English essays : from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay ; with introductions and notes.

Series title on spine: Harvard classics : the five foot shelf of books.

Life of Addison / by Samuel Johnson -- Of the standard of taste / by David Hume -- Fallacies of anti-reformers / by Sydney Smith -- On poesy or art / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Of persons one would wish to have seen / by William Hazlitt -- Deaths of little children ; On the realities of imagination / by Leigh Hunt -- On the tragedies of Shakspere / by Charles Lamb -- Levana and our ladies of sorrow / by Thomas de Quincey -- A defence of poetry / by Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Machiavelli / by Thomas Babington Macaulay.

The defense of poesy / by Sir Philip Sidney -- On Shakespeare ; On Bacon / by Ben Jonson -- Of agriculture / by Abraham Cowley -- The vision of Mirza and Westminster Abbey / by Joseph Addison -- The Spectator club / by Sir Richard Steele -- 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 -- The shortest-way with the Dissenters, or, Proposals for the establishment of the church ; The education of women / by Daniel Defoe --

Mode of access: Internet.

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