CONTENTS

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TITLE, PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUES TO THE RECUYELL OF THE His-

TORIES OF TROY.

WILLIAM CAXTON

EPILOGUE TO DICTES AND SAYINGS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS

WILLIAM CAXTON

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9

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PROLOGUE TO GOLDEN LEGEND

PROLOGUE TO CATON

EPILOGUE TO AESOP

PROEM TO CHAUCER'S CANTERBURY TALES

PROLOGUE TO Malory's KING ARTHUR .

PROLOGUE TO VIRGIL's ENEYDOS .

WILLIAM CAXTON

WILLIAM CAXTON

WILLIAM CAXTON

WILLIAM CAXTON

WILLIAM CAXTON

WILLIAM CAXTON

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DEDICATION OF THE INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

JOHN CALVIN

TRANSLATED BY JOHN ALLEN

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DEDICATION OF THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES

NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

52

PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND

JOHN Knox

58

PREFATORY LETTER TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH ON THE FAERIE QUEENE

EDMUND SPENSER

61

PREFACE TO THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD

SIR WALTER RALEIGH

66

PROEMIUM, EPISTLE DEDICATORY, PREFACE, AND PLAN OF THE

INSTAURATIO Magna, Etc. .

Francis Bacon 116

TRANSLATION EDITED BY J. SPEDDING

PREFACE TO THE Novum ORGANUM.

Francis Bacon 143

PREFACE TO THE FIRST Folio EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE's Plays

HEMINGE AND CONDELL 148

PREFACE TO THE PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA

Sir Isaac NEWTON 150

TRANSLATED BY ANDREW MOTTE

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Preface to Fables, ANCIENT AND MODERN .

PREFACE TO JOSEPH ANDREWS

PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY

PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE

INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPYLAEN

JOHN DRYDEN 153

Henry FIELDING 176

SAMUEL JOHNS 182

SAMUEL JOHNSON 208

J. W. von GOETHE 251

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PREFACES TO Various VOLUMES OF POEMS . William WORDSWORTH 267

APPENDIX TO LYRICAL BALLADS

William WORDSWORTH 292

Essay SUPPLEMENTARY TO PREFACE William WORDSWORTH 311

PREFACE TO CROMWELL

Victor Hugo 337

PREFACE TO LEAVES OF Grass

Walt WHITMAN 388

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

H. A. TAINE 410