English essays
Subtitle: from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay ; with introductions and notes
Series: The Harvard classics -- v. 27; Harvard classics -- v. 27
Publisher: P.F. Collier
Published: 1937
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: English essays; Essays
Notes: "The five-foot shelf of books."
Table of contents: title: Defense of poesy / Sir Philip Sidney; title: On Shakespeare / Ben Jonson; title: On bacon / Ben Jonson; title: Of agriculture / Abraham Cowley; title: Vision of Mirza / Joseph Addison; title: Westminster Abbey / Joseph Addison; title: Spectator club / Sir Richard Steele; title: Hints towards an essay on conversation / Jonathan Swift; title: Treatise on good manners and good breeding / Jonathan Swift; title: Letter of advice to a young poet / Jonathan Swift; title: On the death of Esther Johnson (Stella) / Jonathan Swift; title: Shortest-way with the dissenters / Daniel Defoe; title: Education of women / Daniel Defoe; title: Life of Addison, 1672-1719 / Samuel Johnson; title: Of the standard of taste / David Hume; title: Fallacies of anti-reformers / Sydney Smith; title: On poesy or art / Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: Of persons one would wish to have seen / William Hazlitt; title: Deaths of little children / Leigh Hunt; title: On the realities of imagination / Leigh Hunt; title: On the tragedies of Shakspere / Charles Lamb; title: Levana and our ladies of sorrow / Thomas de Quinchey; title: Defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley; title: Machiavelli / Thomas Babington Macaulay.