The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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Page 21
... period , however , they began to make up for lost time . Induced by characteristic impulse " to try any- thing once , " they succeeded , within some fifty years , in developing all the types of essay . Irving , in the judg- ment of ...
... period , however , they began to make up for lost time . Induced by characteristic impulse " to try any- thing once , " they succeeded , within some fifty years , in developing all the types of essay . Irving , in the judg- ment of ...
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... period when , because of the " flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung up and yet springing daily , " England , according to Milton , should have been seen " rousing herself like a strong man after sleep , and shaking her ...
... period when , because of the " flowery crop of knowledge and new light sprung up and yet springing daily , " England , according to Milton , should have been seen " rousing herself like a strong man after sleep , and shaking her ...
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... period of his life . His remaining years he devoted to literary and scientific work . Bacon is the first and in mental power the greatest of English essayists , who " took all knowledge for his province , " whose mind was a veritable ...
... period of his life . His remaining years he devoted to literary and scientific work . Bacon is the first and in mental power the greatest of English essayists , who " took all knowledge for his province , " whose mind was a veritable ...
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... period is mellow and sympathetic toward human weakness . Jonson died in utter destitution , and , as is so often the case , his death heralded his way into fame . Our present interest in this writer , so conspicuously literary in his ...
... period is mellow and sympathetic toward human weakness . Jonson died in utter destitution , and , as is so often the case , his death heralded his way into fame . Our present interest in this writer , so conspicuously literary in his ...
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... period was drawing to its close and Puritan ascendancy was beginning to exercise an influ- ence on English life and thought . The Euphues of John Lyly had planted among the flowers in the field of Eng- lish prose the weedy growth that ...
... period was drawing to its close and Puritan ascendancy was beginning to exercise an influ- ence on English life and thought . The Euphues of John Lyly had planted among the flowers in the field of Eng- lish prose the weedy growth that ...
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