A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of English Prose Style

A. C. McCLURG action admire Arthur Mainwaring beauty better body Boswell called character Charles Lamb church critic culture darkness David Garrick death disease divine dreams earth effect English essay expression father feel force Frederic Harrison Friedrich Schlegel genius give hand heart heaven human ideas intellectual Johnson labour lady less Levana literary literature live look man's manner matter Matthew Arnold means mind moral nature ness never night observe Oxford movement passion perfection person Philistines philosophy pleasure poet poetry prose prose poetry Protestantism Puritans Pyrrhonism Quincey reader reason religion Ruskin Sainte-Beuve scarcely Scriblerus club seems sense Sir Roger society soul speak spirit style sweetness and light tattler things thou thought tion true truth Uncon virtue waves whist whole wholly word writer young