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A BOOK Of SelecTIONS FROM ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PROSE AND POETRY, ILLUSTRATING THE NATIONAL IDEALS OF FREEDOM, FAITH, AND CONDUCT
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
COPYRIGHT, 1919
BY SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE RENAISSANCE
I. THE EXPANSION OF THE INDIVIDUAL-
PAGE
DOCTOR FAUSTUS (Abridged), Christopher Marlowe..
TAMBURLAINE (Selection), Christopher Marlowe....
"All Knowledge to Be My PROVINCE," Francis Bacon.
A MORE DIVINE PERFECTION, Richard Hooker.....
SELF DISCIPLINE: THE STORY OF GUYON, Edmund Spenser
THE GOSPEL OF BEAUTY, Edmund Spenser.
II. A GREATER BRITAIN-
THE CHARACTER OF ELIZABETH, John Richard Green....
THE MENACE OF SPAIN, John Richard Green...
THE SPIRIT OF ENGLAND, William Shakespeare..
"This England” (Richard II).
Unity Against the Foe (King John).
England at War (Henry V)......
BALLAD OF AGINCOURT, Michael Drayton.
THE DEEDS OF ELIZABETHAN SEAMEN, Richard Hakluyt.
TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE, Michael Drayton.
THE VICTORY OF ENGLAND, Sir Walter Raleigh..
III. TRAINING FOR EMPIRE—
1
12
13
14
15
23
25
28
31
32
34
36
37
THE EDUCATION OF MEN WHO ARE TO RULE, Sir Thomas Elyot..
"THE RANK IS BUT THE GUINEA'S STAMP," Sir Thomas Elyot..
OF VIRTUOUS AND GENTLE DISCIPLINE, Edmund Spenser.
"THE BRAVE COURTIER," Edmund Spenser.
THE IMAGINARY COMMONWEALTH OF UTOPIA, Sir Thomas More.....
Thomas More to Peter Giles, of Antwerp..
"ONE SOVEREIGN GOVERNOR," Sir Thomas Elyot.
THE GARDEN OF THE COMMONWEALTH, Sir Thomas Elyot.......
Of Divine Right (Richard II).............
The Commonwealth of the Bees (Henry V).
A Discourse upon International Relations, Happiness, and Reformers......
Labor in Utopia....
72
76
"And the Pursuit of Happiness".
79
The Welfare of all the People....
82
84
85
SOME ELIZABETHAN POLITICAL IDEAS IN SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMAS.
Our Sea-Walled Garden (Richard II)..
......
87
90
91
93
94
98
99
TWO COUNSELS ON GOVERNMENT, Francis Bacon.
101
102
Of "Degree" (Troilus and Cressida).
OF GOVERNMENT, Richard Hooker....
Maintaining Things That Are Established.
Of Law in Nature....
Of the Sources of Government.
Of the Law of Nations...
"Her Voice the Harmony of the World".
Of Empire.....
Of Innovations..
V. THE POET'S COMMENT-
SONNETS, William Shakespeare..
MY MIND TO ME A Kingdom Is, Sir Edward Dyer.
THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE, Sir Henry Wotton...
DEATH, John Donne...
A PINDARIC ODE, Ben Jonson..
HIS PILGRIMAGE, Sir Walter Raleigh.
THE LAST PAGES OF "THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD," Sir Walter Raleigh,.
II. FAITH AND FREEDOM: JOHN MILTON—
1. THE MAKER OF AN HEROIC POEM
Himself a True Poem (An Apology, and A Letter).
L'Allegro.....
On the New Forcers of Conscience..
On the Lord General Fairfax..
To the Lord General Cromwell..
6. THE INTERNATIONAL MIND
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont...
The Nation's Protest (Piedmont).
England and America (Of Reformation in England)
The Brotherhood of Man (Tenure of Kings).............
III. THE BEGINNINGS OF FREE GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA—
THE PILGRIMS AND THEIR COMPACT, William Bradford..
THE FIRST PROMOTION OF LEARNING, Edward Johnson..
THE MAY-POLE OF MERRY MOUNT, Nathaniel Hawthorne..
IV. COMMONWEALTH AND RESTORATION-
THE TRIUMPHS OF THE COMMONWEALTH, Oliver Cromwell..
PEACE HATH ITS VICTORIES, Oliver Cromwell...
AN APPEAL FOR UNITY, Oliver Cromwell...
THE RESTORATION, Samuel Pepys.....
THE PURITAN, Samuel Butler..
OF COMMONWEALTH (Leviathan), Thomas Hobbes.