The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... interest of the reader , which by some psy- chological process is refreshed and increased at the be- ginning of every new paragraph , and which is wearied by the continuous strain of unbroken sentences . For assistance in learning how ...
... interest of the reader , which by some psy- chological process is refreshed and increased at the be- ginning of every new paragraph , and which is wearied by the continuous strain of unbroken sentences . For assistance in learning how ...
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... interest in this writer , so conspicuously literary in his own day , is confined to his Timber , or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter , a collection of short essays published in 1641. Outwardly the col- lection seems to be made up of ...
... interest in this writer , so conspicuously literary in his own day , is confined to his Timber , or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter , a collection of short essays published in 1641. Outwardly the col- lection seems to be made up of ...
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... interest only be- cause of its historical position and its author's views of the essay . " I hold neither Plutarch's , nor any of those ancient short manner of writings , nor Montaigne's , nor such of this latter time to be rightly ...
... interest only be- cause of its historical position and its author's views of the essay . " I hold neither Plutarch's , nor any of those ancient short manner of writings , nor Montaigne's , nor such of this latter time to be rightly ...
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... interest the mind of the truly learned . COVENTRY PATMORE ( 1823-1896 ) Long before the soul of this mystic , ecstatic with divine love , had left his body - so tenderly described by him as a " little sequestered pleasure - house for ...
... interest the mind of the truly learned . COVENTRY PATMORE ( 1823-1896 ) Long before the soul of this mystic , ecstatic with divine love , had left his body - so tenderly described by him as a " little sequestered pleasure - house for ...
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... of their own making . Interest in char- actery had been given a new impetus when , in 1592 , Casaubon published a translation of Theophrastus's Characters , and Bacon furnished the means to the end THE CHARACTER ESSAY 49.
... of their own making . Interest in char- actery had been given a new impetus when , in 1592 , Casaubon published a translation of Theophrastus's Characters , and Bacon furnished the means to the end THE CHARACTER ESSAY 49.
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