The defense of poesy / Sir Philip Sindney. -- On Shokes Peare / Ben Jonson. -- On Bacon / Ben Jonson. -- Of Agriculture / Abraham Cowley. -- The vision of mirza / Joseph Addison. -- Westminster Abbey / Joseph Addison. -- The spectator club / Sir Richard Steele. -- Hints towards an essay on conversation / Jonathan Swift. -- A treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding / Johathan Swift. -- A letter of advice to a young poet / Jonathan Swift. -- On the Death of Esther Johnson /Stella/ / Jonathan Swift. -- The shortest-way the dissenters / Daniel Defoe. -- The education of women / Daniel Defoe. -- Life of Addison, 1672-1719 / Samuel Johnson. -- of the standard of taste / David Hume. -- Fallacies of anti-reformers / Sydney Smith. -- On poesy or art / Samuel Taylor Coleridge. -- Of persons one would wish to have seen / William Hazlitt. -- Degths of little children / Leigh Hunt. -- On the realities of imagination / Leigh Hunt. -- On the tragedies of Shakespeare / Charles Lamb. -- Levana and our ladies of sorrow / Thomas de Quincey. -- A defence of poetry / Percy Bysshe Shelly. -- Machiavelli / Tomas Babinaton Macaulay