The great lover / Rupert Brooke -- A note on emotional language -- A storm / Mark Twain -- The thunderstorm / Adalbert Stifter -- The wind / Roger Ascham -- The whirlwind / Benjamin Franklin -- Shanties at Walden Pond / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The house beautiful / Mark Twain -- Hall-bedrooms / Llewellyn Powys -- Old houses / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Miss birdseye / Henry James -- A working class mother / Richard Hoggart -- Auda / T.E. Lawrence -- The old apple dealer / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Old man facing death / Oliver LaFarge -- Red / Niccolo Tucci -- A fight / Theocritus -- A slave galley / John Evelyn -- Description of a city shower / Jonathan Swift -- Arab feasting / T.E. Lawrence -- The inside of an omnibus / Leigh Hunt -- Conversation / Robert Lynd -- Old men in libraries / Richard Hoggart -- An autumn night in the hills / J.M. Synge -- The social instinct among animals / Gilbert White -- The judgment of the birds / Loren Eiseley -- The finger-nail and the note / Samuel Butler -- Beer and my cat / Samuel Butler -- Small economies / Elizabeth Clgeghorn Gaskell -- On the use of language / Oliver Goldsmith -- Marrakech / George Orwell -- A house of correction / Llewellyn Powys -- The line / Herman Melville -- The pattern-makers / William McFee -- The tactless man; The flatterer / Theophrastus -- The hunter / Samuel Butler -- The languid lady / Edward Young -- Song / John Donne -- On quick and slow wits of pupils / Roger Ascham -- Madness / G.K. Chesterton -- Dying / Jeremy Taylor -- Darwin among the machines / Samuel Butler -- Idols of the mind / Francis Bacon -- The governor of Los Teques / T.R. Ybarra -- The Peloponnesian War: final defeat of the Athenian forces / Thucydides -- The evolution of the horse / Leslie Reid -- What is Zen? / R.H. Blyth -- Mauled by a lion / David Livingstone -- Getting up on cold mornings / Leigh Hunt -- The country visit / Soame Jenyns -- The grasshopper and the ant / Hamlin Garland -- London road / Laurie Lee -- The good-morrow / John Donne -- Three dreams / Dag Hammerskjold -- Discovery of a father / Sherwood Anderson -- Tribulations of a cheerful giver / William Dean Howells -- Visions in a fever / George Gissing -- The hospital; The hand / Rainer Maria Rilke -- The pains of opium / Thomas de Quincey -- A moose hunt / Henry David Thoreau -- Walking tours / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Holding a baby / Heywood Broun -- An apology for idlers / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Success in life / Walter Pater -- The essential things / John Ruskin -- Chariots go forth to war / Tu Fu -- The thief and the moon / Ryokan -- To a young lady on her marriage / Jonathan Swift -- Letter to his son / Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield -- Advice to youth / Mark Twain -- In what way princes must keep faith / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Base details / Siegfried Sassoon -- The latest decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough -- Letter to Lord Chesterfield / Samuel Johnson -- Fools are happy / Erasmus of Rotterdam -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- The penitent / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Four fables for our time / James Thurber -- Justice, an Ethipian folk tale -- Lie thee down, oddity / T.F. Powys -- Heaven / Rupert Brooke.