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

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