Death of Sir Gawaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Sir Thomas Malory_ The Queen's Speech to her last Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . _Elizabeth, Queen of England_ Death of Cleopatra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Sir Thomas North_ The Vanity of Greatness . . . . . . . . . . . _Sir Walter Ralegh_ The Law of Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Richard Hooker_ Of Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Francis Bacon_ Meditation on Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . _William Drummond_ Primitive Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Thomas Hobbes_ Character of a Plodding Student . . . . . . . . . . _John Earle_ Charity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Sir Thomas Browne_ The Danger of interfering with the Liberty of the Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _John Milton_ Death of Falkland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Earl of Clarendon_ The End of the Pilgrimage . . . . . . . . . . . . . _John Bunyan_ Poetry and Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Sir William Temple_ A Day in the Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Samuel Pepys_ Captain Singleton in China . . . . . . . . . . . . _Daniel Defoe_ The Art of Conversation . . . . . . . . . . . . _Jonathan Swift_ The Royal Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Joseph Addison_ Sir Roger de Coverley's Ancestors . . . . . . . _Richard Steele_ Partridge at the Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Henry Fielding_ A Journey in a Stage-coach . . . . . . . . . . . _Samuel Johnson_ Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim . . . . . . . . . . _Laurence Sterne_ The Funeral of George II . . . . . . . . . . . . _Horace Walpole_ The Credulity of the English . . . . . . . . . . _Oliver Goldsmith_ Decay of the Principles of Liberty . . . . . . . . . _Edmund Burke_ The Candidate for Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . _William Cowper_ Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Edward Gibbon_ First Sight of Dr Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . _James Boswell_ Arrival at Osbaldistone Hall . . . . . . . . . . _Sir Walter Scott_ 1 A Visit to Coleridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Charles Lamb_ Diogenes and Plato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _W. S. Landor_ An Invitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Jane Austen_ Coleridge as Preacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . _William Hazlitt_ A Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Thomas de Quincey_ The Use of Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _John Keats_ The Flight to Varennes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Thomas Carlyle_ The Trial of the Seven Bishops . . . . . . . . . . _Lord Macaulay_ The University of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _J. H. Newman_ The House of the Seven Gables . . . . . . . _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ Denis Duval's first journey to London . . . . . _W. M. Thackeray_ Storm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Charles Dickens_ Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester . . . . . . . . . . . _Charlotte Bront?_ A Hut in the Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _H. D. Thoreau_ A Miser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _George Eliot_ Ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _John Ruskin_ The Child in the House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Walter Pater_ Diving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _R. L. Stevenson_