The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... lover of the essay , glorying in the freedom of the essayist's regenerated soul , shuns the fellowship of the mere rhetorician with his categorical definitions . The modern scholar with his definitely pigeonholed knowledge of literary ...
... lover of the essay , glorying in the freedom of the essayist's regenerated soul , shuns the fellowship of the mere rhetorician with his categorical definitions . The modern scholar with his definitely pigeonholed knowledge of literary ...
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... lover of his own books as to claim that a twig from one of his nerves ran to every one of them . With a personality as soothing and yet invigorating as a vernal breeze , this endearing man held up the mirror to himself in his writings ...
... lover of his own books as to claim that a twig from one of his nerves ran to every one of them . With a personality as soothing and yet invigorating as a vernal breeze , this endearing man held up the mirror to himself in his writings ...
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... lover of the Divine , flying from peak to peak of mystic ecstasy , blinks and cries in the face of the unshadowed sun , " I cannot see ! " Coventry Patmore journeyed all the way from arro- gant agnosticism to the serene faith of a ...
... lover of the Divine , flying from peak to peak of mystic ecstasy , blinks and cries in the face of the unshadowed sun , " I cannot see ! " Coventry Patmore journeyed all the way from arro- gant agnosticism to the serene faith of a ...
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... Lover and His dealings with His spouse , the human soul . " Pleasure and beauty -which may be said to be pleasure visible — are without their highest perfection if they are without a touch of pathos . This touch , indeed , accrues ...
... Lover and His dealings with His spouse , the human soul . " Pleasure and beauty -which may be said to be pleasure visible — are without their highest perfection if they are without a touch of pathos . This touch , indeed , accrues ...
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... lover of the character essay of the seventeenth century can but see how life treasures its whimsies when he has the good fortune to come upon the essays of Laura Spencer Portor . For this entranc- ing poet and short - story writer is ...
... lover of the character essay of the seventeenth century can but see how life treasures its whimsies when he has the good fortune to come upon the essays of Laura Spencer Portor . For this entranc- ing poet and short - story writer is ...
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