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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

PAGE

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

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A Book of English Prose by Percy Lubbock
• 2: Samuel Johnson 71Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim
• 3: As Sir Mordred was at Dover with his host
• 4: Which is my half brother Sir Mordred
• 5: But as your good was conserved in me
• 6: Cleopatra being laid upon a little low bed in poor estate
• 7: Sith our gods here have forsaken us
• 8: They found Cleopatra stark dead
• 9: What none hath dared thou hast done
• 10: And this third is the Law of Nations
• 11: And some few to be read wholly
• 12: When even in his house he locks his chests
• 13: Justice and injustice are none of the faculties
• 14: That numerous piece of monstrosity
• 15: Whereon Hannibal himself encamped his own regiment
• 16: And of untouched reputation in point of integrity
• 17: And exceedingly affected with the spleen
• 18: More pilgrims are come to town
• 19: When Christiana saw that her time was come
• 20: Whereof the last is known to have excelled in poetry
• 21: We got to Epsom by eight o'clock
• 22: Mrs Turner mightily pleased with my resolution
• 23: We sold here about sixty ton of spice
• 24: Accordingly the sloop went over
• 25: Nor yet upon which there seemeth so much to be said
• 26: Were all overrun with pedantry
• 27: Nor has traffic more enriched our vegetable world
• 28: When Sir Roger entered at the end opposite to me
• 29: You see where his viol hangs by his basket hilt sword
• 30: And narrowly escaped being killed in the Civil Wars
• 31: To which Partridge replied with a smile
• 32: Partridge made very few remarks
• 33: Where Partridge had afforded great mirth
• 34: His condescension was thrown away
• 35: Disguises himself in counterfeited merit
• 36: My uncle Toby made a lodgment too
• 37: Every seventh man bearing a torch
• 38: Found it was the Duke of Newcastle standing upon his train
• 39: So there are private incendiaries here
• 40: The principles of our forefathers become suspected to us
• 41: Mr Ashburner perhaps 92 was a little mortified
• 42: We advance in freedom as we advance in years
• 43: Have they given him a pension
• 44: I cannot think Mr Garrick would grudge such a trifle to you
• 45: Except the old priest and Rashleigh
• 46: There is 103 no great toilette kept at Osbaldistone Hall
• 47: Guns of various device and construction
• 48: We have clambered up to the top of Skiddaw
• 49: If he has been a cutthroat on many occasions
• 50: You had better explore to Donwell
• 51: And gather the strawberries ourselves
• 52: And an hour or two spent at Donwell
• 53: At last over these also the cruel quicksand had closed
• 54: By every germ of spirit sucking the sap from mould ethereal
• 55: Light little magic rod which she calls badine
• 56: Fersen understands what he is about
• 57: Here is the sleeping hamlet of Bondy
• 58: Yet were the acclamations less strange than the weeping
• 59: The attorney went with the tidings to Sunderland
• 60: Cimon took in hand the wild wood
• 61: Seemed to offer the fabled divinities of Attica
• 62: Rusty old house of the Pyncheon family
• 63: At this happy and eventful Michaelmas of 1776
• 64: Lugging his portmanteau after him through the twilight
• 65: Opens the door of the postchaise
• 66: And showered salt rain upon us
• 67: Undulating hills were changed to valleys
• 68: Adele and Mrs Fairfax drew near to see the pictures
• 69: Amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs
• 70: Silas Marner had lived in this solitude
• 71: Until the fifteenth year after he came to Raveloe
• 72: Familiar with the over flying foam
• 73: But in harbour slime and biting fog
• 74: Where Florian had passed his earliest years
• 75: The divers toiling unseen on the foundation
• 76: Pillared with the weedy uprights of the staging overhead
• 77: 13 The good advice of Cineas when Pyrrhus
• 78: His four nobles of Danegelt a noble was a coin worth 6s
• 79: In the extract here given they are lying in Chinese waters
• 80: But the royal party were stopped at Varennes