The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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Page 95
... excellent comparison , in the Preface to the Fables , between Chaucer and Ovid . " The vulgar judges , which are nine parts in ten of all nations , who call conceits and jingles wit , who see Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether ...
... excellent comparison , in the Preface to the Fables , between Chaucer and Ovid . " The vulgar judges , which are nine parts in ten of all nations , who call conceits and jingles wit , who see Ovid full of them , and Chaucer altogether ...
Page 156
... excellent , and so is the letter of Homespun on the great lady's visit , though the debt to The Vicar of Wakefield is too great . The paper on Burns ( Lounger , No. 97 ) is most honour- able to Mackenzie . But his masterpiece is the ...
... excellent , and so is the letter of Homespun on the great lady's visit , though the debt to The Vicar of Wakefield is too great . The paper on Burns ( Lounger , No. 97 ) is most honour- able to Mackenzie . But his masterpiece is the ...
Page 231
... excellent prin- ciples of education are laid down in Recollections of Christ's Hospital . The author of Modern Gallantry had delved beneath shows to reality ; and The Tombs in the Abbey is as just in thought as it is vigorous in style ...
... excellent prin- ciples of education are laid down in Recollections of Christ's Hospital . The author of Modern Gallantry had delved beneath shows to reality ; and The Tombs in the Abbey is as just in thought as it is vigorous in style ...
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