Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American

Eliot

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Eliot · 36 chapters

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• Success came to Thackeray very slowly.

• Success came to Thackeray very slowly.

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• INTRODUCTORY NOTESample
• JONATHAN SWIFT[1] BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
• INTRODUCTORY NOTE
• THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY I. WHAT IS A UNIVERSITY?
• II. SITE OF A UNIVERSITY
• III. UNIVERSITY LIFE AT ATHENS
• INTRODUCTORY NOTE
• THE STUDY OF POETRY[1]
• Fragment of Homer's Iliad [3]
• Fragment of Homer's Iliad [5]
• INTRODUCTORY NOTE
• LECTURE I—SESAME OF KINGS' TREASURIES[1]
• SESAME AND LILIES LECTURE—II—LILIES[1] OF QUEENS' GARDENS.
• JOHN MILTON[1] (1859)
• SCIENCE AND CULTURE[1]
• INTRODUCTORY NOTE
• RACE AND LANGUAGE[1]
• INTRODUCTORY NOTE
• TRUTH OF INTERCOURSE
• SAMUEL PEPYS
• THE DIARY
• A LIBERAL GENIUS
• RESPECTABILITY
• INTRODUCTORY NOTE
• INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
• ON THE ELEVATION OF THE LABORING CLASSES
• LECTURE II
• INTRODUCTORY NOTE
• THE POETIC PRINCIPLE
• INTRODUCTORY NOTE
• WALKING [1862]
• THE OLD MARLBOROUGH ROAD
• INTRODUCTORY NOTE
• ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1864-1865
• INAUGURAL ADDRESS ON ASSUMING THE PRESIDENCY OF THE BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND INSTITUTE, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, 6 OCTOBER, 1884