CONTENTS
The Age o! Shakespeare
S P E N S E R (1552(?)—1599)
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Una and the Lion
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Pa e
' P O P E (1688—1744)
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Belinda at her Toilet-Table . . . 42
From T h e Iliad of Homer . . . 43
The Powers and Frailties of Man . 44
S H A K E S P E A R E (1564—1616)
From the Sonnets
Antony's Address to the Romans .
Macbeth before murdering Duncan
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7
B A C O N (1561—1626)
Of Studies
8
Y O U N G (1683—1765)
From Night Thoughts
The Age of Johnson
THOMSON (noo—1748)
From The Seasons
Rule, Britannia
The Age of Milton
M I L T O N ( I 608—1674)
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On his Blindness
From Para'dise Lost
10
10
BUNYAN (1628—1688)
. Christian in the Hands of Giant
Despair
. 15
From Clarissa Harlowe
FIELDING
S T E R N E (1713—1768)
JOHNSON
(no9—1784)
GOLDSMITH
(1728—1774)
A Country Parsonage
61
G R A Y (1716—1771)
SHAFTESBURY (1671—1713)
The Beauty and Harmony of the
World
22
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S W I F T (i 667—1745)
A Meditation upon a Broomstick , 29
From Gulliver's Travels . . . . 29
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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard .
63
PERCY
(1729-isii)
The Ancient Ballad of Chevy Chase 67
Sir Patrick Spence
71
Edward, Edward
72
MACPHERSON (1736—1796)
The Songs of Selma . . . . . .
ADAM SMITH
33
36
'ADDISON (1672—1719)
Sir Roger d e Coverley in Westminster Abbey
38
On Politeness
40
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Shakespeare and the Unities. . . 58
. . 18
The Age of Pope
STEELE (1672—1729)
The Spectator Club
O n Envy
(1707-1754)
Partridge in the Playhouse . . . 53
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D E F O E (1659—1731)
From Robinson Crusoe
. . . . 51
Le Patisser
L O C K E (1632—1704)
Reading
47
50
R I C H A R D S O N (1689—1761)
The Age of Dryden
DRYDEN (1631—1700)
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
45
73
(1723-1790)
Of the Division of Labour . . . 78
HUME
(1711-1776)
Of the Origin of Our Ideas . . . 79
The Character of Queen Elizabeth . 82
R O B E R T S O N (1721—1793)
The Execution of Mary Stuart . . 83
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GIBBON
(1737-1794)
Alaric at Rome
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B U R K E (1729—1797)
Summary of the Charges against
Warren Hastings
P I T T (1759—1806)
On the Abolition of African SlaveTrade
COWPER (1731—1800)
John Gilpin
From The Task
J
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/MOORE (1779—1852)
The Harp that once through Tara's
Halls
'Tis the Last Rose of Summer .
The Minstrel-Boy
90
Oft in the Stilly Night . . . .
Those Evening Bells
87
7
92
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99
B U R N S (1759—1796)
BYRON (1788—1824)
Prometheus
.135
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 135
Soliloquy of Manfred
140
From Don Juan
141
SHELLEY
(1792-1822)
To a Mouse
101
Ode to the West Wind . . . .
Auld Lang Syne
102
The Cloud
Sweet Afton
102
To a Skylark
My Heart's in the Highlands . . 103
From Adonais
Ae Fond Kiss
103
To Night
. Scots, wha hae
103
Is there for Honest Poverty . . 104 ' K E A T S (1795—1821)
From Endymion
: . . ... .
Ode on a Grecian Urn . . . .
The Age of Byron
To Autumn
W O R D S W O R T H (1770—1850)
From Hyperion
J We are Seven
105
L A M B (1775—1834)
Lines Written in Early Spring . 106
Old China
Lines Composed a Few Miles above
Tintern Abbey
106 D E QUINCEY (1785—1859)
Going down with Victory . . .
Lucy .
. 110
Composed upon Westminster
Bridge
110
The Age of Tennyson
The Solitary Reaper
111
Daffodils
111 CARLYLE (1795—1881)
Labour
C O L E R I D G E (1772—1834)
Portrait of Frederick the Great .
Christabel
112
On the Franco-German War . .
Frost at Midnight
116
The Mob in the Chateau of Ver; SOUTHEY (1774—1843)
sailles
The Battle of Blenheim . . . . 117
D I C K E N S (isi2—1870)
The Inchcape Rock
119
David Copperfield on his Way to
1 S C O T T (1771—1832)
School . . .' Before the Battle of Flodden Field 121
David Copperfield in the Factory
The Ordeal
123
THACKERAY (ISII—1863)
Mary Stuart as a Prisoner at
Becky Sharp
Lochleven Castle
126
The Last Years of George III.. .
C A M P B E L L (1777—1844)
Ye Mariners of E n g l a n d . . . . 131
HohenlJnden'
132
132
133
133
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134
KlNGSLEY (1819—1875)
How Hereward slew the Bear.
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150
151
152
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157
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170
173
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180
189
191
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GEORGE
ELIOT
H O O D (1799—1845) 'I Remember, I R e m e m b e r ' . . . 200
The Song of the Shirt . . . . 200
TENNYSON
(18O9—1892)
The Lady of Shalott
202
Ulysses
204
The Passing of Arthur . . . . 206
'Break, Break, Break'
211
From In Memoriam
212
The Charge of the Light Brigade 212
Grossing the Bar . . . : . .
213
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E. B. B R O W N I N G
BROWNING
(I812—1889)
• My Last Duchess
How they brought the Good News
from Ghent to Aix
Love among the Ruins . . . .
Evelyn Hope
Abt Vogler
Pompilia o n her Death-Bed . .
Epilogue
ARNOLD
221
222
223
225
227
229
232
(1822—1888)
Apollo Musagetes
Saint Brandan . . . . . . .
Dover Beach
The English Mind
233
233
235
236
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238
241
FROUDE (1818—1894)
Henry VIII
DARWIN
.248
(18O9—1882)
Natural Selection
MILL
251
(1806—1873)
The Place of-Art in Education
SPENCER
. 254
(I820—1903)
Culture
CHRISTINA
ROSSETTI
MORRIS
256
Truth in Art
_. .-259
Treasures Hidden in Books
. . 260
(1830—18Q4)
268
269
269
269
(1834—1896)
Summer Dawn
Riding Together
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A Garden by the Sea . . . .
The Passing Away of Brynhild .
MEREDITH
275
. . . " . " . ,276
278
281
(1828—1909)
The Egoist
281
STEVENSON
(1850—1894)
Edinburgh
El Dorado
KIPLING
270
271
272
272
(1837—1 QOQ)
Hymn to Artemis'
A Forsaken Garden
By the North Sea
A Child's Laughter
-.- .
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. 284
286
(b. 1865)
How Mowgli entered the Seeonee
Wolf-Pack
288
The Deep-Sea Cables
291
Recessional
292
The White Man's Burden . . . 292
AMERICAN AUTHORS
(1783—1859)
Rip Van Winkle's Return
LONGFELLOW
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The White Man's Foot
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P O E (1809—1849)
The Raven
297
298
298
299
299
301
(1803—1882)
Heroism
WHITMAN
293
(18O7—1882)
A Psalm of Life
The Village Blacksmith
The Rainy Day
Excelsior
EMERSON
RUSK1N ( 1 8 1 9 - 1 9 0 0 )
Be
. . . 265
. . . 266
Song
Vanity of Vanities
Amor Mundi . . . . ' . . . .
Sursum Corda
IRVING
MACAULAY (1800—1859)
London in 1685
The Battle of Sedgemoor
.The Blessed Damozel . .
From T h e House of Life
SWINBURNE
(I8O6—i86i)
The Cry of the Children
. . . 214
The Romance of the Swan's Nest 217
From Sonnets from the Portuguese 219
ROBERT
Pa
D . G . ROSSETTI (1828—1882)
(I819—1880)
Silas M a r n e r a n d h i s G o l d . . . 1 9 8
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304
(1819—1892)
Patrolling Barnegat
O Captain! My Captain
. . .
308
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APPENDIX
Glossary
Pronouncing Glossary of Proper Names
Index
Chief Dates
English Kings
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