Extract from Thomas Wilson's Art of rhetoric, 1554.
Sir Philip Sidney's Letter to his brother Robert, 1580.
Extract from Francis Mere's Palladis Tamia, 1596.
Dryden's Dedicatory epistle to the rival ladies, 1664.
Sir Robert Howard's Preface to four new plays, 1665.
Dryden's Essay of dramatic poesy, 1668.
Extract from Thomas Ellwood's History of himself, describing his relations with Milton, 1713.
Bishop Copleston's Advice to a young reviewer, 1807.
The Bickerstaff and Partridge tracts, 1708.
Gay's Present state of wit, 1711.
Tickell's Life of Addison, 1721.
Steele's Dedicatory epistle to Congreve, 1722.
Extract from Chamberlayne's Angliae notitia, 1669.
Eachard's Grounds and occasions of the contempt of the clergy and of religion, 1670.
Bickerstaff's Miseries of the domestic chaplain, 1710.
Franklin's Poor Richard Improved, 1757.
