The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)$1 (BGreat Britain and Ireland IIs - Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919; Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 (Project Gutenberg, 2007)
Of Companions and Flatterers. by Steele -- The Story-Teller and His Art. by Steele -- Sir Roger and the Widow. by Steele -- The Coverley Family Portraits. by Steele -- On Certain Symptoms of Greatness. by Steele -- How to Be Happy tho Married. by Steele -- Of the Shortness of Human Life. by Bolingbroke -- Rules for the Study of History. by Bolingbroke -- An Ancient English Country Seat. by Pope -- His Compliments to Lady Mary. by Pope -- How to Make an Epic Poem. by Pope -- On Happiness in the Matrimonial State. by Montagu -- Inoculation for the Smallpox. by Montagu -- Of Good Manners, Dress and the World. by Chesterfield -- Of Attentions to Ladies. by Chesterfield -- Tom the Hero Enters the Stage; Partridge Sees Garrick at the Play. by Fielding from "Tom Jones" -- Mr. Adams in a Political Light. by Fielding from "Joseph Andrews" -- On Publishing His "Dictionary." by Johnson from the "Dictionary" -- Pope and Dryden Compared. by Johnson from the "Lives of the Poets" -- Letter to Chesterfield on the Completion of the "Dictionary." by Johnson from Boswell's "Life" -- On the Advantages of Living in a Garret. by Johnson -- The Character of Queen Elizabeth; The Defeat of the Armada. by Hume from the "History of England" -- The First Principles of Government. by Hume -- The Starling in Captivity; To Moulines with Maria. by Sterne from "The Sentimental Journey" -- The Death of LeFevre; Passages from the Romance of My Uncle Toby and the Widow. by Sterne from "Tristram Shandy" -- Warwick Castle. by Gray -- To His Friend Mason on the Death of Mason's Mother. by Gray -- On His Own Writings. by Gray -- His Friendship for Bonstetten. by Gray -- Hogarth. by Walpole from the "Anecdotes of Painting in England" -- The War in America. by Walpole -- The Death of George II. by Walpole -- The Chimney Swallow. by White from "The Natural History of Selborne" -- Of Ambition Misdirected. by Smith from the "Theory of Moral Sentiments" -- The Advantages of a Division of Labor. by Smith from "The Wealth of Nations" -- Professional Soldiers in Free Countries. by Blackstone from the "Commentaries" -- The Ambitions of the Vicar's Family. by Goldsmith from "The Vicar of Wakefield" -- Sagacity in Insects. by Goldsmith from "The Bee" -- A Chinaman's View of London. by Goldsmith from the "Citizen of the World" -- The Principles of Good Taste. by Burke from "The Sublime and Beautiful" -- A Letter to a Noble Lord. by Burke -- On the Death of His Son. by Burke -- Marie Antoinette. by Burke from the "Reflections on the Revolution in France" -- Of Keeping One's Self Employed. by Cowper -- Of Johnson's Treatment of Milton. by Cowper -- On the Publication of His Books. by Cowper -- The Romance of His Youth; The Inception and Completion of the "Decline and Fall;" The Fall of Zenobia; Alaric's Entry into Rome; The Death of Hosein; The Causes of the Destruction of the City of Rome. by Gibbon from "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
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