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FOR
FRENCH PROSE COMPOSITION:
OR,
SELECTIONS FROM
THE BEST ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS, WITH IDIOMATIC RENDERINGS OF DIFFICULT PASSAGES, NOTES,
AND PRACTICAL HINTS TO TRANSLATORS.
BY
FERDINAND E. A. GASC, M.A.
FRENCH MASTER AT BRIGHTON COLLEGE.
LONDON:
BELL AND DALDY, FLEET STREET.
1858.
303. c. 65.
с
R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.
Destruction of the Alexandrian Library
Valentine and Unnion
The Fox without a Tail
On Modesty
The Art of Pleasing
(James's Fables of Esop) 11
(Lord Chesterfield's Letters)
12
(Lord Chesterfield's Letters) 13
(Lord Chesterfield's Letters) 15
16
17
The Lazy Mind
England and Scotland (Sir W. Scott, Tales of a Grandfather)
The British Empire. . (J. R. MacCulloch, British Empire)
Description of England. (J. R. MacCulloch, British Empire) 19
Mahomet's Miracles
Columbus at Barcelona
On the Employment of Time.
Sir Roger de Coverley
22
(Gibbon's Roman Empire) 20
(Washington Irving's Columbus)
(Wm. Cowper's Letters) 28
(Addison, Spectator)
On some Pleasures in Rural Life.
30
(Wm. Cowper's Letters)
33
37
The Comparison of Watches (Edgeworth's Modern Griselda)
Hearers and Doers. . . (S. Clarence, Not a Minute to Spare) 41
Scene from "The Good-natured Man "
(O. Goldsmith)
45
Another Scene from "The Good-natured Man" (O. Goldsmith) 49
b
Firmness of Alexander Severus.
School-day Anecdotes
(Gibbon's Roman Empire)
Page
53
54
(Defoe) 59
(Sir W. Scott, Autobiography)
Robinson Crusoe in his Island
Gulliver's Way of Living in the Country of Lilliput. (Swift)
A Travelling Incident (Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit)
The Literary Snobs (W. M. Thackeray, The Book of Snobs)
Scene from "The School for Scandal"
Lord Byron to Thomas Moore
62
65
70
(Sheridan)
(Byron's Letters)
72
79
97
The Death of Bayard
On Anger
The Cataract of Niagara
. (Robertson, History of Charles V.)
(Dodsley, Economy of Human Life)
(Goldsmith)
Brutus on the Death of Cæsar (Shakspeare, Julius Cæsar)
98
Scene between the Jews Shylock and Tubal. . (Shakspeare)
A Sketch of the Normans (T. B. Macaulay, History of England) 100
Influence of the French Language and Literature in the Age
A Pretty Quarrel between Master Tom Jones and his Play-
mate.
Sophia's Little Bird
Scene from "The Rivals "
Louis XI.
(Fielding, Tom Jones) 109
(Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward) 123
Fox (Lord Brougham, Statesmen of the Time of George III.)
Montaigne. (Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe) 138
The Vicar of Wakefield and his Family
The Spell of Wealth.
Real Happiness
Rural Life in England
Moonlight Scenery
(O. Goldsmith) 141
146
(W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair)
(W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair) 149
(Washington Irving, Sketch-Book) 152
(Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering) 155
Lady Montagu to Mrs. Thistlethwayte (Lady Montagu's Letters) 157
Worldly Motives
The Story of Lefevre.
(W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair) 178
(Sterne, Tristram Shandy) 183
Scene from "She Stoops to Conquer".
A Sea-fog and Wreck.
A Highland Revenge.
(O. Goldsmith) 196
(Captain Basil Hall, Fragments) 203
(Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy) 217
The Widow and her Son. (Washington Irving, Sketch Book) 221
An Episode of the late War, 1855. (W. H. Russell, The War) 226
Scene from "The Clandestine Marriage" (Garrick and Colman) 259
The Native Village
(Vicesimus Knox)
269
(Mrs. Barbauld)
272
(H. Blair) 276
On Forming a Taste for Simple Pleasures
On the Folly of Inconsistent Expectations
Religion never to be treated with Levity.
Scene from "Money"
Lord Chatham's Speech on the Immediate Removal of the
Troops from Boston, in America .
280
286
The Spectre Guest's Coming. (Miss Mitford, Country Stories)
Town versus Country
(Miss Mitford, Country Stories) 290
The Battle of Pharsalia. (O. Goldsmith, History of Rome) 295
The Battle of Otterburn (Sir W. Scott, Tales of a Grandfather) 303
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
.(E. S. Creasy) 308
The Battle of Assye (From the Duke of Wellington's Despatches) 313
Memorandum on the Battle of Assye
The Battle of the Alma.