The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... human nature , his negligence , his occasional obscurity , all are forgotten when we put down the book , because of the warm glow he has kindled in our imagination , because of the feeling that we have come to know and love a sincere ...
... human nature , his negligence , his occasional obscurity , all are forgotten when we put down the book , because of the warm glow he has kindled in our imagination , because of the feeling that we have come to know and love a sincere ...
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... humanity its sacred right to at least think its own thoughts . Hazlitt put the matter into a nutshell , thus : " The great merit of Montaigne then was , that he may be said to have been the first who had the courage to say as an author ...
... humanity its sacred right to at least think its own thoughts . Hazlitt put the matter into a nutshell , thus : " The great merit of Montaigne then was , that he may be said to have been the first who had the courage to say as an author ...
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... human relations only because of its fruits , to proclaim that it is what a man receives from his friends that matters , not what he gives to them . The author does not know that a person becomes better by a deed of unselfishness ; he ...
... human relations only because of its fruits , to proclaim that it is what a man receives from his friends that matters , not what he gives to them . The author does not know that a person becomes better by a deed of unselfishness ; he ...
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... human weakness . Jonson died in utter destitution , and , as is so often the case , his death heralded his way into fame . Our present interest in this writer , so conspicuously literary in his own day , is confined to his Timber , or ...
... human weakness . Jonson died in utter destitution , and , as is so often the case , his death heralded his way into fame . Our present interest in this writer , so conspicuously literary in his own day , is confined to his Timber , or ...
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... human perhaps than she who inspired the Divina Com- media , yet a Beatrice of an influence no less elusive and pervasively controlling . But Patmore , the tender , chiv- alrous man of the house , is not so gentle in his dealings with ...
... human perhaps than she who inspired the Divina Com- media , yet a Beatrice of an influence no less elusive and pervasively controlling . But Patmore , the tender , chiv- alrous man of the house , is not so gentle in his dealings with ...
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Addison aphoristic artist Bacon beauty Belloc Ben Jonson born Burke century character essay character writer Charles Warren Stoddard CHARLES WILLIAM BEEBE charm Château de Montaigne Chesterton child classic Daniel Defoe Defoe divine Doctor Johnson dramatist England English literature essayist expression fact faith familiar essay fashion Francis Thompson genius give glory H. L. Mencken heart heaven Howells human humor ideals imagination immortal inspired interest John Johnson Josh Billings Lamb language Leacock letter essay literary criticism literary essay live London lover manner Mark Twain Milton mind modern Montaigne moral mystic naturalist nature never passion perfect perhaps person philosophical poet poetry prose reader reason romanticism scientific scientist seems sense sentence short-story essay song soul spirit Stevenson style Swift tender things Thompson thought tion truth University wisdom wonder words writing