The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... Turning from the impersonal , disser- tational style of writing then the standard , and giving to the essay personality and easy , natural , desultory style , he made of it the subjective form of prose litera- ture . Molding the ...
... Turning from the impersonal , disser- tational style of writing then the standard , and giving to the essay personality and easy , natural , desultory style , he made of it the subjective form of prose litera- ture . Molding the ...
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... turn toward the familiar type . The two kinds of journal popular in the early part of the nineteenth century , the magazine and the critical review , helped to further the distinction between the familiar essay on the 20 THE LITERARY ...
... turn toward the familiar type . The two kinds of journal popular in the early part of the nineteenth century , the magazine and the critical review , helped to further the distinction between the familiar essay on the 20 THE LITERARY ...
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... turn made possible by political peace at home and abroad , —changes which created a leisured class with an outlook broadened by contact with other nations . Even in religious matters there was an ap- proach toward peace . Elizabeth was ...
... turn made possible by political peace at home and abroad , —changes which created a leisured class with an outlook broadened by contact with other nations . Even in religious matters there was an ap- proach toward peace . Elizabeth was ...
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... turn the oral essay into the written essay . Time was indeed full ripe for the publication of Bacon's little book of essays . It remains to be recalled that in 1308 Wycliffe translated the Bible into English , and that in 1670 the King ...
... turn the oral essay into the written essay . Time was indeed full ripe for the publication of Bacon's little book of essays . It remains to be recalled that in 1308 Wycliffe translated the Bible into English , and that in 1670 the King ...
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... turn over any old falsehood without a terri- ble squirming and scattering of the horrid little popula- tion that dwells under it . " Cruel , yes , but what of the potential life suppressed beneath the stone , the life so 42 THE LITERARY ...
... turn over any old falsehood without a terri- ble squirming and scattering of the horrid little popula- tion that dwells under it . " Cruel , yes , but what of the potential life suppressed beneath the stone , the life so 42 THE LITERARY ...
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