English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay :with introductions and notes.
- New York : Collier, (c)1937.
- 401 pages, 1. leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
The defense of Poesy On Shakespeare ; -- On Bacon Of agriculture The vision of Mireza ; -- Westminster Abbey The Spectator Club 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) The shortest way with the Dissenters ; -- The education of women Life of Addison Of the standard of taste Fallacies of anti-reformers On poesy or art Of persons one would wish to have seen Deaths of little children ; -- On the realiltites of imagination On the tragedies of Shakespere Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow A defence of poetry Machiavelli P. Sidney -- B. Jonson -- A. Cowley -- J. Addison -- R. Steele -- J. Swift -- D. Defoe -- S. Johnson -- D. Hume -- S. Smith -- S.T. Coleridge -- W. Hazlitt -- L. Hunt -- C. Lamb -- T. De Quincey -- P.B. Shelley -- T.B. Macaulay.