The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... greatest , perhaps the greatest of all . Take Religio Medici . Though so much shorter than Vulgar Errors , by reason of its superior unity , it of all Browne's works has , most nearly the character of a treatise . But , though Browne ...
... greatest , perhaps the greatest of all . Take Religio Medici . Though so much shorter than Vulgar Errors , by reason of its superior unity , it of all Browne's works has , most nearly the character of a treatise . But , though Browne ...
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... greatest style is the expression of the highest energy , intellectual and moral . This is the reason why our greatest poets , Shakespeare and Milton , are likewise , at their best , among our greatest prose - writers ; and it is also ...
... greatest style is the expression of the highest energy , intellectual and moral . This is the reason why our greatest poets , Shakespeare and Milton , are likewise , at their best , among our greatest prose - writers ; and it is also ...
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... greatest name upon his list is that of Novalis - notable because Novalis is a mystic of the mystics , and it is just mysti- cism and the things akin to mysticism that Carlyle finds to discriminate Germany from England . The Germans ( in ...
... greatest name upon his list is that of Novalis - notable because Novalis is a mystic of the mystics , and it is just mysti- cism and the things akin to mysticism that Carlyle finds to discriminate Germany from England . The Germans ( in ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE CHARACTERWRITERS | 15 |
THE QUEEN ANNE ESSAYISTS | 99 |
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