A Book of English Prose (PDF, MOBI, EPUB, FB2, TEXT)

Death of Sir Gawaine -- Sir Thomas Malory The Queen's Speech to her last Parliament -- Elizabeth, Queen of England Death of Cleopatra -- Sir Thomas North The Vanity of Greatness -- Sir Walter Ralegh The Law of Nations -- Richard Hooker Of Studies -- Francis Bacon Meditation on Death -- William Drummond Primitive Life -- Thomas Hobbes Character of a Plodding Student -- John Earle Charity -- Sir Thomas Browne The Danger of interfering with the Liberty of the Press -- John Milton Death of Falkland -- Earl of Clarendon The End of the Pilgrimage -- John Bunyan Poetry and Music -- Sir William Temple A Day in the Country -- Samuel Pepys Captain Singleton in China -- Daniel Defoe The Art of Conversation -- Jonathan Swift The Royal Exchange -- Joseph Addison Sir Roger de Coverley's Ancestors -- Richard Steele Partridge at the Play -- Henry Fielding A Journey in a Stage-coach -- Samuel Johnson Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim -- Laurence Sterne The Funeral of George II -- Horace Walpole The Credulity of the English -- Oliver Goldsmith Decay of the Principles of Liberty -- Edmund Burke The Candidate for Parliament -- William Cowper Youth -- Edward Gibbon First Sight of Dr Johnson -- James Boswell Arrival at Osbaldistone Hall -- Sir Walter Scott A Visit to Coleridge -- Charles Lamb Diogenes and Plato -- W S Landor An Invitation -- Jane Austen Coleridge as Preacher -- William Hazlitt A Dream -- Thomas de Quincey The Use of Poetry -- John Keats The Flight to Varennes -- Thomas Carlyle The Trial of the Seven Bishops -- Lord Macaulay The University of Athens -- J H Newman The House of the Seven Gables -- Nathaniel Hawthorne Denis Duval's first journey to London -- W M Thackeray Storm -- Charles Dickens Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester -- Charlotte Brontë A Hut in the Woods -- H D Thoreau A Miser -- George Eliot Ships -- John Ruskin The Child in the House -- Walter Pater Diving -- R L Stevenson