The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
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- PREFACE.Sample
- SHORT EXTRACTS.
- INDEX OF AUTHORS.
- INTRODUCTORY.
- From the First Book of Kings. Translated 1611—Revised 1885.
- From Isaiah. Translated 1611—Revised 1885.
- William Shakespeare.—1564-1616.
- Lord Bacon.—1561-1626. From Essays.
- Robert Herrick.—1594-1674.
- Jeremy Taylor.—1613-1667. From Holy Living.
- Richard Lovelace.—1618-1658.
- Izaak Walton.—1593-1683. From The Complete Angler.
- (1629). John Milton.—1608-1674.
- THE HYMN.
- Lord Clarendon.—1608-1674. From History of the Rebellion.
- John Dryden.—1631-1700.
- Dryden.
- Dryden. From Religio Laici.
- Richard Steele.—1672-1729. From The Tatler, June 10, 1710.
- Joseph Addison.—1672-1719. From The Spectator, August 21, 1712.
- Jonathan Swift.—1667-1745. From The Tatler, March 6, 1711.
- Alexander Pope.—1688-1744.
- FOOTNOTES:
- James Thomson.—1700-1748.
- David Hume.—1711-1776. From History of England.
- A Pindaric Ode.[D] Thomas Gray.—1716-1771.
- HOUSE OF LORDS—November 18th, 1777. Lord Chatham.—1708-1778.
- Oliver Goldsmith.—1728-1774.
- James Boswell.—1740-1795. From Life of Samuel Johnson, ll. d.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Edward Gibbon.—1737-1794. From The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
- Edmund Burke.—1729-1797.
- FOOTNOTES:
- William Cowper.—1731-1800. From letters to the Rev. John Newton.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan.—1751-1816.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Robert Burns.—1759-1796.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Lady Nairn.—1766-1845.
- From The Talisman. Sir Walter Scott.—1771-1832.
- FOOTNOTES:
- William Wordsworth.—1770-1850.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge.—1772-1834.
- Coleridge.
- XXXIV. THE WELL OF ST. KEYNE.
- Lord Byron.—1788-1824.
- Moore.
- Moore.
- Leigh Hunt.—1784-1859.
- Leigh Hunt.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley.—1792-1822.
- John Keats.—1795-1821.
- Keats.
- Thomas De Quincey.—1785-1859. From The Cæsars.
- Dr. Arnold.—1795-1842. A Lecture delivered in Rugby Chapel.
- Thomas Hood.—1799-1845.
- Thomas Hood.
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton.—1796-1865. From Traits of American Humor.
- Samuel Lover.—1797-1868.
- Winthrop Mackworth Praed.—1802-1839.
- A LAY MADE ABOUT THE YEAR OF THE CITY CCCLX. Lord Macaulay.—1800-1859.
- Edgar Allan Poe.—1809-1849.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne.—1804-1864. From "Twice-Told Tales."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning.—1809-1861.
- Mrs. Browning.
- William Cullen Bryant.—1794-1878.
- From Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.—1803-1882.
- Charles James Lever.—1806-1872. From Charles O'Malley.
- Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton.—1805-1873. Translated from the German of Schiller.
- Cardinal Newman.—1801- From Callista.
- William Makepeace Thackeray.—1811-1863.
- Thackeray.
- FOOTNOTES:
- (December, 1697.) William Edmondstoune Aytoun.—1813-1865.
- Earl of Beaconsfield.—1805-1881. From The Young Duke.
- Charles Dickens.—1812-1870. From The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
- FOOTNOTES:
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.—1807-1882.
- Charles Darwin—1809-1882. From The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of Worms.
- Charles Heavysege.—1816-1876.
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.—1815-1880.
- Charles Kingsley.—1819-1875.
- George Eliot.—1820-1880.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti.—1828-1882.
- John Greenleaf Whittier.—1807-
- Oliver Wendell Holmes.—1809- "Man wants but little here below."
- The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone.—1809- From Kin Beyond Sea.
- Lord Tennyson.—1809-
- Lord Tennyson.
- A BALLAD OF THE FLEET, 1591. Lord Tennyson.
- Robert Browning.—1812-
- President Wilson.—1816-
- President Wilson.
- Benjamin Jowett.—1817- From The Dialogues of Plato.
- James Anthony Froude.—1818- From Cæsar.
- John Ruskin—1819- From Sesame and Lilies.
- James Russell Lowell.—1819- From My Garden Acquaintance.
- Frederick Locker.—1821-
- November, 1857. Matthew Arnold.—1822-
- Charles Sangster.—1822-
- Goldwin Smith.—1823- From Cowper.
- Thomas Henry Huxley.—1825- From Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews.
- Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.—1826-
- Christina Georgina Rossetti.—1830-
- Edmund Clarence Stedman.—1833-
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich.—1836-
- John Reade.—1837-
- John Reade.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne.—1837-
- Austin Dobson.—1840-
- Austin Dobson.
- Charles Mair.—1840-
- FOOTNOTES:
- Edmund William Gosse.—1849-
- A. Mary F. Robinson.—1856-
- A. Mary F. Robinson.
- Charles G. D. Roberts.—1859-
- (Off Long Point Island, Lake Erie, November 24th, 1854.) Amanda T. Jones.