employment of Indians in the American war. Johnson, Samuel. The Lord Chesterfield. Wit and learning. Dryden and Pope. The conquest of the air -- Hume, David. The virtue of simplicity. Women critics -- Sterne, Laurence. The cant of criticism. The poor ass -- Shenstone, William. On writing and books -- Gray, Thomas. Netley Abbey. Burnham beeches. The grande chartreuse. The laureateship -- Walpole, Horatio, Earl of Orford. Strawberry Hill. The earthquake of 1750. The sedate spectre -- Blair, Hugh. The style is the man -- White, Gilbert. Cuckoos. The tortoise -- Robertson, William. The assassination of Rizzio -- Smollett, Tobias. Tom Bowling. The rulers of the nation. The Maison Caree at Nimes -- Radcliffe, Ann. The Castle of Udolpho -- Mackintosh, Sir James. The French Revolution -- D?Israeli, Isaac. The conversation of men of genius -- Edgeworth, Maria -- The Irish haymaker -- Canning, George. The Jacobin muse. Peace and war -- Hope, Thomas. A Mohammedan teacher -- Wordsworth, William. Prose and metre -- Scott, Sir Walter. Meg Merrilies and the dominie. Desultory reading -- Smith, Sydney. Travellers? tales. Railway regulations. Mrs. Partington -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Style. Language -- Jeffrey, Francis. A touchstone of poetic taste -- Southey, Robert. Henry VIII?s popularity. The mourning for Nelson. The Pilgrim?s Progress -- Austen, Jane. A monologue. A scheme for a novel -- Lamb, Charles. Elia at Oxford. Bishop Valentine. Biblia a-biblia. Mrs. Battle?s opinion on whist. A Quakers? meeting -- Landor, Walter Savage. The society of a child. A conversation on style. Schools of poetry. A vision of love, sleep and death. ; Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of Rochester. The Augustan age of English -- Bentley, Richard. The friendship of Epicurus -- Vanbrugh, Sir John. The business of comedy -- Arbuthnot, John. The christening -- Swift, Jonathan. Inconveniences of abolishing Christianity. A meditation upon a broomstick. The duel between Hamilton and Mohun. Lawyers? practice. A standard for language -- Congreve, William. Love, before first sight. An ante-marital agreement -- Mandeville, Bernard. Like a bowl of punch -- Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Earl of Shaftesbury. Ethical doctrine -- Addison, Joseph. Westminster Abbey. The royal exchange. Sunday in the country: Sir Roger at church. Words of foreign coin. Paper manufacture -- Steele, Sir Richard. The art of story-telling. The de Coverley family portraits -- Watts, Isaac. The place of Latin in education -- Saint-John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke. Free thinking. Parliament and the executive. The joys of patriotism -- Chambers, Ephraim. Dictionaries -- Middleton, Conyers. Marcus Tullius Cicero -- Berkeley, George, Bishop of Cloyne. Fashions and liquor. The virtues of tar-water -- Gay, John. A pastoral tragedy -- Law, William. A strait-laced mother -- Pope, Alexander. A receipt to make an epic poem. At Oxford -- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. ?Ingrafting? for small-pox. To Mr. Pope from Belgrade -- Richardson, Samuel. At home and not at home. Sir Charles Grandison. Self-portraiture -- Amory, Thomas. Love-making extraordinary -- Butler, Joseph, Bishop of Durham. Conscience -- Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield -- Lord Bolingbroke. The dress of thoughts. The je ne sais quoi -- Paltock, Robert. Among the Glumms, or Flying-men -- Adams, Thomas. Comparisons -- Hervey, Lady Mary. Life in Paris -- Brooke, Henry. Imprisonment for debt -- Dodsley, Robert. The lover?s walk at the Leasowes -- Wesley, John. Dress. ; Lock, John. Exercising in English. A fruit diet -- Wood, Anthony. Oxford the home of Minerva -- Pepys, Samuel. Mr. Pepys love of music -- Savile, Sir George, Marquis of Halifax. In defence of the trimmer -- South, Robert. In God?s image. Hypocrites -- Thomas Burnet. Dies Irae -- Sprat, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester. An English academy -- Stillingfleet, Edward, Bishop of Worcester. The search for truth -- Eachard, John. Playing texts -- Glanvill, Joseph. Plainness of speech -- Russell, Rachel. The acquittal of Lord Delamere -- Traherne, Thomas. The world seen by a child -- Behn, Aphra. Perfection in ebony -- Sherlock, William. One foot in the grave -- Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury. William the Third -- Penn, William. Pride of birth -- Barclay, Robert. An apology for Quakers -- Collier, Jeremy. The chief end of comedy -- North, Roger. Music in early days -- Asgill, John. Censorship of the press -- Wallaston, William. Man and nature ; Baxter, Richard. The rest everlasting. Speech with Cromwell -- L?Estrange, Sir Roger. A fox and grapes. A wolf and a lion -- Cudworth, Ralph. The larva of religion -- Cowley, Abraham. This busy world and I. The art of agriculture -- Evelyn, John. The fire of London. Of the original of sculpture -- Hutchinson, Lucy. A hero to his wife -- Marvell, Andrew. The church?s jester -- Sidney, Algernon. The creation of kings -- Vaughan, Henry. Vanitas vanitatum -- Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. A wife?s testimony -- Fox, George. The protector and the friends -- Boyle, Robert. The style of the scriptures -- Bunyan, John. Mansoul. Mr. By-ends of fair-speech -- Temple, Sir William. Of poetry. The ideal garden -- Barrow, Isaac, Bishop of St. Asaph. Facetiousness -- Cotton, Charles. Of books -- Tillotson, John, Archbishop of Canterbury. Honesty the best policy -- Dryden, John. The father of English poetry. Dramatic poets. A layman?s creed. Fruit of old age ; John Selden. Poetry -- Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. Death, the highway of mortality -- Hobbes, Thomas. Of speech. As a race that is run -- Wither, George. An attack on booksellers -- Quarles, Francis. The covetous man?s care -- Herbert, George. The parson?s library -- Walton, Izaak. Old-fashioned poetry. The sweet singer of ?The temple? -- Howell, James. A letter on wine -- Cromwell, Oliver. Cromwell and Oxford. A familiar letter -- Fabyan, Robert. King Lear -- Holinshed, Raphael. The witches and Macbeth -- Prynne, William. Love-locks -- Earle, John, Bishop of Salisbury. A young raw preacher. A child -- Chillingworth, William. The forgiveness of injuries -- Felltham, Owen. Pulpit oratory -- Digby, Sir Kenelm. The profitableness of study -- Browne, Sir Thomas. Happy dreams. The common course of our diet. The emblems of mortal vanities -- D?Avenant, Sir William. Why books are written -- Waller, Edmund. To my lady -- Fuller, Thomas. Of jesting. The good schoolmaster. A merry digression -- Milton, John. A noble and puissant nation. The censorship of the press. The poet himself as a poem. Custom and error -- Hale, Sir Matthew. Counsel to his children -- Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon. Hampden. Lord Falkland?s open house. Montrose -- Harrington, James. Why commonwealths fall -- Leighton, Robert, Archbishop of Glasgow. The stream of salvation -- Urquhart, Sir Thomas. Scotsmen in London -- Butler, Samuel. A rabble. A small poet -- Taylor, Jeremy, Bishop of Down and Connor. Married life. Mourning. The river. The lark. The rose -- More, Henry. The mystical meaning of the creation -- Wilkins, John, Bishop of Chester. The moon a world. ; Trevisa, John De. St. Patrick?s purgatory -- Chaucer, Geoffrey. The commonplaces of Prudence. The astrolabe -- Juliana of Norwich. Divine love -- Capgrave, John. King Richard to ransom -- Fortescue, Sir John. Chill penury repressed -- Pecock, Reginald, Bishop of Chichester. Virtuous casement -- Mandeville, Sir John. Of the beginning of Mahomet -- Wycliffe, John. Right living -- Caxton, William. Caxton?s ?simple and poor cunning? -- Fisher, John, Bishop of Rochester. Hunters and Christians -- Bourchier, John, Baron Berners. The choosing of a Pope -- More, Sir Thomas. The merits of a merry tale. A providential interposition -- Latimer, Hugh, Bishop of Worcester. Bribes and wages -- Cranmer, Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury. The scripture in the vulgar tongue -- Daniel, Samuel. The danger of innovation -- Shakespeare, William. A royal wooing. Hamlet?s advice to the players. The quintessence of dust. Much virtue in if -- James I, King. The uncivil trick of smoking -- Nash, Thomas. English scholarship. A camp follower -- Wotton, Sir Henry. A letter to John Milton. A last will and testament -- Dekker, Thomas. Sitting on the stage. The appeal of conscience -- Donne, John. Mercy and compassion. Expostulations to my God -- Jonson, Benjamin. Of style. Shakespeare. Lord Bacon -- Hall, Joseph, Bishop of Exeter and Norwich. Balaam?s ass. On the sight of a great library -- Purchas, Samuel. The sea -- Peacham, Henry. Of style in speaking and writing -- Burton, Robert. Melancholy mad -- Coryate, Thomas. The use of forks at table -- Overbury, Sir Thomas. A fair and happy milkmaid -- Herbert, Edward. A knightly obligation -- Hales, John. 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