The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... practically unknown realm . Fiction , poetry , and the drama have received much more justice . Right educa- tion will no doubt continue unto the end of time to in- volve a tangle of problems , and the teaching of English is not the ...
... practically unknown realm . Fiction , poetry , and the drama have received much more justice . Right educa- tion will no doubt continue unto the end of time to in- volve a tangle of problems , and the teaching of English is not the ...
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... practically every note- worthy writer since the time of Bacon . . ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY Though the essay as a distinct literary form dates only from Montaigne , it has a most worthy ancestry , traceable back to classical antiquity ...
... practically every note- worthy writer since the time of Bacon . . ORIGIN AND EARLY HISTORY Though the essay as a distinct literary form dates only from Montaigne , it has a most worthy ancestry , traceable back to classical antiquity ...
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... the young are coming to believe that a book with neither conversation nor pictures may yet be so fascinating as to compel immediate and entire perusal . BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Practically all the writers that are to be INTRODUCTION 21.
... the young are coming to believe that a book with neither conversation nor pictures may yet be so fascinating as to compel immediate and entire perusal . BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Practically all the writers that are to be INTRODUCTION 21.
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Eleanore (Sister Mary). BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Practically all the writers that are to be considered in this book have written something on the subject of style . The author has culled out occasional sentences from them which she considers ...
Eleanore (Sister Mary). BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Practically all the writers that are to be considered in this book have written something on the subject of style . The author has culled out occasional sentences from them which she considers ...
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... practically all old English literature . Because of this obscurity we shall have to content ourselves with generalization . In the Middle Ages the art of bookmaking was too costly to let the written essay supplant oral instruction to ...
... practically all old English literature . Because of this obscurity we shall have to content ourselves with generalization . In the Middle Ages the art of bookmaking was too costly to let the written essay supplant oral instruction to ...
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