
The Hundred Best English Essays
Book - 1929
Publisher:
London : Cassell, 1929
Branch Call Number:
824.08/BIR
Additional Contributors:
Alternative Title:
Decay of the yeomanry / Hugh Latimer
A report of the truth of the fight betwixt the Revenge, one of her majesties shippes and an armada of the King of Spaine / Sir Walter Raleigh
Of gardens / Francis Bacon
On style / Ben Jonson
A fair and happy milkmaid / Thomas Overbury
The compleat angler / Izaak Walton
A childe / John Earle
Of women / Owen Feltham
Of providence and fortune / Thomas Browne
The good yeoman / Thomas Fuller
Care of our time / Jeremy Taylor
Of myself / Abraham Cowley
Bell-ringing and dancing. The poor women of Bedford and the Ranters / John Bunyan
Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Ben Jonson / John Dryden
Epsom again / Samuel Pepys
Of the creation of matter / Isaac Newton
The storm / Daniel Defoe
On sleeping in church / Jonathan Swift
Meditations in Westminster Abbey / Joseph Addison
The club / Richard Stelle
Affectation / Lord Chesterfield
The advantages of living in a garret / Samuel Johnson
The stoic ; or the Man of action and virtue / David Hume
Letter XXXV / Gilbert White
Discourse XV / Joshua Reynolds
Happiness / Oliver Goldsmith
On the loss of his son / Edmund Burke
The kissing candidate / William Cowper
Last years / Edward Gibbon
Of property / William Paley
Sterne / Sir Walter Scott
Scotland in 1798 / Sydney Smith
Recapitulation and summary of the characteristics of Shakespeare's dramas / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dream-children : a reverie / Charles Lamb
My first acquaintance with poets / William Hazlitt
George IV / Brougham Henry
The world of books / Leigh Hunt
Scott's den / John Gibson Lockhart
The diamond necklace / Thomas Carlyle
Pitt / Macaulay Thomas
The true gentleman defined / John Henry
Thoughts on poetry and its varieties / John Stuart Mill
Recapitulation and conclusion of "The origin of species" / Charles Robert Darwin
Macaulay / William Ewart Galdstone
A Jacobite family / John Brown
De Finibus / William M. Thackeray
Night walks / Charles Dickens
The Book of Job / James Anthony Froude
The crown of wild olives [preface] / John Ruskin
My winter-garden / Charles Kingsley
The mail coach / George Eliot
Manners and fashion / Herbert Spencer
The weaker vessel / Coventry Patmore
The coming of the friars / Augustus Jessopp
On science and art in relation to education / Thomas Henry Huxley
Carlyle's ethics / Leslie Stephen
The story of the unknown church / William Morris
On knowing what gives us pleasure / Samuel Butler
Mr. Swinburne's new poems / John Morley
The journal to Stella / Henry Austin Dobson
A wood wren at wells / William Henry Hudson
To Alexandre Dumas / Andrew Lang
Wild flowers / Richard Jefferies
Swinburne / Edmund Gosse
The lantern bearers / Robert Louis Stevenson
Alfred Lyttelton / Henry Asquith
Turgenev / Joseph Conrad
The soul of man under socialism / Oscar Wilde
The origin of romance / Sir Walter Raleigh
Sunday before the war / Arthur Clutton-Brock
On saying good-bye / Thomas Michael Kettle
Cromwell / The Earl of Rosebery
Carlyle / George Saintsbury
Science, religion and reality / Arthur Balfour
George Borrow / Augustine Birrell
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council / Viscount Haldane
What is the good of Greek? / John William MacKail
St. Paul / William Ralph Inge
The British character / George Santayana
Poetry and tradition / William Butler Yeats
Psycho-analysis of Karl Marx / Herbert George Wells
The writing of novels / Enoch Arnold Bennett
The late Mr. Alfred Chudder / George Slythe Street
Byron / James Louis Garvin
On the borders of Paris / Edward Verrall Lucas
The kingdom and nationality / Hugh Cecil
The mowing of a field / Hilaire Belloc
Hosts and guests / Max Beerbohm
Bach and Shakepeare / George Sampson
Painting as a pastime / Winston Spencer Churchill
A piece of chalk / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Bohemia / Desmond MacCarthy
Fear / Robert Lynd
Madame du Deffand / Giles Lytton Strachey
Fame after death / John Collings Squire
Fez / Philip Guedalla
Cricket fields and cricketers / Neville Cardus
Sir Thomas Overbury's "characters" / Charles Whibley
Deliverance / Oswald Barron
A report of the truth of the fight betwixt the Revenge, one of her majesties shippes and an armada of the King of Spaine / Sir Walter Raleigh
Of gardens / Francis Bacon
On style / Ben Jonson
A fair and happy milkmaid / Thomas Overbury
The compleat angler / Izaak Walton
A childe / John Earle
Of women / Owen Feltham
Of providence and fortune / Thomas Browne
The good yeoman / Thomas Fuller
Care of our time / Jeremy Taylor
Of myself / Abraham Cowley
Bell-ringing and dancing. The poor women of Bedford and the Ranters / John Bunyan
Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Ben Jonson / John Dryden
Epsom again / Samuel Pepys
Of the creation of matter / Isaac Newton
The storm / Daniel Defoe
On sleeping in church / Jonathan Swift
Meditations in Westminster Abbey / Joseph Addison
The club / Richard Stelle
Affectation / Lord Chesterfield
The advantages of living in a garret / Samuel Johnson
The stoic ; or the Man of action and virtue / David Hume
Letter XXXV / Gilbert White
Discourse XV / Joshua Reynolds
Happiness / Oliver Goldsmith
On the loss of his son / Edmund Burke
The kissing candidate / William Cowper
Last years / Edward Gibbon
Of property / William Paley
Sterne / Sir Walter Scott
Scotland in 1798 / Sydney Smith
Recapitulation and summary of the characteristics of Shakespeare's dramas / Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dream-children : a reverie / Charles Lamb
My first acquaintance with poets / William Hazlitt
George IV / Brougham Henry
The world of books / Leigh Hunt
Scott's den / John Gibson Lockhart
The diamond necklace / Thomas Carlyle
Pitt / Macaulay Thomas
The true gentleman defined / John Henry
Thoughts on poetry and its varieties / John Stuart Mill
Recapitulation and conclusion of "The origin of species" / Charles Robert Darwin
Macaulay / William Ewart Galdstone
A Jacobite family / John Brown
De Finibus / William M. Thackeray
Night walks / Charles Dickens
The Book of Job / James Anthony Froude
The crown of wild olives [preface] / John Ruskin
My winter-garden / Charles Kingsley
The mail coach / George Eliot
Manners and fashion / Herbert Spencer
The weaker vessel / Coventry Patmore
The coming of the friars / Augustus Jessopp
On science and art in relation to education / Thomas Henry Huxley
Carlyle's ethics / Leslie Stephen
The story of the unknown church / William Morris
On knowing what gives us pleasure / Samuel Butler
Mr. Swinburne's new poems / John Morley
The journal to Stella / Henry Austin Dobson
A wood wren at wells / William Henry Hudson
To Alexandre Dumas / Andrew Lang
Wild flowers / Richard Jefferies
Swinburne / Edmund Gosse
The lantern bearers / Robert Louis Stevenson
Alfred Lyttelton / Henry Asquith
Turgenev / Joseph Conrad
The soul of man under socialism / Oscar Wilde
The origin of romance / Sir Walter Raleigh
Sunday before the war / Arthur Clutton-Brock
On saying good-bye / Thomas Michael Kettle
Cromwell / The Earl of Rosebery
Carlyle / George Saintsbury
Science, religion and reality / Arthur Balfour
George Borrow / Augustine Birrell
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council / Viscount Haldane
What is the good of Greek? / John William MacKail
St. Paul / William Ralph Inge
The British character / George Santayana
Poetry and tradition / William Butler Yeats
Psycho-analysis of Karl Marx / Herbert George Wells
The writing of novels / Enoch Arnold Bennett
The late Mr. Alfred Chudder / George Slythe Street
Byron / James Louis Garvin
On the borders of Paris / Edward Verrall Lucas
The kingdom and nationality / Hugh Cecil
The mowing of a field / Hilaire Belloc
Hosts and guests / Max Beerbohm
Bach and Shakepeare / George Sampson
Painting as a pastime / Winston Spencer Churchill
A piece of chalk / Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Bohemia / Desmond MacCarthy
Fear / Robert Lynd
Madame du Deffand / Giles Lytton Strachey
Fame after death / John Collings Squire
Fez / Philip Guedalla
Cricket fields and cricketers / Neville Cardus
Sir Thomas Overbury's "characters" / Charles Whibley
Deliverance / Oswald Barron


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