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Title: The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)--Great Britain and Ireland II

Author: Various

Editor: Henry Cabot Lodge and Francis W. Halsey

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THE BEST
_of the_
WORLD'S CLASSICS

RESTRICTED TO PROSE

HENRY CABOT LODGE
Editor-in-Chief

FRANCIS W. HALSEY
Associate Editor

With an Introduction, Biographical and Explanatory Notes, etc.

In Ten Volumes

Vol. IV

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--II

[Illustration: DR. JOHNSON, GOLDSMITH, POPE, and GIBBON]

Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London
Copyright, 1909, by
Funk & Wagnalls Company

The Best of the World's Classics

VOL. IV

GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--II

1672-1800

CONTENTS

VOL. IV--GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND--II

SIR RICHARD STEELE--(Born in 1672, died in 1729.)

I Of Companions and Flatterers

II The Story-Teller and His Art.
(From _The Guardian_)

III Sir Roger and the Widow.
(From _The Spectator_)

IV The Coverley Family Portraits.
(From _The Spectator_)

V On Certain Symptoms of Greatness.
(From _The Tatler_)

VI How to Be Happy tho Married.
(From _The Tatler_)

LORD BOLINGBROKE--(Born in 1678, died in