Choice Specimens of English LiteratureBoD – Books on Demand, 2023 M05 5 - 540 pages Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 8 |
Chaucer 13281400 From | 18 |
B ENGLISH POETS | 25 |
Sir Thomas More 14801535 | 32 |
From the Nosce Telpsum | 56 |
Sir Walter Raleigh 15521618 | 62 |
Of Cunning | 77 |
Execution of Montrose | 194 |
Isaac Barrow 16301677 | 201 |
From the Rape of the Lock | 212 |
Thoughts on Various Subjects | 218 |
CHAPTER XVI | 225 |
From Cato | 231 |
CHAPTER XVII | 241 |
Edward Gibbon 17371794 | 261 |
CHAPTER VII | 83 |
The Terrors of Death | 89 |
76 The Power of Imagination | 99 |
CHAPTER IX | 118 |
William Browne 15901645 | 125 |
The Last Judgment | 137 |
CHAPTER XII | 168 |
On Milton | 175 |
BYRON MOORE SHELLEY KEATS AND CAMPBELL | 361 |
CHAPTER XXII | 405 |
the Fair Imogene | 442 |
CHAPTER XXIV | 481 |
From his Speech on American | 487 |
Charles James Fox 17491806 | 499 |
INDEX OF AUTHORS | 509 |
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