Produced by Al Haines 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 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 . . . . . . . . . . _Sir Walter Scott_ 100