A School of Life - Tapa blanda

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1855. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... POPULAR AUTHORS WHOSE WORKS ARE PUBLISHED BY TICKNOE AND FIELDS. THOMAS DE QUINCEY, 'THE ENGLISH OPIUM EATER.' CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. Contents : The Confessions -- Suspiria de Profundis. 1 vol. 16mo. 75 cents. BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS. Contents: Shakspeare -- Pope -- Lamb -- Goethe -- Schiller. 1 vol. 16mo. 75 cents. MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS. Contents : On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth -- Murder, Considered as one of the Fine Arts -- Second Paper on Murder -- Joan of Arc -- The English Mail-Coach -- The Vision of Sudden Death -- Dinner, Real and Reputed -- Orthographic Mutineers. 1 vol. 16mo. 75 cents. THE OffiSARS. 1 vol. 16mo. 76 cents. LITERARY REMINISCENCES. Contents : Literary Novitiate Sir Humphry Davy -- William Godwin -- Mrs. Grant -- Recollections of Charles Lamb -- Walladmor--Coleridge -- Wordsworth -- Southey--Recollections of Grasmere -- The Saracen's Head -- Society of the Lakes -- Charles Lloyd -- Walking Stewart -- Edward Irving -- Talfourd -- The London Magazine -- Junius -- Clare -- Cunningham-- Attack by a London Journal -- Duelling. 2 vols. 16mo. 11.60. NARRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. Contents: The Household Wreck --The Spanish Nun --Flight of a Tartar Tribe -- System of the Heavens as revealed by the Telescope -- Modern Superstition -- Coleridge and Opium-Eating -- Temperance Movement -- On War -- The Last Days of Immauuel Kant. 2 vols. 16mo. 91.50. THOMAS DE QUINCEY-continued. ESSAYS ON THE POETS AND OTHER ENGLISH WRITERS. Contents: The Poetry of Wordsworth -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Alexander Pope -- William Godwin--John Foster -- William Hazlitt -- Walter Savage Landor. 1 vol. l6mo. 75 cents. HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS. Contents : Philosophy of Roman History -- The Essenes -- Philosophy of...