The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... literature is the study of the literature itself , that the essays of the masters will be by far their own best recommendation and amplest reward to whoever will make acquaintance with them . The chapters present a goodly store of ...
... literature is the study of the literature itself , that the essays of the masters will be by far their own best recommendation and amplest reward to whoever will make acquaintance with them . The chapters present a goodly store of ...
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... literature has not received in the English program of most colleges either the kind or the amount of attention it deserves , with the result that this species of literature is in comparison to some other species a practically unknown ...
... literature has not received in the English program of most colleges either the kind or the amount of attention it deserves , with the result that this species of literature is in comparison to some other species a practically unknown ...
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... literature should not be a real relief from the academic grind involved in other subjects . If the essay especially be ap- proached in the manner and in the mood so well illus- trated in this book , the study should be for both students ...
... literature should not be a real relief from the academic grind involved in other subjects . If the essay especially be ap- proached in the manner and in the mood so well illus- trated in this book , the study should be for both students ...
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... literature with all the liberties of the literary , gives us a certain liberty in our study of it . The particu- lar difficulty in defining the essay is to avoid both a definition so general as to include all prose writings not strictly ...
... literature with all the liberties of the literary , gives us a certain liberty in our study of it . The particu- lar difficulty in defining the essay is to avoid both a definition so general as to include all prose writings not strictly ...
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... literature the term " literary " denotes artistic perfection according to kind ; applied in a re- stricted use to the lyric in poetry and to the personal essay in prose , it may be interpreted to mean not only this perfection of kind ...
... literature the term " literary " denotes artistic perfection according to kind ; applied in a re- stricted use to the lyric in poetry and to the personal essay in prose , it may be interpreted to mean not only this perfection of kind ...
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