The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... simple , and ordinarie fashion , without contention , art , or study ; for it is myselfe I pourtray . · Thus , gentle reader , myselfe am the grounde- worke of my booke . " Montaigne did not write from any external necessity but only ...
... simple , and ordinarie fashion , without contention , art , or study ; for it is myselfe I pourtray . · Thus , gentle reader , myselfe am the grounde- worke of my booke . " Montaigne did not write from any external necessity but only ...
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... simple style , because by the very plan of his work his sentences had to be short , and with this brevity came the two qualities English prose had lacked , lucidity and pithiness . It would seem a brave person who would single out ...
... simple style , because by the very plan of his work his sentences had to be short , and with this brevity came the two qualities English prose had lacked , lucidity and pithiness . It would seem a brave person who would single out ...
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... simple subject is treated in a simple way , and when there is need he can rise to the heights of elo- quent expression . The effectiveness of his simple dig- nity is apparent in this bit of reasoning : " No man is so foolish , but may ...
... simple subject is treated in a simple way , and when there is need he can rise to the heights of elo- quent expression . The effectiveness of his simple dig- nity is apparent in this bit of reasoning : " No man is so foolish , but may ...
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... simple , spir- ited style , and his pictures are true to the human life of all time . Of the Unthrift , in the essay under that title , he says : " His expense is measured , not by ability , but will . His pleasures are immoderate , and ...
... simple , spir- ited style , and his pictures are true to the human life of all time . Of the Unthrift , in the essay under that title , he says : " His expense is measured , not by ability , but will . His pleasures are immoderate , and ...
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... simple fact that their artists could not conceive moral ugliness united to physical beauty ; and the Greek love of the beautiful made their concrete em- bodiment of it in every kind of art equally unsurpass- able . In the technical ...
... simple fact that their artists could not conceive moral ugliness united to physical beauty ; and the Greek love of the beautiful made their concrete em- bodiment of it in every kind of art equally unsurpass- able . In the technical ...
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