The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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Page 17
... live , one day to make him ashamed and blush at himselfe . " If Montaigne did not live to blush for himself , his readers , at least , have blushed for him . He is at times frankly lascivious , though never failing to write in a ...
... live , one day to make him ashamed and blush at himselfe . " If Montaigne did not live to blush for himself , his readers , at least , have blushed for him . He is at times frankly lascivious , though never failing to write in a ...
Page 23
... , let us , who live in these days when English literary art is , as Thompson predicts , in danger of " dwindling to the extinction of unendurable excellence , " beware lest we be tempted to put on the monocle of superiority 23.
... , let us , who live in these days when English literary art is , as Thompson predicts , in danger of " dwindling to the extinction of unendurable excellence , " beware lest we be tempted to put on the monocle of superiority 23.
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... live there . Sometimes it asks the reader the embarrassing question " Is this not you ? " which question is the sure guaranty of literary immor- tality . The character essay being a bit of human nature made concrete has themes that are ...
... live there . Sometimes it asks the reader the embarrassing question " Is this not you ? " which question is the sure guaranty of literary immor- tality . The character essay being a bit of human nature made concrete has themes that are ...
Page 72
... live , were to dye . Since our longest sunne sets at right descensions , and makes but winter arches , and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darknesse , and have our light in ashes . Since the brother of death daily ...
... live , were to dye . Since our longest sunne sets at right descensions , and makes but winter arches , and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darknesse , and have our light in ashes . Since the brother of death daily ...
Page 73
... of Charles II , who , during his exile , had enlisted Cowley's sympathy . In all the writ- ings of this born essayist there is the genuine English idiom made into a live , flowing melody of composition THE CLASSIC ESSAY 73.
... of Charles II , who , during his exile , had enlisted Cowley's sympathy . In all the writ- ings of this born essayist there is the genuine English idiom made into a live , flowing melody of composition THE CLASSIC ESSAY 73.
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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