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Essayists past and present, a selection of English essays
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- edited, with an introduction and notes, by J. B. Priestley
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- New York : Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial press, 1925
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- 319 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm
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- ocm03014919
- Introduction.--Richard Steele: On domestic felicity. Recollections of childhood. Of the club.--Joseph Addison: Sir Roger at church. Sir Roger at the theatre. Death of Sir Roger de Coverley.--Jonathan Swift: A country visit. A meditation upon a broomstick.--Samuel Johnson: A journey in a stage coach.--Oliver Goldsmith: Beau Tibbs (1) Beau Tibbs (2)--Charles Lamb: Old china. Captain Jackson. Imperfect sympathies.--William Hazlitt: Merry England. The fight.--Leigh Hunt: Getting up on cold mornings. The old gentleman.--William Makepeace Thackeray: De unibus.--Alexander Smith: A lark's flight.--Robert Louis Stevenson: The lantern bearers.--E. V. Lucas: "My cousin, the bookbinder."--Hilaire Belloc: The mowing of a field.--G. K. Chesterton: A piece of chalk.--Robert Lynd: The shy fathers.--Notes