Short Fiction Eliot, Charles W. (editor), Harvard Classics 28: Essays English and American. v1.

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Essays English and American
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Jonathan Swift
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John Henry Newman
The Idea of a University
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Matthew Arnold
The Study of Poetry
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John Ruskin
Sesame and Lilies
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Walter Bagehot
John Milton (1859)
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Science and Culture
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Edward Augustus Freeman
Race and Language
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Truth of Intercourse
Samuel Pepys
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William Ellery Channing
On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes
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Edgar Allan Poe
The Poetic Principle
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Henry David Thoreau
Walking (1862)
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James Russell Lowell
Abraham Lincoln, 1864–1865
Democracy: Inaugural Address on Assuming the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham, England, 6 October, 1884

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