The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... beauty of prose writing . Though prose cannot make use of those external aids to beauty , the meter and rime of poetry , it has in common with its sister art rhythm and harmony of phrasing . The artist , whether in prose or poetry , has ...
... beauty of prose writing . Though prose cannot make use of those external aids to beauty , the meter and rime of poetry , it has in common with its sister art rhythm and harmony of phrasing . The artist , whether in prose or poetry , has ...
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... beauty , a beauty made more effective by a quality of return in the musi- cal and rounded links of rime . Prose , too , has its pat- tern and its symphonic rhythm , though its movement is much more direct , more forthright , than that ...
... beauty , a beauty made more effective by a quality of return in the musi- cal and rounded links of rime . Prose , too , has its pat- tern and its symphonic rhythm , though its movement is much more direct , more forthright , than that ...
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... beauty . Montaigne's very inconsistencies , -for he com- bined the principles of the Stoic with the practices of the Epicurean , his frivolity , his scandalously intimate glances into the weaknesses of our poor human nature , his ...
... beauty . Montaigne's very inconsistencies , -for he com- bined the principles of the Stoic with the practices of the Epicurean , his frivolity , his scandalously intimate glances into the weaknesses of our poor human nature , his ...
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... beauty - Divinity taking outlines and color -light upon the souls of men as the butterfly , image of the beatified spirit rising from the dust , soars from the shell that held a poor grub , which would never have found wings had not the ...
... beauty - Divinity taking outlines and color -light upon the souls of men as the butterfly , image of the beatified spirit rising from the dust , soars from the shell that held a poor grub , which would never have found wings had not the ...
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... beauty -which may be said to be pleasure visible — are without their highest perfection if they are without a touch of pathos . This touch , indeed , accrues naturally to profound pleasure and to great beauty by the mere fact of the ...
... beauty -which may be said to be pleasure visible — are without their highest perfection if they are without a touch of pathos . This touch , indeed , accrues naturally to profound pleasure and to great beauty by the mere fact of the ...
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