English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586, Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637, Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719, Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667, Steele, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729, Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Hume, David, 1711-1776, Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830, Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834, De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822, Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : P.F. Collier & Son, [1937]
Edition:	Registered ed.
Series:	Harvard classics ; v. 27.
Subjects:	English essays.

Table of Contents:

The defense of Poesy / Sir Philip Sidney
On Shakespeare ; On Bacon / Ben Jonson
Of agriculture / Abraham Cowley
The vision of Mirza ; Westminster Abbey / Joseph Addison
The Spectator Club / Sir Richard Steele
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) / Jonathan Swift
The shortest way with the Dissenters ; The education of women / Daniel Defoe
Life of Addison,1672-1719 / Samuel Johnson
Of the standard of taste / David Hume
Fallacies of anti-reformers / Sydney Smith
On poesy or art / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Of persons one would wish to have seen / William Hazlitt
Deaths of little children ; On the realities of imagination / Leigh Hunt
On the tragedies of Shakspere / Charles Lamb
Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow / Thomas De Quincey
A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Machiavelli / Thomas Babington Macaulay.