The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... character as delineated by Theophrastus had been familiar for generations ; but nothing came of it until other influences came into play . One of these was the influence of Seneca , to whom attention had been drawn by the rise of the ...
... character as delineated by Theophrastus had been familiar for generations ; but nothing came of it until other influences came into play . One of these was the influence of Seneca , to whom attention had been drawn by the rise of the ...
Page 39
... character - writers in a relation similar to that which Nathan Drake holds with reference to the eighteenth - century essayists . In his edition of Earle's Micro- cosmography Bliss in 1811 enumerated no fewer than fifty- seven characters ...
... character - writers in a relation similar to that which Nathan Drake holds with reference to the eighteenth - century essayists . In his edition of Earle's Micro- cosmography Bliss in 1811 enumerated no fewer than fifty- seven characters ...
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... character - sketch . The Country Parson is one of the most charming of essays , but it is not in the strictest sense a ' character . ' The after - glow of the great Elizabethan age still illuminated Earle ; but he was almost the last of ...
... character - sketch . The Country Parson is one of the most charming of essays , but it is not in the strictest sense a ' character . ' The after - glow of the great Elizabethan age still illuminated Earle ; but he was almost the last of ...
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