The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... 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 friend . Truly a pioneer in the world of thought , he 18 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH.
... 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 friend . Truly a pioneer in the world of thought , he 18 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH.
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... imaginative , fa- miliar and didactic , pathologically inquisitive and ten- derly amusing . With a remarkable power in fashioning analogies , with a very genius for propounding difficult riddles , he is forever furnishing food for ...
... imaginative , fa- miliar and didactic , pathologically inquisitive and ten- derly amusing . With a remarkable power in fashioning analogies , with a very genius for propounding difficult riddles , he is forever furnishing food for ...
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... imagination , he could handle the long sentence with a power rare in his day , and he was capable of genuine eloquence . There are few finer things in early literature than his apostrophe to the great city in The Seuen Deadly Sinnes of ...
... imagination , he could handle the long sentence with a power rare in his day , and he was capable of genuine eloquence . There are few finer things in early literature than his apostrophe to the great city in The Seuen Deadly Sinnes of ...
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... imagination ” surrendered in the face of cold , calculating reason , which defined , developed , and concluded . Besides these changes in inspiration , matter , and diction , there was a greater change in style . The " ill - digested ...
... imagination ” surrendered in the face of cold , calculating reason , which defined , developed , and concluded . Besides these changes in inspiration , matter , and diction , there was a greater change in style . The " ill - digested ...
Page 78
... imagination . " There are strength of pur- pose and power for securing abiding results even in his " idle sports of the imagination . " In the 78 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH.
... imagination . " There are strength of pur- pose and power for securing abiding results even in his " idle sports of the imagination . " In the 78 THE LITERARY ESSAY IN ENGLISH.
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