The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... fashion the child of his brain - thought for the soul and words for the body . Poetry is more imagina- tive than prose and is usually on a higher plane of thought , but with the admission of this difference - unless perhaps we accept ...
... fashion the child of his brain - thought for the soul and words for the body . Poetry is more imagina- tive than prose and is usually on a higher plane of thought , but with the admission of this difference - unless perhaps we accept ...
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... fashion his own pat- tern as directed by his subject matter and the working of his mind upon it . Without restricting the thought- process in any way , never molding his ideas to fit some desired form of expression , the prose writer ...
... fashion his own pat- tern as directed by his subject matter and the working of his mind upon it . Without restricting the thought- process in any way , never molding his ideas to fit some desired form of expression , the prose writer ...
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... 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 visionary ...
... 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 visionary ...
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... fashion , without contention , art , or study ; for it is myselfe I pourtray . · Thus , gentle reader , myselfe am the grounde- worke of my booke . " Montaigne did not write from any external necessity but only from sheer inner compul ...
... fashion , without contention , art , or study ; for it is myselfe I pourtray . · Thus , gentle reader , myselfe am the grounde- worke of my booke . " Montaigne did not write from any external necessity but only from sheer inner compul ...
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... Fashion ; one Man wears his Doub- let slashed , another laced , another plain ; but every Man has a Doublet : so every man has his Religion . We differ about Trimming . " If the play on words be pardonable , one may say that such a ...
... Fashion ; one Man wears his Doub- let slashed , another laced , another plain ; but every Man has a Doublet : so every man has his Religion . We differ about Trimming . " If the play on words be pardonable , one may say that such a ...
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