The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... Essay on Criticism , but even in the nineteenth we find a metrical Essay on Mind . Indeed the word is actually older in English as the name of a com- position in verse than as the name of a composition in prose ; for King James's Essays ...
... Essay on Criticism , but even in the nineteenth we find a metrical Essay on Mind . Indeed the word is actually older in English as the name of a com- position in verse than as the name of a composition in prose ; for King James's Essays ...
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... essays do not strictly belong to a separate literary form ; the historical essay is an incomplete history , the philosophical essay might expand into a treatise . But besides essays in this looser sense there are essays more strictly so ...
... essays do not strictly belong to a separate literary form ; the historical essay is an incomplete history , the philosophical essay might expand into a treatise . But besides essays in this looser sense there are essays more strictly so ...
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... essay nature , could be accepted as genuine essays , his place must be a very high one . Many of his smaller volumes are groups of essays , or of lectures , or of letters which might prove to be essays - Unto this Last , Munera Pulveris ...
... essay nature , could be accepted as genuine essays , his place must be a very high one . Many of his smaller volumes are groups of essays , or of lectures , or of letters which might prove to be essays - Unto this Last , Munera Pulveris ...
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