Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V
Chapter 2
CONTENTS.
_Prose._
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON _Warner's Tour in the Northern Counties._
THE OLD PHILOSOPHER AND THE YOUNG LADY _Jane Taylor_
BARBARA S---- _Charles Lamb_
DR. ARNOLD _Tom Brown's School Days_
BOYHOOD'S WORK [ditto]
WORK IN THE WORLD [ditto]
CASTLES IN THE AIR _Addison_
THE DEATH OF NELSON _Southey_
LEARNING TO RIDE _T. Hughes_
MOSES AT THE FAIR _Goldsmith_
WHANG THE MILLER [ditto]
AN ESCAPE _Defoe's Robinson Crusoe_
NECESSITY THE MOTHER OF INVENTION [ditto]
LABRADOR _Southey's Omniana_
GROWTH OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY _Robertson_
A WHALE HUNT _Scott_
A SHIPWRECK _Charles Kingsley_
THE BLACK PRINCE _Dean Stanley_
THE ASSEMBLY OF URI _E.A. Freeman_
MY WINTER GARDEN _Charles Kingsley_
ASPECTS OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN COUNTRIES _John Ruskin_
COLUMBUS IN SIGHT OF LAND _Washington Irving_
COLUMBUS SHIPWRECKED [ditto]
ROBBED IN THE DESERT _Mungo Park_
ARISTIDES _Plutarch's Lives_
THE VENERABLE BEDE _J.R. Green_
THE DEATH OF ANSELM _Dean Church_
THE MURDER OF BECKET _Dean Stanley_
THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH _J.R. Green_
THE BATTLE OF NASEBY _Defoe_
THE PILGRIMS AND GIANT DESPAIR _Bunyan_
A HARD WINTER _Rev. Gilbert White_
A PORTENTOUS SUMMER [ditto]
A THUNDERSTORM [ditto]
CHARACTER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT _J. Lockhart_
MUMPS'S HALL _Scott_
THE PORTEOUS MOB [ditto]
THE PORTEOUS MOB (_continued_) [ditto]
JOSIAH WEDGWOOD _Speech by Mr. Gladstone_
THE CRIMEAN WAR _Speech by Mr. Disraeli_
NATIONAL MORALITY _Speech by Mr. Bright_
THE PLEASURES OF A LIFE OF LABOUR _Hugh Miller_
THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS _Rev. Gilbert White_
THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA _Napier_
BATTLE OF ALBUERA _Napier_
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA _The "Times" Correspondent
AFRICAN HOSPITALITY _Mungo Park_
ACROSS THE DESERT OF NUBIA _Bruce's Travels_
A SHIPWRECK ON THE ARABIAN COAST _W.G. Palgrave_
AN ARABIAN TOWN _W.G. Palgrave_
THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL _Sir Thomas Malory_
VISIT TO SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY'S COUNTRY SEAT _Addison_
THE DEAD ASS _Sterne_
_Poetry_.
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH _H.W. Longfellow_
MEN OF ENGLAND _Campbell_
A BALLAD _Goldsmith_
MARTYRS _Cowper_
A PSALM OF LIFE _H.W. Longfellow_
THE ANT AND THE CATERPILLAR _Cunningham_
REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE _Couper_
THE INCHCAPE BELL _Southey_
BATTLE OF THE BALME _Campbell_
LOCHINVAR _Scott_
THE CHAMELEON _Merrick_
A WISH _Pope_
A SEA SONG _Cunningham_
ON THE LOSS OF THE 'ROYAL GEORGE' _Cowper_
RULE BRITANNIA _Thomson_
WATERLOO _Byron_
IVRY _Macaulay_
ANCIENT GREECE _Byron_
THE TEMPLE OF FAME _Pope_
A HAPPY LIFE _Sir Henry Wotton_
MAN'S SERVANTS _George Herbert_
VIRTUE _George Herbert_
DEATH THE CONQUEROR _James Shirley_
THE PASSIONS _Collins_
THE VISION OF BELSHAZZAR _Byron_
YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND _Campbell_
A SHIPWRECK _Byron_
THE HAPPY WARRIOR _Wordsworth_
LIBERTY _Cowper_
THE TROSACHS _Scott_
LOCHIEL'S WARNING _Campbell_
REST FROM BATTLE _Pope_
THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _Scott_
THE SAXON AND THE GAEL _(continued)_ _Scott_
THE WINTER EVENING _Cowper_
MAZEPPA _Byron_
HYMN TO DIANA _Ben Jonson_
L'ALLEGRO _Milton_
THE VILLAGE _Goldsmith_
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE _Shakespeare_
IL PENSEROSO _Milton_
COURTESY _Spenser_
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