English essays from Sir Philip Sidney Macaulay : with introduction, notes and illustrations

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The defense of poesy / Sir Philip Sidney

On Shakespeare ; On Bacon / Ben Jonson

Of agriculture / Abraham Cowley

The vision of Mirza ; Westminster Abbey / Joseph Addison

The Spectator Club / Sir Richard Steele

Hints towards an essay of conversation ; A treatise on good manners and good breeding ; A letter of advice to a young poet ; On the death of Esther Johnson [Stella] / Jonathan Swift

The shortest-way with the dissenters ; The education of women / Daniel Defoe

Life of Addison, 1672-1719 / Samuel Johnson

Of the standard of taste / David Hume

Fallacies of anti-reformers / Sydney Smith

On poesy or art / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Of persons one would wish to have seen / William Hazlitt

Deaths of little children ; On the realities of imagination / Leigh Hunt

On the tragedies of Shakespeare / Charles Lamb

Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow / Thomas de Quincey

A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelley

Machiavelli / Thomas Babington Macaulay