Half-hours with the best authors

• Main Author: Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
• Other Authors: Harvey, William, 1796-1866
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Frederick Warne and Co. 1893
• Subjects: English literature; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns2/id/124912

Half-Hours with the Best Authors Knight 1893 A good man's day / Bishop Hall -- The influence of science on the wellbeing nd progress of society / Herschel -- The piteous death of the son of Gaston de Foix / Froissart -- Old dramatic poets / Massinger -- The war in La Vendee / Marquise de La-Rochejaquelein -- A tale of terror / Courier -- The opening year / Various -- St. Paul at Athens / Milman -- Roger Ascham and Lady Jane Grey / Landor -- Dejection: an ode / Coleridge -- Apophthegms / Various -- The candid man / Lord Lytton -- Sir Roger de Coverley / Addison -- The barometer / Arnott -- Sunday / Herbert -- The history of Perkin Warbeck / Bacon -- The ancient mansion / Crabbe -- The spider and the bee / Swift -- Of the jealousy of trade / David Hume -- A complaint of the decay of beggars in the metropolis / C. Lamb -- The first man / Buffon -- Nature's law / Hooker -- The good lord Clifford / Wordsworth -- Struggling with adversity / Basil Hall -- Omens / Davy -- The present age / Channing -- Classical education / Arnold -- Sir Alexander Ball / Coleridge -- The measures and offices of friendship / Jeremy Taylor -- The British hirundines / Gilbert White -- The voluble lady / Jane Austen -- May / Various -- Progress of the mechanical arts / Daniel Webster -- Decision of character / John Foster -- The dream of Eugene Aram / Hood -- The strange contrarieties discoverable in human nature / Pascal -- Account of the great fire of London / Evelyn -- The red fisherman / Praed -- Sir Roger de Coverley / Addison -- Ballads / Various -- An Irish village / Carleton Includes indexes