The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... effect for which it is intended . There is no gainsaying the fact that well - nigh the total of the teaching in the schools is , of more or less necessity , a persevering persecution of the students through all the youthful years of ...
... effect for which it is intended . There is no gainsaying the fact that well - nigh the total of the teaching in the schools is , of more or less necessity , a persevering persecution of the students through all the youthful years of ...
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... effect which we term " atmosphere . " Reading an essay is like taking a stroll in the woods when tired . In the one case nature com- muning with us lightens the burden of world - weariness that weighs upon us at times ; in the other we ...
... effect which we term " atmosphere . " Reading an essay is like taking a stroll in the woods when tired . In the one case nature com- muning with us lightens the burden of world - weariness that weighs upon us at times ; in the other we ...
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... effect is its 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 ...
... effect is its 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 ...
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... effect of conscious strength , he was , probably , led to do so by the richness , truth , and force of his own observations on books and men . He was , in the truest sense , a man of original mind , that is , he had the power of looking ...
... effect of conscious strength , he was , probably , led to do so by the richness , truth , and force of his own observations on books and men . He was , in the truest sense , a man of original mind , that is , he had the power of looking ...
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... effects from wit , -all the prismatic colors , -but never the object as it is in fair daylight . A pun , which is a kind of wit , is a different and much shallower trick in mental optics ; throwing the shadows of two objects so that one ...
... effects from wit , -all the prismatic colors , -but never the object as it is in fair daylight . A pun , which is a kind of wit , is a different and much shallower trick in mental optics ; throwing the shadows of two objects so that one ...
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