English essays, from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay.
Print Book 1910 |
Available at 1 Library 1 of 1 copy |
Contents
The defense of poesy / by Sir Philip SidneyOn Shakespeare ; On Bacon / by Ben Jonson
Of agriculture / by Abraham Cowley
The vision of Mirza ; Westminster Abbey / by Joseph Addison
The Spectator Club / by Sir Richard Steele
Hints towards an essay of conversation ; A treatise on good manners and good breeding ; A letter of advice to a young poet ; On the death of Esther Johnson [Stella] / by Jonathan Swift
The shortest-way with the dissenters ; The education of women / by Daniel Defoe
Life of Addison, 1672-1719 / by Samuel Johnson
Of the standard of taste / by David Hume
Fallacies of anti-reformers / by Sydney Smith
On poesy or art / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Of persons one would wish to have seen / by William Hazlitt
Deaths of little children ; On the realities of imagination / by Leigh Hunt
On the tragedies of Shakspere / by Charles Lamb
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow / by Thomas de Quincey
A defence of poetry / by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Machiavelli / by Thomas Babington Macaulay.
Additional Information
Subjects |
English essays.
Essays. |
Publisher | New York :P.F. Collier & Son,1910 |
Language |
English |
Notes |
Includes introductions and notes. |
Description |
421 pages : portrait ; 21 cm. |
Other | Classic View |