Great English essays /
| Основен автор: | Reeves, James, (ed.) |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London,
Cassell,
[1961].
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Great English essays. |
Съдържание:
- Of studies ; Of youth and age ; Of ambition / Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans
- An affectate traveler ; A Franklin / Sir Thomas Overbury
- A discontented man ; A pretender to learning / John Earle
- The misery of being old and ignorant ; Of censure / Owen Felltham
- The good sea captain / Thomas Fuller
- Of myself / Abraham Cowley
- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift
- Sir Roger at the play ; Popular superstitions / Joseph Addison
- The art of conversation / Sir Richard Steele
- On the spirit of patriotism / Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
- Affectation / Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield
- Praises of solitude ; Good humour / Samuel Johnson
- Of the dignity or meanness of human nature / David Hume
- Distress in prisons / John Howard
- Mad dogs ; National prejudices / Oliver Goldsmith
- Country congregations / William Cowper
- Candles and rushes / William Cobbett
- The tempest / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Dream-children : a reverie ; Old china / Charles Lamb
- On the pleasure of painting ; On respectable people / William Hazlitt
- English writers in America / Washington Irving
- Tea-drinking / James Henry Leigh Hunt
- On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth / Thomas De Quincey
- On Life / Percy Bysshe Shelley
- On history ; Midas / Thomas Carlyle
- Oliver Goldsmith / Thomas Babington Macaulay, First Baron Macaulay
- Religion and science / John Henry Newman
- Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Resistance to civil government / Henry David Thoreau
- Story-telling / George Eliot
- The crown of wild olive : preface / John Ruskin
- Milton / Matthew Arnold
- On the advisableness of improving natural knowledge / Thomas Henry Huxley
- Quis desiderio ...? / Samuel Butler
- The boys' ambition / Mark Twain
- Sandro Botticelli / Walter Pater
- Her own village / William Henry Hudson
- Letter to a young gentleman who proposes to embrace the career of art / Robert Lewis Stevenson
- On unknown people / Hilaire Belloc
- Going out for a walk / Sir Max Beerbohm
- Machines and the emotions / Bertrand Russell, Third Earl Russell
- On lying in bed / Gilbert Keith Chesteron
- Proust / Edward Morgan Forster
- Lives of the poets / Lytton Strachey
- Reflections on the drama / Henry Louis Mencken
- The mark on the wall / Virginia Woolf
- The sea beast / Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson
- Hymns in a man's life / David Herbert Lawrence
- Tradition and the individual talent / Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Travel / Freya Stark
- Water music / Aldous Huxley
- What should children tell parents? / James Thurber and Elwyn Brooks White
- Defoe's Great Britain / Edmund Blunden
- Seed corn and mistletoe / Bernard DeVoto
- North and south / George Orwell
- Beatrix Potter / Graham Greene
- Frying the flag / Lawrence Durrell
- The uncles / Laurie Lee
- Label by appointment / Paul Jennings.