English Essays: Sidney to Macaulay. 1909–14. Vol. 27. The Harvard Classics

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He who goes through a rich man’s park, and sees things in it which never bless the mental eyesight of the possessor, is richer than he.

—On the Realities of Imagination

Leigh Hunt

Harvard Classics, Vol. 27

English Essays

From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay

Four centuries of the development of English prose are illustrated by 24 works from 17 authors, ranging from those best known for the essay, like Addison and Hazlitt, to those, like Jonson and Coleridge, whose poetic spirit infuses all their writings.

CONTENTS

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NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
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Sir Philip Sidney: Introductory Note; The Defense of Poesy
Ben Jonson: Introductory Note; On Shakespeare; On Bacon
Abraham Cowley: Introductory Note; Of Agriculture
Joseph Addison: Introductory Note; The Vision of Mirza; Westminster Abbey
Sir Richard Steele: Introductory Note; The Spectator Club
Jonathan Swift: Introductory Note; Hints Towards 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]
Daniel Defoe: Introductory Note; The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters; The Education of Women
Samuel Johnson: Introductory Note; Life of Addison, 1672–1719
David Hume: Introductory Note; Of the Standard of Taste
Sydney Smith: Introductory Note; Fallacies of Anti-Reformers
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Introductory Note; On Poesy or Art
William Hazlitt: Introductory Note; Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen
Leigh Hunt: Introductory Note; Deaths of Little Children; On the Realities of Imagination
Charles Lamb: Introductory Note; On the Tragedies of Shakspere
Thomas De Quincey: Introductory Note; Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Introductory Note; A Defence of Poetry
Thomas Babington Macaulay: Introductory Note; Machiavelli

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