CHAPTERS IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY:

Lord Herbert of Cherbury: The Fight with Sir John Ayres

Samuel Pepys: Extracts from the Diary

Jonathan Swift: Extracts from the Journal to Stella

Colley Cibber: "Talking of Himself"

My Early Love

Edward Gibbon: At Oxford .

Thomas Carlyle: Life in London

"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Charles Dickens: Hard Experiences in Boyhood

John Ruskin: The Campo Santo

Robert Louis Stevenson: Learning to Write

SELECTIONS FROM FAMOUS BIOGRAPHERS:

Izaak Walton: The Life of Dr. Robert Sanderson

Samuel Johnson: The Life of Pope

James Boswell: The Meeting of Dr. Johnson and Wilkes

Robert Southey: The Death of Nelson

John Gibson Lockhart: The Death of Scott

Thomas Babington Macaulay: Fanny Burney at Court.

Thomas Carlyle: Torrijos and John Sterling.

William Makepeace Thackeray: Oliver Goldsmith.

LIVES FROM THE Dictionary of National Biography:

Sir Walter Ralegh

Sir Philip Sidney

John Bunyan.

Sir Richard Steele

Samuel Johnson

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