The English Essay and Essayists

Addison admirable appeared Bacon beauty better Browne Carlyle character character-writers Charles Lamb charm Christ's Hospital Coleridge conception contemporaries criticism Defoe Edinburgh Edinburgh Review eighteenth century English essayist evidence excellent fact Garden of Cyrus genius gifts gives Goldsmith Hazlitt honour human humour Hunt illustration interest Jeffrey Johnson judgment Lamb Lamb's Leigh Hunt less literary literature lived London Magazine Macaulay Magazine Matthew Arnold merit mind moral nature never papers passage perhaps periodical essay philosophy piece poet poetry political popular praise principles prose qualities Quincey R. L. Stevenson Rambler reader reason Religio Medici religion remarkable Review satire says Scott seems sense sentence Shakespeare Southey Spectator spirit Steele Stevenson story style Swift taste Tatler Theophrastus things thought tion touch true truth Vicar of Wakefield vice volume Whig whole wholly wisdom words Wordsworth writings written wrote