TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gross,John J.
TI  - The Oxford Book of Essays
SN  - 0192141856
AV  - PR1363 .O9 1991
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Oxford [England], New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English essays
KW  - American essays
KW  - Essais anglais
KW  - Essais am�ericains
KW  - Essays
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiv]-xviii); Of truth; Of revenge; Of boldness; Of innovations; Of masques and triumphs; Sir Francis Bacon --; A chambermaid; A fair and happy milkmaid; Sir Thomas Overbury --; An antiquary; A goold old man; A pot-poet; John Earle --; How the distempers of these times should affect wise men; Owen Felltham --; On dreams; Sir Thomas Browne --; Of anger; Thomas Fuller --; A degenerate noble; Samuel Butler --; Of charity, of the love of God; Jeremy Taylor --; Of avarice; Abraham Cowley --; "Cahucer"; (from Preface to the Fables) --; Good manners and good breeding; A meditation upon a broom-stick; Jonathan Swift --; Thoughts in Westminster Abbey; The Royal Exchange; Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey; Sir Roger at Vauxhall; Joseph Addison --; On recollections of childhood; Sir Richard Steele --; Upon affectation; Lord Chesterfield --; The levee; Benjamin Franklin --; The poor and their betters; Henry Fielding --; Dignity and uses of biography; Conversation; Debtors' prisons (1); Debtors' prisons (2); Samuel Johnson --; Of the dignity or meanness of human nature; David Hume --; On dress; A little great man; On national prejudices; Oliver Goldsmith --; On war; James Boswell --; Dream children; from On some of the old actors; Charles Lamb --; On the pleasure of hating; Brummelliana; William Hazlitt --; Getting up on cold mornings; Leigh Hunt --; The knocking at the gat in Macbeth; Thomas de Quincey --; from Signs of the times; Thomas Carlyle; from Lord Clive; Lord Macaulay --; On secrecy; Sir Henry Taylor --; Secular knowledge not a principle of action; John Henry Newman --; The conservative; Ralph Waldo Emerson --; The haunted mind; Nathaniel Hawthorne --; "Bentham and Coleridge"; (from Coleridge); John Stuart Mill --; City of London churches; Charles Dickens --; Autor de mon chapeau; William Makepeace Thackeray --; The plumber; Anthony Trollope --; Night and moonlight; Henry David Thoreau --; The philosophy of Christianity; James Anthony Froude --; Thomas Carlyle; George Eliot --; Heine and the Philistines; (from Heinrich Heine); Matthew Arnold --; from Evolution and ethics; T.H. Huxley --; Dull government; Walter Bagehot --; Talking about our troubles; Mark Rutherford --; from Autobiography; Sir Leslie Stephen --; On knowing what gives us pleasure; Samuel Butler --; Thoughts of God; Mark Twain --; Sandro Botticelli; Walter Pater --; Wasps; W.H. Hudson --; Disintroductions; Ambrose Bierce --; The Ph.D. octopus; William James --; from London; Henry James --; Under the early stars; Alice Meynell --; The acorn-gatherer; Richard Jefferies --; Aes triplex; Robert Louis Stevenson --; "the true critic"; (from The critic as artist); Oscar Wilde --; Sir George Grove; George Bernard Shaw --; The censor of plays; Joseph Conrad --; A visit to Walt Whitman; James G. Huneker --; William James; John Jay Chapman --; Intellectual ambition; Intuitive morality; George Santayana --; Cordova; Arthur Symons --; On the departure of a guest; Hilaire Belloc --; On being modern-minded; Bertrand Russel --; "A clergyman"; Sir Max Beerbohm --; The dream; Sir Winston Churchill --; A defence of Penny Dreadfuls; On sandals and simplicity; G.K. Chesterton --; Invective; Sir Desmond McCarthy --; My own centenary; E.M. Forster --; Creighton; Lytton Strachey --; The libido for the ugly; Funeral march; H.L. Mencken --; Evening parties; Rose Macaulay --; Harriette Wilson; The death of the moth; Virginia Woolf --; Finnegans wake; James Stephens --; The greatest Victorian; G.M. Young --; Insouciance; D.H. Lawrence --; What there is to see at the zoo; Marianne Moore --; Marie Lloyd; T.S. Eliot --; Symmetry and repitition; Sir Lewis Namier --; The necessary enemy; Katherine Anne Porter --; The sterner sex; Rebecca West --; The colloid and the crystal; Joseph Wood Krutch --; On being the; About myself; E.B. White --; Our half-Hogarth; V.S. Pritchett --; The ant-lion; Cyril Connolly --; Reflections on Gandhi; George Orwell --; Well-informed circles ... and how to move in them; Evelyn Waugh --; The lost childhood; Graham Greene --; Adams at ease; Lionel Trilling --; A new Westminster; Sir John Betjeman --; The faces of Buddha; Sir William Empson --; The snout; Loren Eiseley --; What if--? : English versus German and French; Jacques Barzun --; In search of Nib-Joy; Maurice Richardson --; Young hunger; M.F.K. Fisher --; Churchill and Roosevelt; (from Winston Churchill in 1940); Sir Isaiah Berlin --; To err is human; Lewis Thomas --; Bad poets; Randall Jarrell --; Thomas Hobbes; H.R. Trevor-Roper --; The apotheosis of Martin Luther King; Elizabeth Hardwick --; The gangster as tragic hero; Robert Warshow --; The Homburg hat; Richard Cobb --; The people's victor; Conor Cruise O'Brien --; Movies on television; Pauline Kael --; The marquis and the madame; D.J. Enright --; The savage seventh; Philip Larkin --; The crisp at the crossroads; Reyner Banham --; Stranger in the village; James Baldwin --; Robert Graves and the twelve Caesars; Gore Vidal --; La Paz; Jan Morris --; A visit from royalty; Dan Jacobson --; Is it alas, Yorick?; P.J. Kavanagh --; Columbus and Crusoe; V.S. Naipaul --; The bankrupt man; John Updike --; At the dam; Joan Didion --; About face; Joseph Epstein --; A blizzard of tiny kisses; Clive James
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