A Visit to Coleridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Charles Lamb_ 107 Diogenes and Plato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _W. S. Landor_ 109 An Invitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Jane Austen_ 113 Coleridge as Preacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . _William Hazlitt_ 118 A Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Thomas de Quincey_ 120 The Use of Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _John Keats_ 122 The Flight to Varennes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Thomas Carlyle_ 124 The Trial of the Seven Bishops . . . . . . . . . . _Lord Macaulay_ 130 The University of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _J. H. Newman_ 135 The House of the Seven Gables . . . . . . . _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ 140 Denis Duval's first journey to London . . . . . _W. M. Thackeray_ 144 Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Charles Dickens_ 149 Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester . . . . . . . . . . . _Charlotte Bronte_ 153 A Hut in the Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _H. D. Thoreau_ 157 A Miser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _George Eliot_ 159 Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _John Ruskin_ 163 The Child in the House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Walter Pater_ 168 Diving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _R. L. Stevenson_ 171 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 {1} SIR THOMAS MALORY 15th century DEATH OF SIR GAWAINE And so, as Sir Mordred was at Dover with his host, there came King Arthur with a great navy of ships, galleys, and carracks. And there was Sir Mordred ready waiting upon his landing, to let his own father to land upon the land that he was king of. Then was there launching of great boats and small, and all were full of noble men of arms; and there was much slaughter of gentle knights, and many a full bold baron was laid full low on both parties. But King Arthur was so courageous, that there might no manner of knight let him to land, and his knights fiercely followed him, and so they landed maugre Sir Mordred and all his power, and put Sir Mordred back, that he fled and all his people. So when this battle was done, King Arthur let bury his people that were dead. And then was the noble knight Sir Gawaine found in a great boat, lying more than half dead. When King Arthur wist that Sir Gawaine was laid so low, he went unto him; and there the king made sorrow out of measure, and took Sir Gawaine in his arms, and thrice he swooned. And when he came to himself again, he said, "Alas! my sister's son, here now thou liest, the man in the world {2} that I loved most, and now is my joy gone. For now, my nephew Sir Gawaine, I will discover me unto your person. In Sir Launcelot and you I most had my joy and mine affiance, and now have I lost my joy of you both, wherefore all mine earthly joy is gone from me." "My uncle King Arthur," said Sir