The English Essay and EssayistsJ. M. Dent & sons Limited, 1923 - 343 pages |
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... appeared in 1566. Awdeley's booklet is little more than a curiosity . It is mainly a collection of de- finitions of the various classes of the tribe of vagabonds , with two or three short essays on the company of cozeners and shifters ...
... appeared in 1566. Awdeley's booklet is little more than a curiosity . It is mainly a collection of de- finitions of the various classes of the tribe of vagabonds , with two or three short essays on the company of cozeners and shifters ...
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... appearance of Gosson's essay , though not published till 1595 , proved that he was wrong . This is the only really good product of the controversy , the only critical piece of the sixteenth century which may still be read with pleasure ...
... appearance of Gosson's essay , though not published till 1595 , proved that he was wrong . This is the only really good product of the controversy , the only critical piece of the sixteenth century which may still be read with pleasure ...
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... appeared upon the title - page when he was in his grave- " the right noble , virtuous and learned Sir Philip Sidney , Knight . " Sidney will not stoop to the abuse in which Gosson and Lodge alike revel . Though it is fairly clear that ...
... appeared upon the title - page when he was in his grave- " the right noble , virtuous and learned Sir Philip Sidney , Knight . " Sidney will not stoop to the abuse in which Gosson and Lodge alike revel . Though it is fairly clear that ...
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... appeared seventeen years before the earliest of Bacon's . Bacon felt at once that the form was suitable to receive many thoughts of his own mind , and not merely his intellect but his whole disposition made such a form as that which ...
... appeared seventeen years before the earliest of Bacon's . Bacon felt at once that the form was suitable to receive many thoughts of his own mind , and not merely his intellect but his whole disposition made such a form as that which ...
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... appeared in the edition of 1625 , Macaulay illustrated what he calls the two styles of Bacon . The contrast is striking ; but the sound- ness of Macaulay's inference , that in Bacon the judgment had grown faster than the fancy , may ...
... appeared in the edition of 1625 , Macaulay illustrated what he calls the two styles of Bacon . The contrast is striking ; but the sound- ness of Macaulay's inference , that in Bacon the judgment had grown faster than the fancy , may ...
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