A Book of English Prose

A Book of English Prose

A Book of English Prose Part I Arranged for Preparatory and Elementary Schools B Y PERCY LUBBOCK, M.A. KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Cambridge : at the University Press I9 I 3

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PREFATORY NOTE nphe Editor desires to record his thanks to Messrs Smith, Elder & Co. and to Messrs Chatto & Windus for allowing him to include in this volume, the former, a passage from Jefferies' Amateur Poacher, the latter, one from R L. Stevenson's Will d the Mill. Mrs Eden has kindly permitted the use of an extract from A Great Emergency, by her sister, Mrs Ewing. October 1913 P. L.

CONTENTS PAGE The Passing of Arthur. Sir Thomas Malory I Death of Robert Bruce. Sir J. Bourchier, Lord Berners 5 The Schoolmaster..... Roger Ascham 8 Drake at Nombre de Dios. Sir Francis Drake 9 Voyage up the River Orinoco Sir Walter Ralegh 12 Death of Richard III. John Speed i5 The Fisherman and the Milk-maid Izaak Walton 19 The Fire of London John Evelyn 21 Christian and Hopeful. John Bunyan 26 A Journal of the Plague Year Daniel Defoe 32 Capture of the Fleet of Blefuscu.. Jonathan Swift 36 Alexander Selkirk.... 39 The Vision of Mirza. Joseph Addison 44 Flatus 47 A Letter.... Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 51 The Happy Valley..... Samuel Johnson 54 The Vicar of Wakefield Oliver Goldsmith 58 The Smugglers.... Sir Walter Scott 62 Death of Nelson.... 69 Great-grandmother Field Charles Lamb 73 Rip Van Winkle.... Washington Lrving 76

viii CONTENTS Tom Cordery the Rat-catcher. Mary Russell Mitford Highwaymen in the 17th century.. Lord Macaulay The Gypsies Rebecca Sharp arrives at Sir Pitt Crawley's Mr Squeers.... George Borrow W. M. Thackeray Charles Dickens A Channel Crossing Ascent of Saddle-back Mountain. Charlotte Bronte. H. D. Thoreau North and South.... John Ruskin The Entrance to Fairyland A Voyage in a Canal-barge The Gun in the Garret Will o' the Mill George Macdonald Juliana Horatia Ewing Richard Jefferies Robert Louis Stevenson PAGE 82 86 89 94 100 106 112 116 119 123 128 132 Notes 137