The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... cause growing - pains . As the epicure inquires with relish into the ingredients of a new and delectable dish , so does the interested reader learn to consider the meaning and relations of new words as veritable titbits for pleasant ...
... cause growing - pains . As the epicure inquires with relish into the ingredients of a new and delectable dish , so does the interested reader learn to consider the meaning and relations of new words as veritable titbits for pleasant ...
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... how to paragraph the young writer should have recourse to the more modern authors , be- cause custom has changed in regard to paragraphing , and there must ever be care for good usage . 12 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH.
... how to paragraph the young writer should have recourse to the more modern authors , be- cause custom has changed in regard to paragraphing , and there must ever be care for good usage . 12 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH.
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... cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes , set down rather sig- nificantly than curiously , which I have called Essays . The word is late , but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius , if you mark ...
... cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes , set down rather sig- nificantly than curiously , which I have called Essays . The word is late , but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius , if you mark ...
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... cause of its historical position and its author's views of the essay . " I hold neither Plutarch's , nor any of those ancient short manner of writings , nor Montaigne's , nor such of this latter time to be rightly termed Essays , for ...
... cause of its historical position and its author's views of the essay . " I hold neither Plutarch's , nor any of those ancient short manner of writings , nor Montaigne's , nor such of this latter time to be rightly termed Essays , for ...
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... causes many of his readers to consider the essays fragmentary . Francis Thomp- son , to whom he was the Jonathan of another David , denies that any such weakness mars the composition of his friend . " It might as well be said that the ...
... causes many of his readers to consider the essays fragmentary . Francis Thomp- son , to whom he was the Jonathan of another David , denies that any such weakness mars the composition of his friend . " It might as well be said that the ...
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