English essays
Subtitle: from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay ; with introductions and notes
Series: The Five-foot shelf of books : "the Harvard classics" -- v. 27; Harvard classics -- v. 27
Publisher: P.F. Collier
Published: 1910
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
Subjects: English essays
Notes: Series title on spine: Harvard classics : the five foot shelf of books.

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Table of contents: title: The defense of poesy / by Sir Philip Sidney; title: On Shakespeare ; On Bacon / by Ben Jonson; title: Of agriculture / by Abraham Cowley; title: The vision of Mirza and Westminster Abbey / by Joseph Addison; title: The Spectator club / by Sir Richard Steele; title: 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; title: The shortest-way with the Dissenters, or, Proposals for the establishment of the church ; The education of women / by Daniel Defoe; title: Life of Addison / by Samuel Johnson; title: Of the standard of taste / by David Hume; title: Fallacies of anti-reformers / by Sydney Smith; title: On poesy or art / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: Of persons one would wish to have seen / by William Hazlitt; title: Deaths of little children ; On the realities of imagination / by Leigh Hunt; title: On the tragedies of Shakspere / by Charles Lamb; title: Levana and our ladies of sorrow / by Thomas de Quincey; title: A defence of poetry / by Percy Bysshe Shelley; title: Machiavelli / by Thomas Babington Macaulay.