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