Essays of British Essayists Vol. I including biographical and critical sketches
Introduction by Chauncey C. Starkweather
- New York P.F. Collier & Son 1900
- 447 p.
- World's Greatest Literature .
Each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
Volume 1. Francis Bacon : Of seeming wise ; Of studies ; Of truth ; Of revenge ; Of envy ; Of love ; Of friendship ; Of youth and age ; Of simulation and dissimulation ; Of parents and children ; Of travel -- Robert Burton : Perturbation of the mind rectified ; remedies of all manner of discontents -- Sir Thomas Browne : Of toleration ; Of providence ; Of charity ; Of life -- Thomas Fuller : Of jesting ; Of self-praising ; Of company ; Of memory ; Of fancy -- John Milton : On education -- Abraham Cowley : Of solitude ; Of agriculture ; Of greatness ; Of myself -- Sir William Temple : Against excessive grief -- John Dryden : Of heroic plays -- John Locke : Of practice and habits ; Of principles ; Of prejudices ; Of observation ; Of reading ; Some thoughts concerning education -- Daniel Defoe : The instability of human glory ; Description of a quack doctor -- Jonathan Swift : On style ; The vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff -- Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury : The deity unfolded in his works -- Sir Richard Steele : A scene of domestic felicity ; A death-bed scene ; The trumpet club ; On the death of friends ; The spectator club ; The ugly club ; Sir Roger and the widow -- Joseph Addison : The character of Ned Softly ; Nicolini and the lions ; Fans ; Sir Roger at the Assizes ; The vision of Mirza ; The art of grinning ; Sir Roger at the abbey ; Sir Roger at the play ; The tory fox-hunter -- Alexander Pope : On dedications ; On epic poetry -- Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield : On passion -- Henry Fielding : The commonwealth of letters -- Samuel Johnson : The advantages of living in a garret ; Literary courage -- David Hume : Of the delicacy of taste and passion ; Of simplicity and refinement in writing ; Of refinement in the arts -- William Shenstone : A humorist ; On reserve ; An opinion of ghosts ; On writing and books -- Thomas Gray : On Norman Architecture ; On the philosophy of Lord Bolingbroke -- Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford : Change of style -- Oliver Goldsmith : National prejudice ; The man in black ; A club of authors ; Beau Tibbs ; A city night-piece -- Edmund Burke : On taste -- William Cowper : On conversation -- George Colman and Bonnell Thornton : The ocean of ink -- Henry Mackenzie : Extraordinary account of Robert Burns, the Ayrshire Ploughman -- Sydney Smith : Fallacies of anti-reformers -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge : On poesy or art -- Francis Jeffrey : Waverley, or 'tis sixty years since.