English essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay.

The defense of Poesy, by P. Sidney.--On Shakespeare. On Bacon, by B. Jonson.--Of agriculture, by A. Cowley.--The vision of Mirza. Westminster abbey, by J. Addison.--The spectator club, by R. Steele.--Hints toward 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 J. Swift.--The shortest-way with the Dissenters. The education of women, by D. Defoe.--Life of Addison, by S. Johnson.--Of the standard of taste, by D. Hume.--Fallacies of anti-reformers, by S. Smith.--On poesy or art, by S.T. Coleridge.--Of persons one would wish to have seen, by W. Hazlitt.--Deaths of little children. On the realities of imagination, by L. Hunt.--On the tragedies of Shakspere, by C. Lamb.--Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow, by T. De Quincey.--A defence of poetry, by P.B. Shelley.--Machiavellie, by T.B. Macaulay.