Essayists past and present
Subtitle: a selection of English essays
By: Edited, with an introd. and notes, by J. B. Priestley.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: English essays
Notes: Reprint of the 1925 ed.
Table of contents: title: On domestic felicity. Recollections of childhood. Of the club. By R. Steele.; title: Sir Roger at church. Sir Roger at the theatre. Death of Sir Roger de Coverley. By J. Addison.; title: A country visit. A meditation upon a broomstick. By J. Swift.; title: A journey in a stage coach, by S. Johnson.; title: Beau Tibbs (1). Beau Tibbs (2). By O. Goldsmith.; title: Old China. Captain Jackson. Imperfect sympathies. By C. Lamb.; title: Merry England. The fight. By W. Hazlitt.; title: Getting up on cold mornings. The old gentleman. By L. Hunt.; title: De finibus, by W. M. Thackeray.; title: A lark's flight, by A. Smith.; title: The lantern-bearers, by R. L. Stevenson.; title: My cousin the bookbinder, by E. V. Lucas.; title: The mowing of a field, by H. Belloc.; title: A piece of chalk, by G. K. Chesterton.; title: The shy fathers, by R. Lynd.