CHOICE SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE; SELECTED FROM THE CHIEF ENGLISH WRITERS, AND ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. BY THOMAS B. SHAW, A. M., AND WILLIAM SMITH, LL. D. SHELDON ADAPTED TO THE USE OF AMERICAN STUDENTS, BY BENJAMIN N. MARTIN, D.D., L. H.D., PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF THE NEW YORK: AND COMPANY, 498 AND 500 BROADWAY. KE5458 HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2+337 LIBRARY Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern COLLEGE AND SCHOOL TEXT BOOKS. THE LATEST EDITIONS OF BULLIONS'S SERIES ARE $.50 Sentences).. 1.00 EXERCISES IN ANALYSIS, PARSING AND COMPOSITION (new), .50 . 1.00 . 1.50 . 1.50 BULLIONS AND KENDRICK'S GREEK GRAMMAR, . 1.00 2.00 References), BAIRD'S CLASSICAL MANUAL, STODDARD'S MATHEMATICAL SERIES. · STODDARD'S PRIMARY PICTORIAL ARITHMETIC (illustrated), . KEETELS' NEW METHOD OF LEARNING FRENCH,. A SHORT AND FULL ARITHMETICAL COURSE is obtained, with economy HISTORIES. LOSSING'S 1.00 .90 4.50 . 1.75* .75 1.75 . 1.75 .30 .25 .50 .50 1.00 .80 1.25* . 1.50 . 1.75* HERSCHEL'S OUTLINES OF ASTRONOMY, 1.25 1.25 1.25 1.50 PALMER'S BOOK-KEEPING, $1.00*; Blank Journal, .50*; Blank Ledger, .50* .50 .90 1.75* 1.75* We furnish to Teachers, for examination, post-paid, a copy of any of the above books, not having a annexed, at half price; those marked with a* we send on receipt of the prices annexed. SHELDON & CO., Publishers, 498 & 500 Broadway, New York. Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, 19 Spring Lane. PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION. THE following extracts from the Chief English Writers were selected by the late Mr. Shaw to accompany his History of English Literature, and are divided into the same number of chapters, that they may be read with the biographical and critical account of each author. They present Specimens of all the chief English Writers from the earliest times to the present century. In making these Selections, two objects have been chiefly kept in view: first, the illustration of the style of each Writer by some of the most striking or characteristic specimens of his works; and, secondly, the choice of such passages as are suitable, either from their language or their matter, to be read in schools or committed to memory. (3) W. S. |