Essays: English and American. 1909–14. Vol. 28. The Harvard Classics

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We hug the earth,—how rarely we mount! Methinks we might elevate ourselves a little more. We might climb a tree, at least.

—Walking

Henry David
Thoreau

Harvard Classics, Vol. 28

Essays

English and American

The dozen nineteenth-century authors anthologized in this volume include the great English prose artists Arnold and Ruskin and the American cultural heroes Thoreau and Lowell. Their subjects range from personal biographies on Milton, Swift and Lincoln to topical musings on education, philosophy and literature.

CONTENTS

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NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Introductory Note; Jonathan Swift
John Henry Newman: Introductory Note; The Idea of a University; I. What Is a University?; II. Site of a University; III. University Life at Athens
Matthew Arnold: Introductory Note; The Study of Poetry
John Ruskin: Introductory Note; Sesame and Lilies; Lecture I.—Sesame: Of Kings’ Treasuries; Lecture II.—Lilies: Of Queens’ Gardens
Walter Bagehot: Introductory Note; John Milton (1859)
Thomas Henry Huxley: Introductory Note; Science and Culture
Edward Augustus Freeman: Introductory Note; Race and Language
Robert Louis Stevenson: Introductory Note; Truth of Intercourse; Samuel Pepys
William Ellery Channing: Introductory Note
On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes: Introductory Remarks; Lecture I; Lecture II
Edgar Allan Poe: Introductory Note; The Poetic Principle
Henry David Thoreau: Introductory Note; Walking [1862]
James Russell Lowell: Introductory Note; Abraham Lincoln, 1864–1865; Democracy

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