Great English Essays: From Bacon to Chesterton Book

	Of Love [Essays, 1612]	1
	Of Cunning [Essays, 1612]	3
	Of Ambition [Essays, 1612]	6
	Of Gardens [Essays, 1612]	8
	The Good Schoolmaster [The Holy and Profane State, 1642] [CEE]	13
	Of Dreams [Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, 1661] [EP]	16
	Of Myself [Discourses by Way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, 1668]	18
	A Meditation Upon a Broomstick, According to the Style and Manner of the Hon. Robert Boyle's Meditations [1704] [CEE]	23
	A Modest Proposal [1729] [The Works of Jonathan Swift, 1851]	25
	Sir Roger de Coverley at Spring-Garden [The Spectator, No. 383, May 20, 1712]	32
	The Tory Fox-Hunter [The Freeholder, No. 22, March 5, 1716] [SEE]	35
	Meditations in Westminster Abbey [The Spectator, No. 26, March 30, 1711]	39
	Jack Lizard [The Guardian, No. 24, April 8, 1713] [CEE]	42
	Recollections of Childhood [The Tatler, No. 181, June 6, 1710]	46
	Dick Minim the Critic [Parts 1-2] [The Idler, Nos. 60-61, June 9 and June 16, 1759] [EP]	49
	Spring [The Rambler, No. 5, April 3, 1750]	55
	Art Connoisseurs [The Idler, No. 76, 1759] [EPMR]	59
	The Character of an Important Trifler, Beau Tibbs [The Public Ledger, July 2, 1760]	62
	The Character of the Trifler Continued: with That of His Wife, His House, and Furniture [The Public Ledger, August 1, 1760]	65
	National Prejudice [The Citizen of the World, 1762] [EPMR]	68
	Passionate Love [The Hypochondriack, No. 11, London Magazine, August 1778]	71
	Parents and Their Children [The Hypochondriack, No. 45, London Magazine, June 1781]	76
	Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist [London Magazine, 1821; Essays of Elia, 1823] [SEE]	80
	A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People [The Reflector, ca. 1811-1812; Essays of Elia, 1823] [SEE]	86
	The Superannuated Man [The Last Essays of Elia, 1833]	92
	Old China [London Magazine, 1823; The Last Essays of Elia, 1833] [CEE]	98
	On Familiar Style [Table-Talk, or Original Essays, 1822]	103
	On Going a Journey [January 1822; Table-Talk, or Original Essays, 1822]	109
	A Few Thoughts on Sleep [The Indicator, 1834]	118
	Getting Up on Cold Mornings [The Indicator, 1834]	123
	Tunbridge Toys [The Roundabout Papers, 1863]	126
	Lying Awake [Household Words, October 30, 1852]	131
	A Walk in a Wood [Good Words, September 1879]	137
	The Clouds Are There [Modern Painters, IV, 1856-1860]	147
	Personal Style [Essays Speculative and Suggestive, 1890]	150
	Her Own Village [A Traveller in Little Things, 1921]	155
	Dandy: A Story of a Dog [A Traveller in Little Things, 1921]	159
	Fellow Travellers with a Bird [Essays, 1916]	163
	The Unready [Essays, 1916]	168
	The July Grass [Field and Hedgerow, 1888]	171
	Book-Buying [Obiter Dicta, 1894]	174
	Notes on the Movements of Young Children [1874] [Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson]	177
	On Pleasure Bent [November 20, 1897] [Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw]	181
	A Defence of Skeletons [The Defendant, 1901]	186
	A Defence of Nonsense [The Defendant, 1901]	189
	Twelve Men [Tremendous Trifles, 1909]	193
	Hours in a Library [TLS, November 30, 1916]	196
	Adolf [The Dial, September 1920]	202