The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... reason whatever why the class in 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 ...
... reason whatever why the class in 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 ...
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... reason , one huddling upon another , that at leisure to view the foolishness and monstrous strangeness of them , I have begun to keep a register of them , hoping , if I live , one day to make him ashamed and blush at himselfe . " If ...
... reason , one huddling upon another , that at leisure to view the foolishness and monstrous strangeness of them , I have begun to keep a register of them , hoping , if I live , one day to make him ashamed and blush at himselfe . " If ...
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... reason that no other hand is able to wield it . Despite his ponderousness of subject matter Bacon fur- nished a model of clear and simple style , because by the very plan of his work his sentences had to be short , and with this brevity ...
... reason that no other hand is able to wield it . Despite his ponderousness of subject matter Bacon fur- nished a model of clear and simple style , because by the very plan of his work his sentences had to be short , and with this brevity ...
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... reasons , because his plays won for him the title of poet laureate , —what is left us to say of him ? Just this , that he is a great essayist who has received practically no apprecia- tion . He is great not because of the originality of ...
... reasons , because his plays won for him the title of poet laureate , —what is left us to say of him ? Just this , that he is a great essayist who has received practically no apprecia- tion . He is great not because of the originality of ...
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... reason left to wonder that Jonson has been accorded a high place in our estimate of aphoristic writers . JOHN SELDEN ( 1584-1654 ) The remarkable book of essays , Table - Talk , written by John Selden and edited and published by Richard ...
... reason left to wonder that Jonson has been accorded a high place in our estimate of aphoristic writers . JOHN SELDEN ( 1584-1654 ) The remarkable book of essays , Table - Talk , written by John Selden and edited and published by Richard ...
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