English Language and Literary Criticism Volume 2; English Prose (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1883 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. MISCELLANEOUS. Works not classified elsewhere: Toxophilus, by Roger Ascham--The Schole Master--Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy--Ben Jonson's Timber--Sir Thomas Browne--Religio Medici--Hydriotaphia; or, Urn-Burial--Feltham's Resolves--.Seldell's Table-Talk--Leonarde Coxe--Thomas Wilson--Blair's Lectures--Edmund Burke--Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler--Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne--Goldsmith's Animated Nature--Dr. Johnson's Visit to the Hebrides--Walter Savage Landor--Dr. Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac--Horne Tooke--The Diversions of Turlcy--William Cobbett--Arthur Helps--Friends in Council--Companions of my Solitude--Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table--Reveries of a Bachelor--AVarner's Back-Log Studies--.John Ruskin's Works--Ethics of the Dust--Samuel Smiles--Self-Help--Dictionaries: Bulloknr, Phillips, Bailey, Johnson, Webster, Worcester--Translations--Literary Criticisms: Sidney's Defence of Poesie--Gascoignc on Verse and Rhyme--Webbe's Discourse of English Poetrie--Puttenham's Art of English Poesie--Ben Jonson's Timber--Theatrum Poetarum, by Phillips--Jfihn_Dryden--Essay on Dramatic Poetry--On Satire--Rymer on Tragedy--The Spectator on Paradise Lost--Sir William Temple on the Learning of the Ancients--The Boyle and Bentley Controversy--Swift's Battle of the Books--Warton's History of English Poetry--Johnson's Lives of the Poets--Isaac Disraeli--Matthew Arnold--Miscellaneous Criticisms. Works not 'classified elsewhere.--Good old Roger Ascham, the tutor of Queen Elizabeth and the most accomplished Greek scholar of his time, may be regarded as one of the best writers of English prose in the sixteenth century. His first work, a curious little book entitled Toxophilus, the Schole or PartitUmes of Shooting, was published in 1544. The pro...