The English Essay and Essayists, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1915 - 343 pages |
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Page 82
... Stevenson . To have taken one of the longest steps towards this result is perhaps Cowley's best title to fame . The whole of Cowley's prose would fill but a very slender volume . It was his misfortune to live in an age of civil con ...
... Stevenson . To have taken one of the longest steps towards this result is perhaps Cowley's best title to fame . The whole of Cowley's prose would fill but a very slender volume . It was his misfortune to live in an age of civil con ...
Page 249
... Stevenson no doubt had in mind when he wrote The Suicide Club . De Quincey's essay has suffered at the hands of time , and will hardly be read now with the enthusiastic admiration it once inspired . The gruesome but impressive ...
... Stevenson no doubt had in mind when he wrote The Suicide Club . De Quincey's essay has suffered at the hands of time , and will hardly be read now with the enthusiastic admiration it once inspired . The gruesome but impressive ...
Page 251
... Stevenson found great comfort in the name Jehovah Tsidkenu , when he knew nothing about its meaning . Still , for most men , sound has to be supported by sense , and there must be a reasonable proportion between the one and the other ...
... Stevenson found great comfort in the name Jehovah Tsidkenu , when he knew nothing about its meaning . Still , for most men , sound has to be supported by sense , and there must be a reasonable proportion between the one and the other ...
Page 285
... Stevenson ( 1850-1894 ) ; while in a lower rank within the same group may be placed Sir John Skelton ( 1831-1897 ) and A. K. H. Boyd ( 1825-1899 ) . Alexander Smith has had singularly ill fortune both as poet and as writer of prose ...
... Stevenson ( 1850-1894 ) ; while in a lower rank within the same group may be placed Sir John Skelton ( 1831-1897 ) and A. K. H. Boyd ( 1825-1899 ) . Alexander Smith has had singularly ill fortune both as poet and as writer of prose ...
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... Stevenson stands on a very much higher plane . Since Lamb there has been no more accomplished essayist than he . Nature made him an essayist , and he co - operated with nature , developing and strengthening the gifts with which he was ...
... Stevenson stands on a very much higher plane . Since Lamb there has been no more accomplished essayist than he . Nature made him an essayist , and he co - operated with nature , developing and strengthening the gifts with which he was ...
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