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A Century of English Essays

by Ernest Rhys and Lloyd Vaughan

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2A Printer's Prologue
  3. 3Dame Prudence on Riches
  4. 4Of Painting the Face
  5. 5Hamlet's Advice to the Players
  6. 6Of Adversity
  7. 7Of Travel
  8. 8Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
  9. 9Of Ambition
  10. 10Of Gardens
  11. 11Of Studies
  12. 12The Good Schoolmaster
  13. 13On Death
  14. 14Of Winter
  15. 15How a Gallant Should Behave Himself in a Play-House
  16. 16Of Myself
  17. 17The Grand Elixir
  18. 18Jack Lizard
  19. 19A Meditation upon a Broomstick, According to the Style and Manner o…
  20. 20Pulpit Eloquence
  21. 21The Art of Political Lying
  22. 22A Rural Ride
  23. 23The Man in Black
  24. 24Old Maids and Bachelors
  25. 25The Important Trifler
  26. 26The Trifler's Household
  27. 27Westminster Hall
  28. 28The Little Beau
  29. 29The Club
  30. 30The Meeting of the Club
  31. 31Sir Roger at Home (1)
  32. 32Sir Roger at Home (2)
  33. 33Sir Roger at Home (3)
  34. 34Sir Roger at Home (4)
  35. 35Sir Roger at Church
  36. 36Sir Roger on the Widow
  37. 37Sir Roger in the Hunting Field
  38. 38Sir Roger at the Assizes
  39. 39Gipsies
  40. 40Witches
  41. 41Sir Roger at Westminster Abbey
  42. 42Sir Roger at the Play
  43. 43Sir Roger at Spring-Garden
  44. 44Death of Sir Roger
  45. 45A Stage-Coach Journey
  46. 46A Journey from Richmond
  47. 47A Prize Fight
  48. 48Good Temper
  49. 49The Employments of a Housewife in the Country
  50. 50The Stage Coach
  51. 51The Scholar's Complaint of His Own Bashfulness
  52. 52The Misery of a Modish Lady in Solitude
  53. 53The History of an Adventurer in Lotteries
  54. 54Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
  55. 55All Fools' Day
  56. 56Witches, and Other Night-Fears
  57. 57My First Play
  58. 58Dream-Children; A Reverie
  59. 59The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers
  60. 60A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
  61. 61Poor Relations
  62. 62The Child Angel
  63. 63Old China
  64. 64Popular Fallacies
  65. 65Whitsun-Eve
  66. 66On Going a Journey
  67. 67On Living to One's-Self
  68. 68Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen
  69. 69On a Sun-Dial
  70. 70Of the Feeling of Immortality in Youth
  71. 71A Vision
  72. 72Upon Epitaphs
  73. 73Jeems the Doorkeeper
  74. 74On Life
  75. 75Walking Stewart
  76. 76On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
  77. 77The Daughter of Lebanon
  78. 78Getting Up on Cold Mornings
  79. 79The Old Gentleman
  80. 80The Old Lady
  81. 81The Maid-Servant
  82. 82Characteristics
  83. 83Tunbridge Toys
  84. 84Night Walks
  85. 85"A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured"
  86. 86The July Grass
  87. 87Worn-Out Types
  88. 88Book-Buying
  89. 89The Whole Duty of Woman
  90. 90Steele's Letters
  91. 91A Defence of Nonsense
  92. 92The Colour of Life
  93. 93A Funeral
  94. 94Fires
  95. 95The Last Gleeman
  96. 96A Brother of St. Francis
  97. 97The Pilgrims' Way
  98. 98On a Great Wind

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