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SIR FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626)

  Narcissus or Self-Love

  Of Studies

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667- 1745)

  A Meditation upon a Broomstick

JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719)

  Defence and Happiness of Married Life

LORD CHESTERFIELD (1694-1773)

  Upon Affectation

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790)

  Too Dear for the Whistle

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)

  Conversation

  The Decay of Friendship

OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730 - 1774)

  A Visit to Westminster Abbey

WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)

  The Broken Heart

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792 - 1822)

  On Love

HENRY D. THOREAU (1817 - 1862)

  Solitude (Excerpt)

SAMUEL BUTLER (1835 - 1902)

  On Knowing What Gives Us Pleasure

MARK TWAIN (1835-1910)

  High and Low Music

  Advice to Youth

SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS (1857 - 1927)

  Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else (Excerpts)

STEPHEN LEACOCK (1867- 1944)

  Borrowing a Match

E.V. LUCAS (1868-1938)

  The Perfect Holiday

HILAIRE BELLOC (1870- 1953)

  A Conversation with a Cat

SIR MAX BEERBOHM (1872-1956)

  Seeing People off

BERTRAND RUSSELL (1872-1970)

  How to Grow Old

STEWART EDWARD WHITE (1873-1946)

  On Lying Awake at Night

CHARLES S. BROOKS (1878-1934)

  On the Difference between Wit and Humor

D.H. LAWRENCE (1885 - 1930)

  Give Her a Pattern

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1890 - 1957)

  On Laziness

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER (1890-1980)

  The Necessary Enemy (Excerpt)

E.B. WHITE (1899-1985)

  At Turtle Bay

GEORGE ORWE/L (1903-1950)

  Why Are Beggars Despised?

  Politics and the English Language (Excerpt)

RONALD DUNCAN (1914- 1982)

  The Three Peach Stones

ANDY ROONEY (1919-2011)

  Silence Is a Wonderful Sound