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English Essays From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay: V27 Harvard Classics

English Essays From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay: V27 Harvard Classics

Eliot, Charles W.

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Letters & EssaysFiction AnthologiesBritish History

ISBN10: 1162627212
ISBN13: 9781162627212
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
English Essays From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay: V27 Harvard Classics is a collection of essays written by various English authors from the 16th to the 19th century, compiled and edited by Charles W. Eliot. The book includes works by Sir Philip Sidney, Francis Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne, John Milton, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, and Thomas Babington Macaulay, among others. The essays cover a range of topics, including politics, religion, literature, and philosophy, and provide insights into the intellectual and cultural history of England. The book is part of the Harvard Classics series, which aims to provide a comprehensive library of the Western canon.1910. Contents: The Defense of Poesy by Sir Philip Sidney. On Shakespeare; On Bacon by Ben Jonson. Of Agriculture by Abraham Cowley. The Vision of Mirza; 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; On the Death of Esther Johnson (Stella) by Jonathan Swift. The Shortest Way With the Dissenters; The Education of Women by Daniel Defoe. Life of Addison by Samuel Johnson. Of the Standard of Taste by David Hume. Fallacies of Anti-reformers by Sydney Smith. On Posey 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 Shakespeare by Charles Lamb. Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow by Thomas De Quincey. A Defense of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Machiavelli by Thomas Babington Macaulay.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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