A Book of English Prose

A Book of English Prose, by
Percy Lubbock

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Title: A Book of English Prose
Part II, Arranged for Secondary and High
Schools
Author: Percy Lubbock
Release Date: November 14, 2006 [EBook #19811]
Language: English
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A Book of English Prose

Part II
Arranged for Secondary and High Schools
BY
PERCY LUBBOCK, M.A.

KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge:
at the University Press
1913

Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

PREFATORY NOTE
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.
P. L.

October 1913

CONTENTS
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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
The Vanity of Greatness . . . . . . . . . . . Sir Walter Ralegh 12
The Law of Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Hooker 16
Of Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Francis Bacon 17
Meditation on Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . William Drummond 19
Primitive Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Hobbes 21
Character of a Plodding Student . . . . . . . . . . John Earle 24
Charity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sir Thomas Browne 25
The Danger of interfering with the Liberty of the
Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Milton 27
Death of Falkland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Earl of Clarendon 30
The End of the Pilgrimage . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Bunyan 35
Poetry and Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sir William Temple 40
A Day in the Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Samuel Pepys 42

Captain Singleton in China . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Defoe 46
The Art of Conversation . . . . . . . . . . . . Jonathan Swift 51
The Royal Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joseph Addison 56
Sir Roger de Coverley's Ancestors . . . . . . . Richard Steele 60
Partridge at the Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henry Fielding 65
A Journey in a Stage-coach . . . . . . . . . . . Samuel Johnson 71
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 . . . . . .