The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... of soul - for the true essayist is graduated from the school of experience . In this school he has learned in fuller measure the truth that makes men free , with the freedom of spiritual rebirth . I CHAPTER INTRODUCTION.
... of soul - for the true essayist is graduated from the school of experience . In this school he has learned in fuller measure the truth that makes men free , with the freedom of spiritual rebirth . I CHAPTER INTRODUCTION.
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... True literary art is , as is every art , the result not only of the love of the beautiful , which inspires us to seek after the adequate expression of it in something external to ourselves , but also the result of perfect mas- tery of ...
... True literary art is , as is every art , the result not only of the love of the beautiful , which inspires us to seek after the adequate expression of it in something external to ourselves , but also the result of perfect mas- tery of ...
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... true artist may conceal his grammar and rhetoric , but he never ignores them . They are the foun- dation of his style , and he realizes that self - expression is no less self - expression because it is trained and reasoned . There is ...
... true artist may conceal his grammar and rhetoric , but he never ignores them . They are the foun- dation of his style , and he realizes that self - expression is no less self - expression because it is trained and reasoned . There is ...
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... true delineation of their author , who desired to write of himself " in mine owne genuine , simple , and ordinarie fashion , without contention , art , or study ; for it is myselfe I pourtray . · Thus , gentle reader , myselfe am the ...
... true delineation of their author , who desired to write of himself " in mine owne genuine , simple , and ordinarie fashion , without contention , art , or study ; for it is myselfe I pourtray . · Thus , gentle reader , myselfe am the ...
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... true child of Tudor nobility , with the formality of the royalist , that he was a " pet " of the " faerie queen . " In the seventeenth century several collections of essays mostly didactic in nature were published . The character essay ...
... true child of Tudor nobility , with the formality of the royalist , that he was a " pet " of the " faerie queen . " In the seventeenth century several collections of essays mostly didactic in nature were published . The character essay ...
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