The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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Page 75
... close of the century - evidence of a popularity very extraordinary at that period . Nor was the popularity limited to England . Religio Medici was trans- lated into Latin , Dutch , German and French , and won the ardent admiration of ...
... close of the century - evidence of a popularity very extraordinary at that period . Nor was the popularity limited to England . Religio Medici was trans- lated into Latin , Dutch , German and French , and won the ardent admiration of ...
Page 168
... close than it was meant to be . Hazlitt has related how the landing of Napoleon from Elba dissolved the Round Table and drew the attention of the editor from the characteristic part of the work to politics . Thus it came about that The ...
... close than it was meant to be . Hazlitt has related how the landing of Napoleon from Elba dissolved the Round Table and drew the attention of the editor from the characteristic part of the work to politics . Thus it came about that The ...
Page 193
... close of the eighteenth century the periodical essay of the type initiated by Steele gave un- equivocal symptoms of decay , and that , though a consider- able number of papers continued to be produced , they were feeble and flaccid ...
... close of the eighteenth century the periodical essay of the type initiated by Steele gave un- equivocal symptoms of decay , and that , though a consider- able number of papers continued to be produced , they were feeble and flaccid ...
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