Great essays by Montaigne, Sidney, Milton, Cowley, Disraeli, Lamb, Irving, Lowell, Jefferies, and others
Subtitle: with biographical notes and a critical introduction by Helen K. Johnson ...
Contributors: Johnson, Helen Kendrick, 1844-1917.
Series: The world's great books. Aldine edition; world's great books ... Aldine edition
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
Published: 1900
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: English essays.
Table of contents: title: Essays and essayists, by H.K. Johnson.; title: Of the institution and education of Children, by M.E. de Montaigne.; title: The defence of poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney.; title: Areopagitica ... by John Milton.; title: A discourse, by way of vision, concerning the government of Oliver Cromwell, by Abraham Cowley.; title: Of rewarding genius in England, by Oliver Goldsmith.; title: Common sense, by Thomas Paine.; title: The crisis, by Thomas Paine.; title: The philosophy of proverbs, by Isaac Disraeli.; title: A complaint of the decay of beggars, by Charles Lamb.; title: The convalescent, by Charles Lamb.; title: Rural funerals, by Washington Irving.; title: Thomas Ellwood, by J.G. Whittier.; title: On a certain condescension in foreigners, by J.R. Lowell.; title: Intellectual health and disease, by Edwin Percy Whipple.; title: Hindrances to spiritual growth, by John Campbell Shairp.; title: Sweetness and light, by Matthew Arnold.; title: A complaint of friends, by Gail Hamilton.; title: The pageant of summer, by Richard Jefferies.; title: Child's play, by Robert Louis Stevenson.