The Threshold of English ProseHenry Arthur Treble CUP Archive, 1930 - 240 pages |
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Contents
THE ESSAY | 1 |
A Description of a Club of Authors Oliver Goldsmith | 13 |
The Superannuated Man Charles Lamb | 24 |
At Madame Tussauds J B Priestley | 34 |
THE LETTER | 40 |
To William Temple Dorothy Osborne | 48 |
To Richard West Thomas Gray | 55 |
To James Macpherson Samuel Johnson | 63 |
TRAVEL | 107 |
Journeying in Spain George Borrow | 118 |
Turkish Travelling A W Kinglake | 134 |
NATURE | 150 |
A Remarkable Frost Gilbert White | 157 |
An Amazing Summer Gilbert White page | 161 |
HISTORY | 171 |
PUBLIC SPEECHES | 197 |
To David Garrick James Boswell page | 64 |
BIOGRAPHY | 72 |
Miltons Juvenile Poems Samuel Johnson | 78 |
First Meeting with Dr Johnson James Boswell | 86 |
Nelsons Boyhood and Early Youth Robert Southey | 94 |
The Angel of Death John Bright | 205 |
The Eternal Boy Stanley Baldwin | 211 |
A NOTE ON THE NOVEL | 218 |
EXERCISES | 231 |
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