The Student's Specimens of English Literature, CHOICE SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE; SELECTED FROM THE CHIEF ENGLISH WRITERS, AND ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. BY THOMAS B. SHAW, A.M., AND WILLIAM SMITH, LL. D. ADAPTED TO THE USE OF AMERICAN STUDENTS, BY BENJAMIN N. MARTIN, D.D., L. H.D., PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. SHELDON & COMPANY, NEW YORK & CHICAGO. SHAW'S HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. WAYLAND'S MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY. LONG'S CLASSICAL ATLAS. Copyright, 1869, by Sheldon Co. E. L Thu following extracts from the Chief English Writers were selected by the late Mr. Shaw to accompany his History of English Literature, and are divided into the same number of chapters, that they may be read with the biographical and critical account of each author. They present Specimens of all the chief English Writers from the earliest times to the present century. In making these Selections, two objects have been chiefly kept in view: first, the illustration of the style of each Writer by some of the most striking or characteristic specimens of his works; and, secondly, the choice of such passages as are suitable, citt er from their langviage or their matter, to be read in schools or committed to memory. W. S |