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Prose Chapter 10 English Prose in the 18th Century and 19th Century ?Ⅰ. 18th-Century Prose 1. Overview 2. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele 3. Samuel Johnson 4. Lord Chesterfield 5. Edwin Gibbon ?Ⅱ. 19th-Century Prose 1. Overview 2. Charles Lamb 3. William Hazlitt 4. Leigh Hunt 5. Thomas De Quincey Ⅲ. Prose Writers at the Mid and End of the 19th Century 1. Thomas Carlyle 2. Ruskin 3. Macaulay 4. Thomas Henry Huxley Ⅰ. 18th-Century Prose 1. Overview ? In the 17th century, prose had became a more popular form of writing. It serves to explain, to persuade, to define, to describe, criticize or simply to entertain. ? This century was the age of Reason. Because the civil war had ended, and order was preferred; because science developed rapidly, so people began to think more rationally. Classicism became the dominant trend in literature. 2. Joseph Addison and Richard Steele 艾迪生和斯梯尔? Life: Addison---gentle, sophisticated, and scholarly; Steele----passionate, enthusiastic, and adventurous 《闲话报》( Tatler ) ; 《旁观者报》( Spectator ) ? Work essays in Spectator Excerpt: Thoughts In Westminster Abbey ? When look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the petition, factions, and debates of mankind. ?看着这些伟人的坟墓,所有的嫉妒荡然无存: