First Sight of Dr Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . _James Boswell_ 94

Arrival at Osbaldistone Hall . . . . . . . . . . _Sir Walter Scott_ 100

A Book of English Prose — Part 2

A Visit to Coleridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Charles Lamb_ 107

A Book of English Prose — Part 2

Diogenes and Plato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _W. S. Landor_ 109

A Book of English Prose — Part 2

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 Brontë_ 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