The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... later and lyric stage . Most objective essays are scientific and didactic . The purely scientific treatise , which concerns itself solely with the exposition of scientific theory , is not literary and has no place in our study , though ...
... later and lyric stage . Most objective essays are scientific and didactic . The purely scientific treatise , which concerns itself solely with the exposition of scientific theory , is not literary and has no place in our study , though ...
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... later became quite the 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 ...
... later became quite the 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 ...
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... later , defined and perfected the mod- ern short story . Turning from the impersonal , disser- tational style of writing then the standard , and giving to the essay personality and easy , natural , desultory style , he made of it the ...
... later , defined and perfected the mod- ern short story . Turning from the impersonal , disser- tational style of writing then the standard , and giving to the essay personality and easy , natural , desultory style , he made of it the ...
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... Later , after becoming one of the queen's Learned Counsel , he won just opprobrium by conducting the prosecution of his friend and benefactor , the Earl of Essex , for certain offenses which in their very commission had been known to be ...
... Later , after becoming one of the queen's Learned Counsel , he won just opprobrium by conducting the prosecution of his friend and benefactor , the Earl of Essex , for certain offenses which in their very commission had been known to be ...
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... later ones there is room for connecting clauses , for figurative language , and for a notable addition of warmth and color . How fine is the casting of the thought in " Virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are ...
... later ones there is room for connecting clauses , for figurative language , and for a notable addition of warmth and color . How fine is the casting of the thought in " Virtue is like precious odours , most fragrant when they are ...
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