Preface

General Introduction - The English Essay and

English Prose Style :

1. Historical Review

II. Style, or the Artistic Element in Prose .

III. The Possibilities of Prose

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II. SWIFT: the Greatest English Satirist

A Tale of a Tub.

The Bookseller's Dedication to the Right

Honourable John Lord Somers

The Epistle Dedicatory to His Royal

Highness Prince Posterity.

Preface

The Three Brothers and their Coats

[Sect. II]

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III. ADDISON: First of the Humorists

Sir Roger De Coverley in the Country

Sir Roger at Home.

Sir Roger and Will Wimble .

Sir Roger at Church

The Man of the Town

The Fan Exercise

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IV. LAMB: Greatest of the Humorists

Letter to Coleridge

A Dissertation upon Roast Pig

Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist

Poor Relations

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V. DE QUINCEY : Inventor of Modern “ Im-

passioned Prose"

The English Mail Coach

Sect. I – The Glory of Motion

Going down with Victory

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).

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VI. CARLYLE: the Latter-Day Prophet

Characteristics

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VII. EMERSON : the Lecturer

Self-Reliance

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VIII. MACAULAY : the Rhetorician

The Puritans (Essay on Milton)

Boswell's “Life of Johnson "

The Perfect Historian (Essay on His-

tory).

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IX. RUSKIN : the Impassioned Critic .

Sea-Painting (Modern Painters, Vol. I.)

The Virtues of Architecture (Stones of

Venice, Vol. II.). .

The Crown of Wild Olive (Introduction

or Preface).

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X. MATTHEW ARNOLD: the Intellectual Critic 379

Sweetness and Light (Culture and Anarchy) 382