English essays : from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay ; with introductions and notes.

Format:

Book

Series:

Harvard classics

The Harvard classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English essays.

Physical Description:

401 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : P.F. Collier, [1937]

Contents:

The defense of poesy / by Sir Philip Sidney

On Shakespeare ; On Bacon / by Ben Jonson

Of agriculture / by Abraham Cowley

The vision of Mirza and Westminster Abbey / by Joseph Addison

The Spectator club / by Sir Richard Steele

Hints towards an essay on conversation ; A treatise on good manners and good breeding ; A letter of advice to a young poet / by Jonathan Swift ; On the death of Esther Johnson (Stella) / by Jonathan Swift

The shortest-way with the Dissenters, or, Proposals for the establishment of the church ; The education of women / by Daniel Defoe

Life of Addison / 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.

OCLC:

23848990