The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... seems to be fashioning for himself only to find that they lead him back to the garish world just a moment too soon , the trees keeping their vigil in a stillness that whispers of God - all these combine into an effect which we term ...
... seems to be fashioning for himself only to find that they lead him back to the garish world just a moment too soon , the trees keeping their vigil in a stillness that whispers of God - all these combine into an effect which we term ...
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... seem at first sight to increase the difficulty of finding an adequate definition of the essay as a form of literature . Some informal ex- position of the term " literary " as it is variously em- ployed will , perhaps , be of assistance ...
... seem at first sight to increase the difficulty of finding an adequate definition of the essay as a form of literature . Some informal ex- position of the term " literary " as it is variously em- ployed will , perhaps , be of assistance ...
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... seems to be a sort of orphanage into which all otherwise unclassifiable compositions are thrust for want of a better place in which to put them . At any rate , in despair of all else , brevity is commonly considered an earmark of the ...
... seems to be a sort of orphanage into which all otherwise unclassifiable compositions are thrust for want of a better place in which to put them . At any rate , in despair of all else , brevity is commonly considered an earmark of the ...
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... seems to have taken this literary type backward many stages in its development . Bacon's writings are aph- oristic and lack the easy , conversational , and literary style of Montaigne . We must remember that Bacon was INTRODUCTION 19.
... seems to have taken this literary type backward many stages in its development . Bacon's writings are aph- oristic and lack the easy , conversational , and literary style of Montaigne . We must remember that Bacon was INTRODUCTION 19.
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... seems to have been but the merest incident to him . Above all , let us , who live in these days when English literary art is , as Thompson predicts , in danger of " dwindling to the extinction of unendurable excellence , " beware lest ...
... seems to have been but the merest incident to him . Above all , let us , who live in these days when English literary art is , as Thompson predicts , in danger of " dwindling to the extinction of unendurable excellence , " beware lest ...
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