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II. Style, or the Artistic Element in Prose.
III. The Possibilities of Prose
The Bookseller's Dedication to the Right
Honourable John Lord Somers
The Epistle Dedicatory to His Royal
Highness Prince Posterity.
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III. ADDISON: First of the Humorists
Sir Roger De Coverley in the Country
Sir Roger at Home
IV. LAMB: Greatest of the Humorists
Letter to Coleridge
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist
V. DE QUINCEY: Inventor of Modern "Im-
passioned Prose "
The English Mail Coach
Sect. I- The Glory of Motion
Going down with Victory
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Sect. II-The Vision of Sudden Death
Sect. III- Dream-Fugue: Founded
on the Preceding Theme of Sudden
Death.
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
(Suspiria de Profundis).
VI. CARLYLE: the Latter-Day Prophet
Characteristics
VIII. MACAULAY: the Rhetorician
The Puritans (Essay on Milton)
Boswell's "Life of Johnson".
The Perfect Historian (Essay on His-
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284
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347
360
Sea-Painting (Modern Painters, Vol. I.)
The Virtues of Architecture (Stones of
Venice, Vol. II.). .
The Crown of Wild Olive (Introduction
or Preface).
X. MATTHEW ARNOLD: the Intellectual Critic 379
Sweetness and Light (Culture and Anarchy) 382