The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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Page 19
... John Florio , who , despite quaint spelling and stilted diction , has preserved in his translation of the essays a spirit and a style which savor strongly of the Frenchman . THE ESSAY SINCE MONTAIGNE The publication of the Baconian Book ...
... John Florio , who , despite quaint spelling and stilted diction , has preserved in his translation of the essays a spirit and a style which savor strongly of the Frenchman . THE ESSAY SINCE MONTAIGNE The publication of the Baconian Book ...
Page 20
... John Dryden developed a new type , devoted to literary criticism . During this century there came into being also the classic essay , whose greatest masters bring it down the years even to our own day . Then the short - story essay was ...
... John Dryden developed a new type , devoted to literary criticism . During this century there came into being also the classic essay , whose greatest masters bring it down the years even to our own day . Then the short - story essay was ...
Page 37
... JOHN SELDEN ( 1584-1654 ) The remarkable book of essays , Table - Talk , written by John Selden and edited and published by Richard Milward about thirty years after the death of its author , deserves a place among aphoristic writings ...
... JOHN SELDEN ( 1584-1654 ) The remarkable book of essays , Table - Talk , written by John Selden and edited and published by Richard Milward about thirty years after the death of its author , deserves a place among aphoristic writings ...
Page 49
... John Lyly had planted among the flowers in the field of Eng- lish prose the weedy growth that bears his name , only to make those flowers seem more richly natural by con- trast to the ornate foliage , the tiresome blossoming into odd ...
... John Lyly had planted among the flowers in the field of Eng- lish prose the weedy growth that bears his name , only to make those flowers seem more richly natural by con- trast to the ornate foliage , the tiresome blossoming into odd ...
Page 51
... John Awdeley , a printer , brought out a curious little collec- tion of definitions or embryo essays called Fraternity of Vagabonds . Then , in 1566 , Thomas Harman pub- lished a volume of essays , Caveat , or Warning for Com- mon ...
... John Awdeley , a printer , brought out a curious little collec- tion of definitions or embryo essays called Fraternity of Vagabonds . Then , in 1566 , Thomas Harman pub- lished a volume of essays , Caveat , or Warning for Com- mon ...
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