The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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Page 43
... human vices and foibles be or be not more common than human virtues , it is at any rate easier to make capital out of the former . Now Hall was certainly by nature inclined to satire . While his claim to be the father of English satire ...
... human vices and foibles be or be not more common than human virtues , it is at any rate easier to make capital out of the former . Now Hall was certainly by nature inclined to satire . While his claim to be the father of English satire ...
Page 58
... human life , but the writer's talent ; Fuller devotes a greater talent , not to the exhibition of his own cleverness , but to throwing a real light upon some phase of human nature . Their wit ends in itself ; Fuller's wit is also wisdom ...
... human life , but the writer's talent ; Fuller devotes a greater talent , not to the exhibition of his own cleverness , but to throwing a real light upon some phase of human nature . Their wit ends in itself ; Fuller's wit is also wisdom ...
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... humanity which Goldsmith and Lamb could impart to similar essays . This humanity we find occasionally in the essays of Steele ; but hardly elsewhere in The Tatler or The Spectator , except in the De Coverley papers . In these the human ...
... humanity which Goldsmith and Lamb could impart to similar essays . This humanity we find occasionally in the essays of Steele ; but hardly elsewhere in The Tatler or The Spectator , except in the De Coverley papers . In these the human ...
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