English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay
By: with introductions and notes.
Edition: Registered ed. ; Deluxe ed.
Series: The Harvard classics -- v. [27]
Publisher: Collier
Published: 1937
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: English essays
Other titles: Addison, Steele, Swift, Defoe, Johnson and others.
Table of contents: title: The defense of Poesy / P. Sidney; title: On Shakespeare ; On Bacon / B. Jonson; title: Of agriculture / A. Cowley; title: The vision of Mireza ; Westminster Abbey / J. Addison; title: The Spectator Club / R. Steele; title: Hints toward an essay on conversation ; A treatise on good manners and good breeding ; A Letter of advice to a young poet ; On the death of Esther Johnson (Stella) / J. Swift; title: The shortest way with the Dissenters ; The education of women / D. Defoe; title: Life of Addison / S. Johnson; title: Of the standard of taste / D. Hume; title: Fallacies of anti-reformers / S. Smith; title: On poesy or art / S.T. Coleridge; title: Of persons one would wish to have seen / W. Hazlitt; title: Deaths of little children ; On the realiltites of imagination / L. Hunt; title: On the tragedies of Shakespere / C. Lamb; title: Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow / T. De Quincey; title: A defence of poetry / P.B. Shelley; title: Machiavelli / T.B. Macaulay.