The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... became quite the fashion . Through the medium of the subjective essay we have chatted in kindly everyday acquaintance with gruff , learned , and big- hearted Johnson , with clever , democratic Goldsmith , with aristocratic Burke , with ...
... became quite the fashion . Through the medium of the subjective essay we have chatted in kindly everyday acquaintance with gruff , learned , and big- hearted Johnson , with clever , democratic Goldsmith , with aristocratic Burke , with ...
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... became very popular in England in the early part of the seventeenth century , when the great Elizabethan period was drawing to its close and Puritan ascendancy was beginning to exercise an influ- ence on English life and thought . The ...
... became very popular in England in the early part of the seventeenth century , when the great Elizabethan period was drawing to its close and Puritan ascendancy was beginning to exercise an influ- ence on English life and thought . The ...
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... became insignificant . Its one great master among the inferior contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare , Ben Jonson , took his stand for " classic art , " and his school carried on his tradition through the confused and pessimistic ...
... became insignificant . Its one great master among the inferior contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare , Ben Jonson , took his stand for " classic art , " and his school carried on his tradition through the confused and pessimistic ...
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... became the literary dictator of his day and the hero of the greatest biography ever written , a hero whose daily living was simply the personal manifestation of his great writings , whose " good deeds were as many as his good sayings ...
... became the literary dictator of his day and the hero of the greatest biography ever written , a hero whose daily living was simply the personal manifestation of his great writings , whose " good deeds were as many as his good sayings ...
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... became a calling in London . The news - writer rambled from coffee - room to coffee - room , collecting reports , squeezed himself into the Sessions - House at old Bailey if there was an inter- esting trial , nay , perhaps , obtained ...
... became a calling in London . The news - writer rambled from coffee - room to coffee - room , collecting reports , squeezed himself into the Sessions - House at old Bailey if there was an inter- esting trial , nay , perhaps , obtained ...
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