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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.
BODL
DOMIMINA NUSTIO ILLUMEA
R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.
The British Empire.
(James's Fables of Esop)
(Lord Chesterfield's Letters)
vii
xii
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2
4
5
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6
(Spectator)
. (Harris)
8
(Tatler)
9
11
12
13
England and Scotland (Sir W. Scott, Tales of a Grandfather)
The Comparison of Watches (Edgeworth's Modern Griselda)
Hearers and Doers. (S. Clarence, Not a Minute to Spare)
Scene from "The Good-natured Man "
Another Scene from "The Good-natured Man" (O. Goldsmith)
b
16
17
19
20
22
28
30
(Wm. Cowper's Letters)
33
37
41
Firmness of Alexander Severus
School-day Anecdotes
(Defoe)
59
62
65
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 Meeting of Waverley and Mac Ivor.
(Robertson, History of Charles V.)
(Dodsley, Economy of Human Life)
(Goldsmith)
(Shakspeare, Julius Cæsar)
70
(Sheridan)
(Byron's Letters)
72
79
91
93
95
97
98
100
Brutus on the Death of Cæsar
Scene between the Jews Shylock and Tubal. (Shakspeare)
A Sketch of the Normans (T. B. Macaulay, History of England)
Influence of the French Language and Literature in the Age
of Louis XIV.
John Bull
A Practical Useful Hint
A Pretty Quarrel between Master Tom Jones and his Play-
Sophia's Little Bird
Scene from "The Rivals"
Louis XI.
(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.
(W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair) (W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair)
(Washington Irving, Sketch-Book) 152
(Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering) 155
Lady Montagu to Mrs. Thistlethwayte (Lady Montagu's Letters) 157
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
The Death of Wm. Pitt, Earl of Chatham . (T. B. Macaulay) 255
Scene from "The Clandestine Marriage" (Garrick and Colman) 259
The Native Village. (Charles Lamb, Rosamund Gray)
On Forming a Taste for Simple Pleasures
On the Folly of Inconsistent Expectations
Religion never to be treated with Levity.
Scene from "Money"
(Vicesimus Knox)
265
269
(Mrs. Barbauld)
272
(H. Blair) 276
(Sir E. Bulwer Lytton) 277
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
The Battle of Pharsalia. (0. 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.