The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... effective satirist of his time , the reader feels that he would have been more effective still if only he had known how much more the half is than the whole . There is a good deal to admire in Nash , but also not a little to forgive ...
... effective satirist of his time , the reader feels that he would have been more effective still if only he had known how much more the half is than the whole . There is a good deal to admire in Nash , but also not a little to forgive ...
Page 183
... effective retort to the extraordinary statement just quoted as to the fixity of Hazlitt's ideas : Why then , you are no wiser now than you were then ; and Hazlitt's attempt at a reply is not very successful . No doubt what he said about ...
... effective retort to the extraordinary statement just quoted as to the fixity of Hazlitt's ideas : Why then , you are no wiser now than you were then ; and Hazlitt's attempt at a reply is not very successful . No doubt what he said about ...
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... effective . Cobbett's earnestness makes him always respectable , his fervour of heart renders him effective . Indignation makes his prose , as it made Juvenal's verse . He rode abroad in the country , and turned upon it an eye made keen ...
... effective . Cobbett's earnestness makes him always respectable , his fervour of heart renders him effective . Indignation makes his prose , as it made Juvenal's verse . He rode abroad in the country , and turned upon it an eye made keen ...
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