The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III (ePub)

Excerpts from Boswell's "Life of Johnson" A Poet Defined, from the Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" by Wordsworth The Arrival of the Master of Ravenswood, from "The Bride of Lammermoor" by Scott The Death of Meg Merriles, from "Guy Mannering" by Scott A Vision of Rob Roy, from "Rob Roy" by Scott Queen Elizabeth and Amy Robsart at Kenilworth, from "Kenilworth" by Scott The Illness and Death of Lady Scott, from Scott's "Journal" Does Fortune Favor Fools?, from "A Sailor's Fortune" by Coleridge The Destiny of the United States, from the "Table Talk" by Coleridge Nelson's Death at Trafalgar, from the "Life of Nelson" by Southey The Death of Hofer, by Landor Napoleon and Pericles, by Landor Dream Children-A Reverie; Poor Relations; The Origin of Roast Pig; That We Should Rise with the Lark, from the "Essays of Elia" by Lamb Hamlet, from the "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" by Hazlitt Dreams of an Opium-Eater, from the "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" by de Quincey Joan of Arc, from the "Biographical and Historical Essays" by de Quincey Charles Lamb, from the "Literary Reminiscences" by de Quincey Of His Mother's Treatment of Him, letter by Lord Byron To His Wife after the Separation, letter by Lord Byron To Sir Walter Scott, letter by Lord Byron Of Art and Nature as Poetical Subjects, from the "Reply to Bowles" by Lord Byron In Defense of Poetry, by Shelley The Baths of Caracalla, from letter by Shelley The ruins of Pompeii, from letter by Shelley The Mutilation of the Hermæ; If Alexander Had Lived, from the "History of Greece" by Grote Charlotte Corday, from the "History of the French Revolution" by Carlyle The Blessedness of Work, from "Past and Present" by Carlyle Cromwell, from "Heroes and Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History" by Carlyle In Praise of Those Who Toil, from "Sartor Resartus" by Carlyle The Certainty of Justice, from "Past and Present" by Carlyle The Greatness of Scott, from essay by Carlyle Boswell and His Book, from essay by Carlyle Might