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The Knight; The Squire; The Parson; The Scholar and the

Daisy; Truth shall Deliver Thee.

SPENSER,

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The Passing of the Seasons and the Months; The Tale of

the Oake and the Briar.

SHAKESPEARE,

Mark Antony's Oration; Wolsey's Farewell; The Character
of Wolsey; Human Life; Mercy; Nature's Thrift;
Adversity.

TAYLOR,

Anger; Insignificance of Man; Prayer.

MILTON,

Freedom of the Press; A Nation in its Strength; Light;
Lycidas; When the Assault was intended to the City;
On his Blindness; To Cyriac Skinner.

The Character of the Earl of Shaftesbury; Character of the
Duke of Buckingham; Alexander's Feast.

DEFOE,

Crusoe and the Footprint; A Skirmish of Dragoons.

SWIFT,

The Spider and the Bee; The Temple of Fame.

ADDISON,

The Vision of Mirza; Pedantry.

POPE,

From the "Essay on Man"; from the "Satires."

From The Traveller"; The Deserted Village; from the "Retaliation"; City Night Piece.

166

JOHNSON,

Cowley and his Contemporaries; Letter to the Earl of
Chesterfield; The Vanity of Human Wishes.

Criticism of Government a Duty; The Use and Abuse of
Party; American Taxation; The Spirit of Liberty in the
American Colonies.

GIBBON,

From "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire."

203

CRABBE,

Isaac Ashford, a Noble Peasant.

BURNS,

The Cotter's Saturday Night; Man was Made to Mourn; To a
Mountain Daisy; A Man's a Man for a' that; Devotion.

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209

COWPER,
Slavery; My Mother's Picture;

223

To Mary.

231

SCOTT,

Old Mortality; Death of the Master of Ravenswood; The
Battle of Flodden Field.

262

WORDSWORTH,

Ode on the Intimations of Immortality; The Fountain: a
Conversation; Upon Westminster Bridge; The World is
Too Much with us; To Milton; Tintern Abbey.

COLERIDGE,

Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni.

280

BYRON,

281

Stanzas for Music; My Native Land, Good-night; Rome;
The Ocean; Greece; From the Drama of "Manfred."

SHELLEY,

302

To a Skylark; The Cloud.

KEATS,

310

To Autumn; On first looking into Chapman's Homer; On the
Grasshopper and Cricket.

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