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• English literature -- 17th century
• 17th century

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• Prose writings of Swift. (The Walter Scott publishing co., ltd., 1886), by Jonathan Swift, Daniel Aaron, and Walter Lewin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Noble stranger. (Printed for James Norris ..., 1683), by William Chamberlayne (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools, Compiled and Annotated, With Questions for Study, ed. by Emilie Kip Baker (Gutenberg text)
• Miscellanies. Fourth series. (Macmillan and co., ltd., 1908), by John Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standard English prose; Bacon to Stevenson (H.Holt, 1902), by Henry Spackman Pancoast (page images at HathiTrust)
• Models and values; a course of reading for students (Oxford university press, 1928), by Walter Clarke Phillips, Frank Rawley Byers, and William Garrett Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fact, fancy and opinion; examples of present day writing (The Atlantic monthly press, 1923), by Robert M. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• An anthology of imaginative prose (Herbert & Daniel, 1912), by R. P. Cowl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose specimens for use with classes in English composition (D. C. Heath & co., 1913), by Carson S. Duncan, William Lucius Graves, and Edwin Long Beck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prosaic garland; consisting of upwards of two-hundred pieces selected from the works of the distinguished writers of the present age (Printed for J. Cundee, 1807), by John Evans and John Leander Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Text-book for the story writer. (Row, Peterson & company, 1911), by Harriott Ely Fansler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections in English prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880). (Ginn & Company, 1891), by James M. Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of English prose writers, from the earliest times to the close of the seventeenth century (Printed for J. Bumpus by Hamlin and Seyfang, 1813), by George Burnett and George Stillman Hillard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of English prose writers, from the earliest times to the close of the seventeenth century (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807), by George Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progressive readings in prose (Doubleday, Page & company, 1925), by Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain and Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Century book of selections (The Century co., 1924), by Garland Greever and Joseph M. Bachelor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Adelphi. (The Adelphi, British Periodicals Limited, 1923), by John Middleton Murry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts, thought, and imagination; a book on writing (The Macmillan Company, 1917), by Henry Seidel Canby, Willard Higley Durham, and Frederick Erastus Pierce (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Quincey's posthumous works (W. Heinemann, 1891), by Thomas De Quincey and Alexander H. Japp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Actions and reactions (Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1909), by Rudyard Kipling, Colt Kipling Collection (Library of Congress), and Kipling Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good reading. First book (C. Scribner's sons, 1922), by Joseph Villiers Denney and Bernard Raymund (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose writers of German (Carey and Hart, 1848), by Frederic Henry Hedge and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cassell's library of English literature : Selections (Cassell & Co., 1876), by Henry Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose preferences (Harper & Brothers, 1926), by Sidney Cox and Edmund Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose; selections (Macmillan and Co., 1893), by Henry Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptive passages (Century Co., 1928), by Paul M. Fulcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Oxford book of English prose (The Clarendon Press, 1925), by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1921), by William Peacock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of narration. (F. S. Crofts & co., 1926), by Mary Ellen Chase and Frances Kelley Del Plaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections in English prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580- 1880). (Ginn & Company, 1892), by James Mercer Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose narrative, descriptive and dramatic (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1916), by Henry Arthur Treble (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose (1137-1890) (Ginn and Company, 1909), by John Matthews Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The way of composition ; an introduction to the analytical study of the forms of writing (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1925), by University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of prose narratives, chosen and ed. (Ginn and company, 1914), by Chauncey Wetmore Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Representative English prose and prose writers (A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1887), by Theodore W. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches and essays (J. Templeman, 1839), by William Hazlitt and William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of narration (H. Holt and company, 1895), by W. T. Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of rhetorical analysis. Studies in style and invention. Designed to accompany the author's Practical elements of rhetoric (Ginn & company, 1897), by John Franklin Genung (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of description (F. S. Crofts & Co., 1925), by Marjorie Hope Nicolson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of exposition. (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1922), by Homer Heath Nugent (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose; a series of related essays for the discussion and practice of the art of writing (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913), by Frederick William Roe and George Roy Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose, from Maundevile to Thackeray (W. Scott;, 1888), by Arthur Howard Galton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Types of English prose, non-fiction (Macmillan, 1941), by Virgil B. Heltzel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mechanism of English style (Oxford university press, American branch; [etc., etc.], 1916), by Lewis Worthington Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The student's common-place book: a cyclopedia of illustration and fact. (A. S. Barnes & company, 1876), by Henry J. Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose models for use with classes in English composition (D. C. Health and company, 1928), by Edwin Long Beck and William Lucius Graves (page images at HathiTrust)
• The way of composition; an introduction to the analytical study of the forms of writing (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1926), by University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treasury of English prose (Houghton Mifflin company, 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose; selections, with critical introductions by various writers, and general introductions to each period (Macmillan and Co., 1911), by Henry Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Models for study (Funk & Wagnalls company, 1911), by Grenville Kleiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes from a diary, 1851-1872 (J. Murray, 1897), by Mountstuart E. Grant Duff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections in English prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880). (Ginn & company, 1890), by James M. Garnett and James M. Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elegant extracts : a copious selection of instructive, moral, and entertaining passages, from the most eminent prose writers. (Wells and Lilly, 1826), by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of prose description (Holt, 1895), by Charles Sears Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thought and its expression ; a course in thinking and writing for college students (Harcourt, Brace, 1928), by George Carpenter Clancy (page images at HathiTrust)
• An anthology of English prose : (1332 to 1740) (Longmans, Green, 1912), by Annie Barnett and Lucy Dale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the technique of prose style (Priv. Print., 1915), by Percy Waldron Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freshman readings (Houghton Mifflin company, 1925), by Roger 1887- Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading prose; an introduction to critical study (Oxford University Press, 1952), by C. W. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• An English prose miscellany (Methuen, 1907), by John Masefield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern English prose (Macmillan, 1905), by George R. Carpenter and William Tenney Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of description (F. S. Crofts & co., 1928), by Marjorie Hope Nicolson and Mary Ellen Chase (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal recollections of Lamb, Hazlitt, and others. (Scribner, Armstrong and company, 1875), by Richard Henry Stoddard, William Winter, P. G. Patmore, and Armstrong Scribner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of English prose writers, from the earliest times to the close of the seventeenth century, with sketches, biographical and literary ... (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807), by George Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrative examples of English composition (C. Scribner's sons, 1913), by James Weber Linn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauties of British poetry (Printed and sold by Brook and Lancashire : sold also by Vernor & Hood, Crosby & Letterman, London, 1801), by Sydney Melmoth and Thomas Bewick (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose from Bacon to Hardy (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1918), by Edmund Kemper Broadus and R. K. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose; selections (Macmillan and co., 1907), by Henry Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose : narrative, descriptive and dramatic (H. Milford ;, 1921), by H. A. Treble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autumn gatherings : being a collection of prose and poetry, sacred and secular. (London, 1866), by Philip Abraham (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of English prose, 1470-1900 (Macmillan and Co., 1913), by J. H. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A little book of English prose. (Methuen, 1800), by Annie Barnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• College readings in English prose (The Macmillan company, 1914), by Frank W. Scott and Jacob Zeitlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Birth, life, and acts of King Arthur (Printed from Caxton's edition, 1485, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, by T. Davison, 1817), by Thomas Malory, T. Davison, William Caxton, Robert Southey, and Edward Vernon Utterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elegant extracts; or, The literary nosegay: consisting of selections in prose (Printed and Published by Philip Mauro, 1814), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examples of English prose, from the reign of Elizabeth to the present time: with an introduction. (Sold by H. G. Bohn;, 1825), by George Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Thousand and one gems of English prose (G. Routledge, 1872), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous studies in prose (Funk & Wagnalls, 1911), by Grenville Kleiser (page images at HathiTrust)
• Useful and entertaining passages in prose (C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1824), by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose : a series of related essays for the discussion and practice of the art of writing (Longmans, Green, 1914), by Frederick William Roe and George Roy Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passages from the hundred best English prose writers. (T.Y. Crowell, 1910), by Adam L. Gowans (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treasury of English prose. (Constable, 1919), by Logan Pearsall Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model paragraphs,: selected by a committee from the Department of English in Cornell university (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1921), by Leslie Nathan Broughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing craftsmanship, models and readings (The Macmillan company, 1926), by Maurice G. Fulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• An anthology of English prose from Bede to R.L.S. (Dent;, 1920), by S. L. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The college book of prose, 1400-1929 (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929), by Robert M. Gay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from English prose: (Ainsworth & company, 1903), by James Jesse Burns, Walter Savage Landor, Edmund Burke, and Charles Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of prose description (Holt, 1906), by Charles Sears Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose; selections (Macmillan and Co., 1905), by Henry Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose you ought to know (Fleming H. Revell Co., 1906), by John R. Howard and Fleming H. Revell Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typical selections from the best English authors, with introductory notices. (Clarendon Press, 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in English prose, consisting of specimens of the language in its earliest, succeeding, and latest stages; with notes explanatory and critical, and a sketch of the history of the English language and a concise Anglo-Saxon grammar. Intended as a text-book for schools and colleges. (Crosby Lockwood, 1881), by Joseph Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beauties of British prose (Printed by Brook and Lancashire for B. Crosby and Co., 1805), by Sydney Melmoth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great English prose writers (F.S. Crofts, 1929), by Hardin Craig and Joseph Morris Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper's anthology ... (Harper & brothers, 1926), by William F. Giese and Frederick Alexander Manchester (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose from Mandeville to Ruskin : chosen and arranged by W. Peacock. (Oxford University Press, 1903), by William Peacock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Standard English prose; Bacon to Stevenson (H. Holt and company, 1903), by Henry Spackman Pancoast (page images at HathiTrust)
• College readings in English prose (Macmillan, 1921), by Frank W. Scott and Jacob Zeitlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elegant extracts: or, useful and entertaining passages in prose, selected for the improvement of young persons : being similar in design to 'Elegant extracts in poetry'. (J. Johnson [etc.], 1801), by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• English collection (Cormon and Blanc, 1816), by Th. W. and Th W. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elegant extracts : or, Useful and entertaining pieces of poetry. (C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1824), by Vicesimus Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gleanings from poetry and prose on the Christian virtues (s.n.], 1887), by Mary B. Johnston and Kohler Collection of British Poetry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections in English prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1580-1880) (Ginn & Company, 1902), by James Mercer Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose from Mandeville to Ruskin (Oxford University Press, 1947), by William Peacock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young man's book of elegant prose : comprising selections from the classical authors of Great Britain and America. (Leavitt & Allen, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revolt of the Tartars. (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), by Thomas De Quincey and Charles Sears Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A primer of English and American literature (American Asylum, 1894), by Abel S. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhetorical analysis. (Ginn & Co, 1890), by John Franklin Genung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of English prose from Malory to Carlyle. (Blackie & Son, 1899), by Bertha Marian Skeat and Bertha M. Skeat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from a Chinese philosopher, residing in London, to his friends in the East (Wells Gardner, Darton, 1904), by Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund J. Sullivan, and Richard Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose from Mandeville to Ruskin (H. Frowde, 1905), by William Peacock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill and other literary estimates (The Macmillan company;, 1900), by Frederic Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marvellous magazine, or, Entertaining pocket companion (Printed by James Charles, 1822) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exposition (The Macmillan Company, 1914), by Maurice G. Fulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ye lyttle Salem maide, a story of witchcraft (Almy, Bigelow & Washburn, 1906), by Pauline Bradford Mackie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spindrift: salt from the ocean of English prose. (University Press, 1915), by Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender (page images at HathiTrust)
• The whirlpool. (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911), by George Gissing (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hive of ancient & modern literature : a collection of essays, narratives, allegories and instructive compositions (Printed by and for S. Hodgson ..., 1812), by Solomon Hodgson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose; selections, with critical introductions by various writers, and general introductions to each period (Macmillan and co., 1900), by Henry Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short stories and selections, for use in the secondary schools (The Macmillan company, 1916), by Emilie Kip Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing craftsmanship, models and readings. (The Macmillan company, 1929), by Maurice G. Fulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of modern Catholic prose. (H. Holt and company, 1928), by Theodore Maynard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A freshman miscellany (Prentice-Hall, 1929), by Karl Julius Holzknecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progressive readings in prose (Doubleday, Page & company, 1923), by Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain and Joseph S. G. Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Creative prose writing (Doubleday, Page & company, 1926), by Bernard Levi Jefferson and Harry Houston Peckham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters, sentences and maxims (Chesterfield Society, in the 1850s), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, and Charles Edward Sayle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of English prose style from Malory to Macaulay (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1903), by George Saintsbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A brief anthology of British prose and verse (F. B.Robinson, 1933), by Alfred Donaldson Compton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• College readings in English prose. (Macmillan, 1926), by Frank W. Scott and Jacob Zeitlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pageant of English prose : being five hundred passages by three hundred and twenty-five authors (Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), by R. M. Leonard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical studies in composition (The Macmillan company, 1929), by Roy Ivan Johnson, W. W. Charters, and Laura Anita Searcy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Freshman readings (Houghton Mifflin, 1927), by Roger Sherman Loomis and Thomas Wolfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose; selections (Macmillan and Co., 1920), by Henry Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the writings of Walter Savage Landor (Macmillan and co., limited, 1913), by Walter Savage Landor and Sidney Colvin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• College readings in English prose (The Macmillan company, 1928), by Frank W. Scott and Jacob Zeitlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fireside fables. (J.M. Dent & sons ltd., 1910), by Edwin Pindar Barrow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ben Jonson's conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden (Blackie and Son Ltd., 1924), by Ben Jonson, R. F. Patterson, and William Drummond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• British poetry and prose : a book of readings (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928), by Robert K. Root, Robert Morss Lovett, and Paul Robert Lieder (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prose : selections : with critical introductions by various writers, and general introductions to each period (Macmillan and Co., 1893), by Henry Craik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cheating, swindling and murder (The Arnold Co., 1925), by Jesse Lee Bennett, Thomas De Quincey, Douglas Jerrold, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2], by Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by Richard Herne Shepherd (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 1 [of 2], by Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by Richard Herne Shepherd (Gutenberg ebook)
• Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer, by Harriott Ely Fansler (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Book of Exposition, by Homer Heath Nugent (Gutenberg ebook)
• English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of the Art of Writing, ed. by Frederick William Roe and George Roy Elliott (Gutenberg ebook)

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