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by Bob Blaisdell
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ISBN: 0486440826 Dover Publications Price: $3.50 |
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Essays spanning 4 centuries reflect the wit, wisdom, and common sense of a number of distinguished English writers. Included are Addison's "Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden," Swift's "A Meditation Upon a Broomstick," Johnson's "Dick Minim the Critic," plus compositions by Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and others.
Dover original selection of essays from standard sources.
Table of Contents for Great English Essays: From Bacon to Chesterton
| Francis Bacon | |||||||
| Of Love | |||||||
| Of Cunning | |||||||
| Of Ambition | |||||||
| Of Gardens | |||||||
| Thomas Fuller | |||||||
| The Good Schoolmaster | |||||||
| Owen Feltham | |||||||
| On Dreams | |||||||
| Abraham Cowley | |||||||
| Of Myself | |||||||
| Jonathan Swift | |||||||
| A Meditation on a Broomstick, According to the Style and Manner of the Hon. Robert Boyle's Meditations | |||||||
| A Modest Proposal | |||||||
| Joseph Addison | |||||||
| Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden | |||||||
| The Tory Fox-Hunter | |||||||
| Meditations in Westminster Abbey | |||||||
| Richard Steele | |||||||
| Jack Lizard | |||||||
| Recollections of Childhood | |||||||
| Samuel Johnson | |||||||
| Dick Minim the Critic | |||||||
| Spring | |||||||
| Sir Joshua Reynolds | |||||||
| Art Connoisseurs | |||||||
| Oliver Goldsmith | |||||||
| The Character of an Important Trifler, Beau Tibbs | |||||||
| The Character of the Trifler Continued: with That of His Wife, His House, and Furniture | |||||||
| National Prejudice | |||||||
| James Boswell | |||||||
| Passionate Love | |||||||
| Parents and Their Children | |||||||
| Charles Lamb | |||||||
| Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist | |||||||
| A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People | |||||||
| The Superannuated Man | |||||||
| Old China | |||||||
| William Hazlitt | |||||||
| On Familiar Style | |||||||
| On Going a Journey | |||||||
| Leigh Hunt | |||||||
| A Few Thoughts on Sleep | |||||||
| Getting Up on Cold Mornings | |||||||
| William Makepeace Thackeray | |||||||
| Tunbridge Toys | |||||||
| Charles Dickens | |||||||
| Lying Awake | |||||||
| Anthony Trollope | |||||||
| A Walk in a Wood | |||||||
| John Ruskin | |||||||
| The Clouds Are There | |||||||
| John Addington Symonds | |||||||
| Personal Style | |||||||
| W. H. Hudson | |||||||
| Her Own Village | |||||||
| Dandy: A Story of a Dog | |||||||
| Alice Meynell | |||||||
| Fellow Travellers with a Bird | |||||||
| The Unready | |||||||
| Richard Jefferies | |||||||
| The July Grass | |||||||
| Augustine Birrell | |||||||
| Book-Buying | |||||||
| Robert Louis Stevenson | |||||||
| Notes on the Movements of Young Children | |||||||
| George Bernard Shaw | |||||||
| On Pleasure Bent | |||||||
| G. K. Chesterton | |||||||
| A Defence of Skeletons | |||||||
| A Defence of Nonsense | |||||||
| Twelve Men | |||||||
| Virginia Woolf | |||||||
| Hours in a Library | |||||||
| D. H. Lawrence | |||||||
| Adolf |