The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
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In books we find the dead as it were living: in books we foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are methodized; the rights of peace proceed from books.
But he has lost all but Greece; and that land he holds all only.
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- RICHARD DE BURYSample
- IN PRAISE OF BOOKS[1]
- SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE
- I. THE ROUTE FROM ENGLAND TO CONSTANTINOPLE[5]
- II AT THE COURT OF THE GREAT CHAN[13]
- FOOTNOTES:
- JOHN WYCLIF
- THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST[15]
- GEOFFREY CHAUCER
- OF ACQUIRING AND USING RICHES[16]
- FOOTNOTES:
- WILLIAM CAXTON
- OF TRUE NOBILITY AND CHIVALRY[19]
- SIR THOMAS MALORY
- OF THE FINDING OF A SWORD FOR ARTHUR[20]
- SIR THOMAS MORE
- LIFE IN UTOPIA[21]
- FOOTNOTES:
- JOHN KNOX
- AN INTERVIEW WITH MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS[22]
- FOOTNOTES:
- ROGER ASCHAM
- OF GENTLE METHODS IN TEACHING[23]
- JOHN FOXE
- THE DEATH OF ANNE BOLEYN[24]
- FOOTNOTES:
- SIR WALTER RALEIGH
- THE MUTABILITY OF HUMAN AFFAIRS[26]
- FRANCIS BACON
- I OF TRAVEL[27]
- II OF RICHES
- III OF YOUTH AND AGE
- IV OF REVENGE
- V OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE
- VI OF ENVY
- VII OF GOODNESS AND GOODNESS OF NATURE
- VIII OF STUDIES
- IX OF REGIMENT OF HEALTH
- FOOTNOTES:
- SHAKESPEARE
- I BRUTUS TO HIS COUNTRYMEN[54]
- II SHYLOCK IN DEFENSE OF HIS RACE[55]
- III HAMLET TO THE PLAYERS[56]
- BEN JONSON
- OF SHAKESPEARE AND OTHER WITS[57]
- IZAAK WALTON
- I THE ANTIQUITY OF ANGLING[58]
- II OF THE TROUT[61]
- III THE DEATH OF GEORGE HERBERT[63]
- FOOTNOTES:
- I THE BUCENTAUR CEREMONY IN VENICE[64]
- II THE CITY OF ROME IN 1621[66]
- FOOTNOTES:
- SIR THOMAS BROWNE
- I OF CHARITY IN JUDGMENTS[70]
- II NOTHING STRICTLY IMMORTAL[71]
- FOOTNOTES:
- JOHN MILTON
- I ON HIS OWN LITERARY AMBITION[75]
- II A COMPLETE EDUCATION DEFINED[79]
- III ON READING IN HIS YOUTH[80]
- IV IN DEFENSE OF BOOKS[81]
- V A NOBLE AND PUISSANT NATION[82]
- VI OF FUGITIVE AND CLOISTERED VIRTUE[83]
- FOOTNOTES:
- LORD CLARENDON
- OF CHARLES I[85]
- THOMAS FULLER
- QUALITIES OF THE GOOD SCHOOLMASTER[87]
- FOOTNOTES:
- JEREMY TAYLOR
- THE BENEFITS OF ADVERSITY[89]
- ABRAHAM COWLEY
- I OF OBSCURITY[90]
- II OF PROCRASTINATION[94]
- FOOTNOTES:
- GEORGE FOX
- AN INTERVIEW WITH OLIVER CROMWELL[95]
- FOOTNOTES:
- JOHN BUNYAN
- I A DREAM OF THE CELESTIAL CITY[97]
- II THE DEATH OF VALIANT-FOR-TRUTH AND OF STAND-FAST[98]
- III ANCIENT VANITY FAIR[99]
- JOHN DRYDEN
- OF ELIZABETHAN DRAMATISTS[100]
- SAMUEL PEPYS
- I OF VARIOUS DOINGS OF MR. AND MRS. PEPYS[102]
- II ENGLAND WITHOUT CROMWELL[103]
- GILBERT BURNET
- CHARLES II[105]
- FOOTNOTES:
- DANIEL DEFOE
- I THE SHIPWRECK OF CRUSOE[107]
- II THE RESCUE OF MAN FRIDAY[108]
- III IN THE TIME OF THE GREAT PLAGUE[109]
- JONATHAN SWIFT
- I ON PRETENSE IN PHILOSOPHERS[110]
- II ON THE HOSPITALITY OF THE VULGAR[111]
- III THE ART OF LYING IN POLITICS[112]
- IV A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK[113]
- V GULLIVER AMONG THE GIANTS[114]
- FOOTNOTES:
- JOSEPH ADDISON
- I IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY[115]
- II WILL HONEYCOMB AND HIS MARRIAGE[116]
- III PRIDE OF BIRTH[117]
- IV SIR ROGER AND HIS HOME[118]