The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... received in the English program of most colleges either the kind or the amount of attention it deserves , with the result that this species of literature is in comparison to some other species a practically unknown realm . Fiction ...
... received in the English program of most colleges either the kind or the amount of attention it deserves , with the result that this species of literature is in comparison to some other species a practically unknown realm . Fiction ...
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... received practically no apprecia- tion . He is great not because of the originality of sub- ject matter , much of which he owed to other writers , but because in those early days when English prose was still rough and obscurely written ...
... received practically no apprecia- tion . He is great not because of the originality of sub- ject matter , much of which he owed to other writers , but because in those early days when English prose was still rough and obscurely written ...
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... received , for he was widely known as the most brilliant conversationalist of the famous Saturday Club of Boston . In this city of his predilection , " the hub of the universe , " he passed most of his happy life ; and its loving ...
... received , for he was widely known as the most brilliant conversationalist of the famous Saturday Club of Boston . In this city of his predilection , " the hub of the universe , " he passed most of his happy life ; and its loving ...
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... received a degree . He then became private secretary to his relative Sir William Temple , who was at the time engaged in a literary con- troversy which provoked Swift into writing that keen satire The Battle of the Books . After some ...
... received a degree . He then became private secretary to his relative Sir William Temple , who was at the time engaged in a literary con- troversy which provoked Swift into writing that keen satire The Battle of the Books . After some ...
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... , perhaps , the most autobiographical of writers . After receiving his degree from Trinity Col- lege , Dublin , he spent a short time at Edinburgh Uni- versity , studying medicine , and also at the University THE SHORT - STORY ESSAY III.
... , perhaps , the most autobiographical of writers . After receiving his degree from Trinity Col- lege , Dublin , he spent a short time at Edinburgh Uni- versity , studying medicine , and also at the University THE SHORT - STORY ESSAY III.
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