The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... genius vital enough to make the essay a part of the very life of literature ; this little morganatic love with whom the princes of literary royalty dallied away delightful hours in half- shamed secrecy came to number among her offspring ...
... genius vital enough to make the essay a part of the very life of literature ; this little morganatic love with whom the princes of literary royalty dallied away delightful hours in half- shamed secrecy came to number among her offspring ...
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... genius and genuine love could not write a literary essay in English , to its present eminence , when it may use language which is in itself songful . We shall , more- ever , attempt to give an idea of the personality of the essayists ...
... genius and genuine love could not write a literary essay in English , to its present eminence , when it may use language which is in itself songful . We shall , more- ever , attempt to give an idea of the personality of the essayists ...
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... genius but also of his infinite capacity for taking pains and of his " playing the sedulous ape " zealously though prudently , for he understood perfectly that to imitate slavishly and to understand the methods by which results are ...
... genius but also of his infinite capacity for taking pains and of his " playing the sedulous ape " zealously though prudently , for he understood perfectly that to imitate slavishly and to understand the methods by which results are ...
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... genius for propounding difficult riddles , he is forever furnishing food for reflection that is worthy of Bacon . With all his humor Holmes was , like that wisest of Englishmen , ever aware of his own dignity and of the restraints of ...
... genius for propounding difficult riddles , he is forever furnishing food for reflection that is worthy of Bacon . With all his humor Holmes was , like that wisest of Englishmen , ever aware of his own dignity and of the restraints of ...
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... journeys just below the level upon which good straight prose travels , though at times his poetic genius carries him along above the level . Being one of those writers who keep notebooks full of 54 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH.
... journeys just below the level upon which good straight prose travels , though at times his poetic genius carries him along above the level . Being one of those writers who keep notebooks full of 54 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH.
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