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Prose masterpieces from modern essayists : comprising twelve unabridged essays

Publication date: 1896

Topics: English essays, English essays, Essayists -- Portraits

Publisher: London : Bickers & Son, 1 Leicester Square

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

395 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : 22 cm

Includes 11 woodburytypes and 1 collotype

The mutability of literature / by Washington Irving -- Imperfect sympathies / by Charles Lamb -- Conversation / by Thomas De Quincey -- Compensation / by Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Sweetness and light / by Matthew Arnold -- On popular culture / by John Morley -- On a certain condescension in foreigners / by James Russell Lowell -- On history / by Thomas Carlyle -- History / by Thomas Babington Macaulay -- The science of history / by James Anthony Froude -- Race and language / by Edward A. Freeman -- Kin beyond sea / by William Ewart Gladstone