The Oxford book of essays

A cknowledgements Introduction SIR FRANCIS BACON (1361-1626) Of Truth Of Revenge Of Boldness Of Innovations Of Masques and Triumphs SIR THOMAS OVERBURY (1381-1613) A Chambermaid A Pair and Happy Milkmaid JOHN EARLE (? l601-63) An Antiquary A Good Old Man A Pot-Poet OWEN FELLTHAM (? 160 2-68) How the Distempers of these Times should affect wise Mon SIR THOMAS BROWNE (1603-82) On Dreams THOMAS FULLER (1608-61) Of Anger SAMUEL BUTLER (1612-80) A Degenerate Noble JEREMY TAYLOR (1613-67) Of Charity, or the Love of God ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-67) Of Avarice JOHNDRYDEN (1631-1700) Chaucer(from Preface to the Fables) JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745) Good Manners and Good Breeding A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719) Thoughts in Westminster Abbey The Royal Exchange Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey Sir Roger at Vauxhall SIR RICHARD STEELE (1672-1720) On Recollections of Childhood LORDCHESTERFIELD (1604-1773) Upon Affectation BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-00) The Levee HENRY FIELDING (1707~ 4) The Poor and their Betters SAMUEL JOHNSON (1700-84) Dignity and Uses of Biography Conversation Debtors\\\" Prisons (i) Debtors\\\" Prisons (2) DAVID HUME (1711-76) Of the Dignity or Meanness of Human Nature OLIVER GOLDSMITH (? 173 0-74) On Dress A Little Great Man On National Prejudices JAMES BOSWELL (1740-3r) On War CHARLES LAMB (177~-1834) Dream Children From On Some of the Old Actors WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778-1830) On the Pleasure of Hating Brummelliana Getting Up on Cold Mornings THOMAS DE QUINCEY (178~-I8yq) The Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth THOMAS CARLYLE (I79r-1881) From Signs of the Times LORDMACAULAY (1800-rg) from Lord Clive SIR HENRY TAYLOR (1800-86) On Secrecy JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (l 801-90) Secular Knowledge not a Principle of Action RALPHWALDOEMERSON (1803-82) The Conservative NATHANIELHAWTHORNE (1804-62) The Haunted Mind JOHN STUART MILL (1806-73) \\\'Bentham and Coleridge\\\' (from Coleridge) CHARLES DICKENS (1812-70) City of London Churches WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY (1811-63) Autour de mon Chapeau ANTHONY TROLLOPE (ISIr-82) The Plumber HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-62) Night and Moonlight JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE (18 l 8-94) The Philosophy of Christianity GEORGE ELIOT (1810-80) Thomas Carlyle MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-88) Heine and the Philistines (From Heinrich Heine) T. H. HUXLEY (182~-3~) from Evolution and Ethics WALTERBAGEHOT (1826-77) Dull Government MARK RUTHERFORD (1831-1913) Talking about our Troubles SIR LES LIE STEPHEN (1832-1004) from Autobiography SAMUEL BUTLER (183~-1902) On Knowing what Gives us Pleasure MARK TWAIN (1835-62) Thoughts of God WALTER PATER (1839-94) Sandro Botticelli W. H. HUDSON (1841-\\\'922) Wasps AMBROSE BIERCE (l 842-? 1014) Disintroductions WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910) The Ph.D. Octopus HENRY JAMES (1843-19Ib) from London ALICE MEYNELL (1847-1922) Under the Early Stars RICHARD JEFFERIES (1848-87) The Acorn-Gatherer ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (18