English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay
Edition: Collector's ed.
Series: The Harvard classics ; v. 27; Harvard classics -- v. 27.
Published: 1909
Place of publication: Danbury, Conn; Grolier
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Notes: Includes "Introductions and notes."

Indexed in volume 50 of The Harvard classics set.

Reprint of 1937 Collier & Sons ed.
Table of contents: title: Contents: 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, 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 / Jonathan Swift.; title: Contents: On the death of Esther Johnson [Stella] / Jonathan Swift; title: The shortest-way with the dissenters, The 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: Contents: On the realities of the imagination / Leigh Hunt; title: On the tragedies of Shakspeare / Charles Lamb; title: Levana and our Ladies of Sorrow / Thomas de Quincey; title: A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley; title: Machiavelli / Thomas Babington Macaulay.