A book of English essays (1600-1900)
By: selected by Stanley V. Makower and Basil H. Blackwell
Contributors: Blackwell, Basil H.
Series: The World's classics, CLXXII; World's classics -- 172.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1912
Place of publication: London ;, New York
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: English essays
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: v; title: Of Masques and Triumphs
pagenum: 1
authors: Francis Bacon; title: Of Superstition
pagenum: 3
authors: Francis Bacon; title: Of Great Place
pagenum: 5
authors: Francis Bacon; title: A Franklin
pagenum: 9
authors: Sir Thomas Overbury; title: A Young Raw Preacher
pagenum: 11
authors: John Earle, Bishop of Salisbury; title: Of Dreams
pagenum: 13
authors: Owen Feltham; title: On Dreams
pagenum: 16
authors: Sir Thomas Browne; title: The Good Sea Captain
pagenum: 22
authors: Thomas Fuller; title: Of War
pagenum: 24
authors: Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon; title: The Dangers of an Honest Man in Much Company
pagenum: 33
authors: Abraham Cowley; title: Character of M. St. Evremont
pagenum: 40
authors: John Dryden; title: Hints Toward an Essay on Conversation
pagenum: 45
authors: Jonathan Swift; title: Autocrats at a Coffee-house
pagenum: 57
authors: Sir Richard Steele; title: On Conversational Talent
pagenum: 61
authors: Sir Richard Steele; title: The Vision of Mirza
pagenum: 67
authors: Joseph Addison; title: Popular Superstitions
pagenum: 73
authors: Joseph Addison; title: An Essay on Nothing
pagenum: 78
authors: Henry Fielding; title: The Advantages of Living in a Garret
pagenum: 91
authors: Samuel Johnson; title: On Sorrow
pagenum: 98
authors: Samuel Johnson; title: Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature
pagenum: 104
authors: David Hume; title: Happiness Dependent on Constitution
pagenum: 112
authors: Oliver Goldsmith; title: Asem, an Eastern Tale
pagenum: 116
authors: Oliver Goldsmith; title: Edgeworth on Bulls
pagenum: 126
authors: Sydney Smith; title: Christ's Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago
pagenum: 133
authors: Charles Lamb; title: Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
pagenum: 150
authors: Charles Lamb; title: On Nicknames
pagenum: 159
authors: William Hazlitt; title: On Actors and Acting
pagenum: 169
authors: William Hazlitt; title: John Bull
pagenum: 175
authors: Washington Irving; title: Fiction and Matter of Fact
pagenum: 190
authors: James Henry Leigh Hunt; title: Shakespeare's Birthday
pagenum: 199
authors: James Henry Leigh Hunt; title: On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
pagenum: 204
authors: Thomas De Quincey; title: Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
pagenum: 210
authors: Thomas De Quincey; title: The Opera
pagenum: 220
authors: Thomas Carlyle; title: John Bunyan
pagenum: 228
authors: Thomas Babington Macaulay; title: Gifts
pagenum: 247
authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: Philosophy of Furniture
pagenum: 253
authors: Edgar Allan Poe; title: De Finibus
pagenum: 262
authors: William Makepeace Thackeray; title: Brokers' and Marine-store Shops
pagenum: 275
authors: Charles Dickens; title: Ethical Doubts Concerning Reineke Fuchs
pagenum: 282
authors: James Anthony Froude; title: In the Mediterranean
pagenum: 308
authors: James Russell Lowell; title: The Extension of Railways in the Lake District
pagenum: 315
authors: John Ruskin; title: Authorship
pagenum: 323
authors: George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans); title: Dante and Beatrice
pagenum: 330
authors: Matthew Arnold; title: Boscastle
pagenum: 341
authors: Walter Bagehot; title: Morris's Life and Death of Jason
pagenum: 349
authors: Algernon Charles Swinburne; title: Notes on Leonardo da Vinci
pagenum: 362
authors: Walter Horatio Pater; title: Personal Style
pagenum: 388
authors: John Addington Symonds; title: The July Grass
pagenum: 396
authors: Richard Jefferies; title: A Plea for Gas Lamps
pagenum: 401
authors: Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The English Admirals
pagenum: 405
authors: Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The Way of Imperfection
pagenum: 422
authors: Francis Thompson; title: Travellers' Tales
pagenum: 433
authors: Mary Coleridge; title: List of Authors
pagenum: 439