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English Prose THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE Edited by JOHN GROSS Oxford New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 Contents Introduction • xxxv THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE SIR THOMAS MALORY 3 Morte Darthur WILLIAM CAXTON 6 The Game and Play of the Chess • Proem to The Canterbury Tales JOHN BOURCHIER, LORD BERNERS 7 Froissart's Chronicles JOHN FISHER, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER 9 The Ways to Perfect Religion SIR THOMAS MORE 10 Utopia • The History of King Richard III THOMAS CRANMER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 13 An Homily of Good Works SIR THOMAS ELYOT 14 The Book named the Governor HUGH LATIMER l6 'The Sermon of the Plough' WILLIAM TYNDALE VJ Translation of the Pentateuch: Prologue to Leviticus THE ENGLISH BIBLE: I l8 Genesis 3:1-19 THE ENGLISH BIBLE: II 19 i Corinthians 13: 4-13 WILLIAM ROPER 21 The Life of Sir Thomas More GEORGE CAVENDISH 21 Thomas Wolsey, late Cardinal, his Life and Death SIMON FISH 22 A Supplication for the Beggars VI CONTENTS THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER 23 The First Prayer Book of Edward VI ROGER ASCHAM 24 Toxophilus • The Schoolmaster RAPHAEL HOLINSHED TJ Chronicles SIR THOMAS CHALONER 28 Erasmus' The Praise of Folly JOHN STOW 28 A Survey of London QUEEN ELIZABETH I 30 Speech to the Troops at Tilbury SIR THOMAS NORTH 31 Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans ROBERT PARSONS 34 The Christian Directory RICHARD KNOLLES 34 The General History of the Turks EDMUND SPENSER 35 A View of the Present State of Ireland SIR WALTER RALEIGH 36 The Fight about the Isles of Azores • The Discovery of Guiana • The History of the World RICHARD HAKLUYT 39 Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffics and Discoveries JOHN FLORIO 39 The Essays of Michael Lord of Montaigne JOHN LYLY 40 Euphues and His England STEPHEN GOSSON 41 The School of Abuse SIR PHILIP SIDNEY 42 Arcadia • The Defence of Poesy RICHARD HOOKER , 45 Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE 47 The Life of Sir Philip Sidney CONTENTS Vll NICHOLAS BRETON 48 Fantasticks ROBERT GREENE 49 A Quip for an Upstart Courtier • Greene's Groats-worth of Wit THOMAS LODGE 50 Rosalynde SIR RANULPH CREWE 51 Oxford peerage case THOMAS HARIOT 51 The New-found Land of Virginia FRANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS 52 'The Student's Prayer' • The Advancement of Learning • 'Of Truth' • 'Of Parents and Children' • New Atlantis SAMUEL DANIEL 55 A Defence of Rhyme WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 56 A Midsummer Night's Dream • 1 Henry IV • Henry V • As You Like It • Hamlet • All's Well That Ends Well • King Lear • Coriolanus THOMAS CAMPION 60 Observations in the Art of English Poesy THOMAS NASHE 6l Pierce Penniless • The Terrors of the Night • Christ's Tears over Jerusalem • The Unfortunate Traveller • Nashe's Lenten Stuff THOMAS DEKKER 64 The Seven Deadly Sins of London • The Gull's Hornbook THE ENGLISH BIBLE: III 65 Genesis 32: 22-30 • 2 Samuel 1: 23-7 • Job 39:19-25 • Proverbs 7: 6-18 • Ecclesiastes 11: 9-10,12:1-7 • Song of Solomon 8: 6-7 • Isaiah 40:1-8 • Isaiah 52: 7-8 • Matthew 6: 25-9 • Luke 2: 25-32 • Acts 17: 22-34 JOHN DONNE 70 Sermons • Devotions upon Emergent Occasions BEN JONSON 74 Timber, or Discoveries SAMUEL PURCHAS 76 Purchas His Pilgrimage ROBERT BURTON 76 The Anatomy of Melancholy Vlll CONTENTS THOMAS CORYATE 80 Coryats Crudities JOHN SMITH 8l The General History of Virginia SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 82 Characters JOHN SELDEN 83 Table-Talk WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN 84 The Cypress Grove THOMAS HOBBES 84 Human Nature • Leviathan JOHN WINTHROP 87 'A Model of Christian Charity' WILLIAM BRADFORD 88 Of Plymouth Plantation IZAAK WALTON 90 The Life of Dr John Donne • The Compleat Angler • The Life of Mr George Herbert JOHN EARLE 93 Microcosmography OWEN FELLTHAM 94 Resolves • A Brief Character of the Low Countries SIR THOMAS BROWNE 96 Religio Medici • Pseudodoxia Epidemica • Urn-Burial • The Garden of Cyrus • Christian Morals BULSTRODE WHITELOCKE 100 Journal of the Swedish Embassy JOHN MILTON 102 Of Reformation in England • Animadversions upon the Remonstrant's Defence • The Reason of Church Government • Areopagitica • The History of Britain • The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth THOMAS FULLER ~ ,, 107 The Church History of Britain • The Worthies of England EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON 110 The Life of Edward, Earl of Clarendon • History of the Rebellion CONTENTS IX GERRARD WINSTANLEY 113 The True Levellers' Standard Advanced ANNE BRADSTREET 114 Meditations Divine and Moral JEREMY TAYLOR 115 Holy Living • Holy Dying • sermons • letter • Ductor Dubitantium • Righteousness Evangelical'- SIR CHRISTOPHER GUISE Il8 Memoirs of the Family of Guise ABRAHAM COWLEY 119 'The Dangers of an Honest Man in Much Company' JOHN EVELYN 119 Sylva • Diary LUCY HUTCHINSON 121 Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson JOHN TILLOTSON, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 122 Sermons GEORGE FOX 124 Journal MARGARET CAVENDISH, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE 124 A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life JOHN AUBREY 126 Brief Lives ROBERT BOYLE 130 The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy • manuscript notes • A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notions of Nature DOROTHY OSBORNE 131 Letters JOHN BUNYAN 133 Grace Abounding • The Pilgrim's Progress • The Holy War • The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE 137 'Of Poetry' JOHN DRYDEN 138 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy • The Original and Progress of Satire • Preface to the Fables JOHN LOCKE 140 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding • Some Thoughts Concerning Education • Of the Conduct of the Understanding X CONTENTS SAMUEL PEPYS 143 Diary GEORGE SAVILE, MARQUESS OF HALIFAX 147 The Character of a Trimmer • A Character of Charles the Second • A Rough Draft of a New Model at Sea • Some Cautions Offered ROBERT SOUTH , 150 Sermons THOMAS BURNET 151 A Sacred Theory of the Earth THOMAS SPRAT, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER 152 The History of the Royal Society THOMAS TRAHERNE 153 Centuries of Meditation APHRA BEHN 155 Preface to The Dutch Lover • The Fair Jilt • Oroonoko WILLIAM PENN 157 No Cross, No Crown ROGER NORTH 157 Autobiography DANIEL DEFOE I58 Robinson Crusoe • Serious Reflections During the Life of Robinson Crusoe • A Journal of the Plague Year • Moll Flanders • A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain COTTON MATHER 163 Magnalia Christi Americana • Manuductio ad Ministerium MARY ASTELL 164 Some Reflections upon Marriage SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT 165 A Journey from Boston to New York JONATHAN SWIFT 166 A Tale of a Tub • An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity • A Short Character of His Excellency, Thomas Earl ofWharton • Journal to Stella • from The Examiner • Gulliver's Travels • A Modest Proposal • Polite Conversation WILLIAM CONGREVE - 173 Incognita BERNARD MANDEVILLE 174 The Fable of the Bees CONTENTS XI ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, EARL OF SHAFTESBURY 175 Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions and Times COLLEY CIBBER 175 An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber SIR RICHARD STEELE 177 from The Tatler and The Guardian JOSEPH ADDISON 178 from The Tatler and The Spectator WILLIAM BYRD l8l The Secret Diary of William Byrd ofWestover HENRY ST JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE l82 The Idea of a Patriot King GEORGE BERKELEY, BISHOP OF CLOYNE 183 The Principles of Human Knowledge • Siris WILLIAM LAW 185 A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ALEXANDER POPE 187 Letter • A Letter to a Noble Lord LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU l88 Letters SAMUEL RICHARDSON 191 Clarissa JOSEPH BUTLER, BISHOP OF DURHAM 195 Fifteen Sermons PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD 196 Letters to his son JOHN, LORD HERVEY I98 Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second JOHN WESLEY 199 Journal JONATHAN EDWARDS 202 A Divine and Supernatural Light • Personal Narrative • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God WILLIAM MURRAY, EARL OF MANSFIELD 203 Speech in the House of Lords BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 204 Autobiography • letters • 'Proposed New Version of the Bible' • Speech at the Constitutional Convention Xll CONTENTS HENRY FIELDING 208 Joseph Andrews • Jonathan Wild • Tom Jones • The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon SAMUEL JOHNSON 213 The Life of Richard Savage • from The'Rambler • letters • A Dictionary of the English Language • review of A Free Enquiry into the Nature and. Origins of Evil. • from The Idler • Proceedings of the Committee for Clothing French Prisoners of War • Rasselas • Preface to Shakespeare • A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland • Lives of the Poets • Diary DAVID HUME 225 'On the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature' • 'The Epicurean' • An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding • The History of Great Britain • 'On the Immortality of the Soul' • 'The Natural History of Religion' • 'Of the Standard of Taste' • 'My Own Life' LAURENCE STERNE 23I Tristram Shandy • A Sentimental Journey THOMAS GRAY 235 Letters HORACE WALPOLE 236 Letters GILBERT WHITE 239 The Natural History ofSelborne JOHN WOOLMAN 242 Journal TOBIAS SMOLLETT 243 Roderick Random • Humphry Clinker WILLIAM ROBERTSON 247 The History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS 248 Discourses on Art ADAM SMITH 25O The Wealth of Nations SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE 252 Commentaries on the Laws of England OLIVER GOLDSMITH 253 'On the Use of Language' • The Citizen of the World • The Life of Richard Nash • The Vicar of Wakefield • An History of the Earth CONTENTS Xlll EDMUND BURKE 257 Speech on American Taxation • Speech on Conciliation with America • Speech on the East India Bill • Reflections on the Revolution in France • A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe • Letters on a Regicide Peace • A Letter to a Noble Lord JAMES BRUCE 264 Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile WILLIAM COWPER 264 Letters HECTOR ST JEAN
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