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The Best of the World's Classics - Volume V of 10 - Great Britain and Ireland—III

The Best of the World's Classics - Volume V of 10 - Great Britain and Ireland—III

by Henry Cabot Lodge

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Editor
Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919
Title
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
Credits
Produced by Joseph R. Hauser, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Literature -- Collections
Category
Text
eBook-No.
22182
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22182
Release Date
July 30, 2007
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE BEST — of the — World's Classics — RESTRICTED TO PROSE
  2. 2.FRANCIS W. HALSEY — Associate Editor — With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc. — IN TEN VOLUMES — Vol. V — GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—III — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY — NEW YORK AND LONDON — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
  3. 3.The Best of the World's Classics — VOL. V — GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—III — 1740—1881
  4. 4.Vol. V — Great Britain and Ireland —III
  5. 5.GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND—III — 1740—1881
  6. 6.JAMES BOSWELL
  7. 7.BOSWELL'S INTRODUCTION TO DR. JOHNSON [1]
  8. 8.JOHNSON'S AUDIENCE WITH GEORGE III [3]
  9. 9.THE MEETING OF DR. JOHNSON AND JOHN WILKES [4]
  10. 10.JOHNSON'S WEDDING-DAY [5] — FOOTNOTES:
  11. 11.WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
  12. 12.A POET DEFINED [6] — FOOTNOTES:
  13. 13.SIR WALTER SCOTT
  14. 14.THE ARRIVAL OF THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD [7]
  15. 15.THE DEATH OF MEG MERRILES [8]
  16. 16.A VISION OF ROB ROY [9]
  17. 17.QUEEN ELIZABETH AND AMY ROBSART AT KENILWORTH [10]
  18. 18.THE ILLNESS AND DEATH OF LADY SCOTT [12] — (1826) — FOOTNOTES:
  19. 19.SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
  20. 20.DOES FORTUNE FAVOR FOOLS? [15]
  21. 21.THE DESTINY OF THE UNITED STATES [16] — FOOTNOTES:
  22. 22.ROBERT SOUTHEY
  23. 23.NELSON'S DEATH AT TRAFALGAR [18] — (1805) — FOOTNOTES:
  24. 24.WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
  25. 25.THE DEATH OF HOFER [20] — (1810)
  26. 26.NAPOLEON AND PERICLES — FOOTNOTES:
  27. 27.CHARLES LAMB
  28. 28.DREAM-CHILDREN—A REVERIE [21]
  29. 29.POOR RELATIONS [22]
  30. 30.THE ORIGIN OF ROAST PIG [23]
  31. 31.THAT WE SHOULD RISE WITH THE LARK [24] — FOOTNOTES:
  32. 32.WILLIAM HAZLITT
  33. 33.HAMLET [25] — FOOTNOTES:
  34. 34.THOMAS DE QUINCEY
  35. 35.DREAMS OF AN OPIUM-EATER [26]
  36. 36.JOAN OF ARC [27]
  37. 37.CHARLES LAMB [28] — FOOTNOTES:
  38. 38.LORD BYRON
  39. 39.OF HIS MOTHER'S TREATMENT OF HIM [29]
  40. 40.TO HIS WIFE AFTER THE SEPARATION [31]
  41. 41.TO SIR WALTER SCOTT [32]
  42. 42.OF ART AND NATURE AS POETICAL SUBJECTS [34] — FOOTNOTES:
  43. 43.PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
  44. 44.IN DEFENSE OF POETRY [37]
  45. 45.THE BATHS OF CARACALLA [38]
  46. 46.THE RUINS OF POMPEII [39] — FOOTNOTES:
  47. 47.GEORGE GROTE
  48. 48.THE MUTILATION OF THE HERMÆ [40]
  49. 49.IF ALEXANDER HAD LIVED [43] — FOOTNOTES:
  50. 50.THOMAS CARLYLE
  51. 51.CHARLOTTE CORDAY [46]
  52. 52.THE BLESSEDNESS OF WORK [48]
  53. 53.CROMWELL [49]
  54. 54.IN PRAISE OF THOSE WHO TOIL [50]
  55. 55.THE CERTAINTY OF JUSTICE [51]
  56. 56.THE GREATNESS OF SCOTT [52]
  57. 57.BOSWELL AND HIS BOOK [54]
  58. 58.MIGHT BURNS HAVE BEEN SAVED [55] — FOOTNOTES:
  59. 59.LORD MACAULAY
  60. 60.PURITANS AND ROYALISTS [56]
  61. 61.CROMWELL'S ARMY [57]
  62. 62.THE OPENING OF THE TRIAL OF WARREN HASTINGS [58]
  63. 63.THE GIFT OF ATHENS TO MAN [59]
  64. 64.THE PATHOS OF BYRON'S LIFE [61] — FOOTNOTES: — END OF VOL. V.

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