The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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Page 173
... illustration of Hunt's vulgarity . Napier actually used the word , but it was unjust ; at least it would be unjust as applied to Hunt's habitual style , however it might be defended as descriptive of particular phrases . Homely and ...
... illustration of Hunt's vulgarity . Napier actually used the word , but it was unjust ; at least it would be unjust as applied to Hunt's habitual style , however it might be defended as descriptive of particular phrases . Homely and ...
Page 241
... illustrated from a score of other passages . The phrase " handsome volutes to the human capital " is a playful conceit which a seventeenth- century writer might have used seriously and plumed himself upon . The iteration had better be ...
... illustrated from a score of other passages . The phrase " handsome volutes to the human capital " is a playful conceit which a seventeenth- century writer might have used seriously and plumed himself upon . The iteration had better be ...
Page 259
... illustrations are happy - as when , in the same paper , he describes the orchid " radiant in beauty , white , with a ... illustration : " Like all true humourists , he had the tragic sense and power - for as is the height so is the depth ...
... illustrations are happy - as when , in the same paper , he describes the orchid " radiant in beauty , white , with a ... illustration : " Like all true humourists , he had the tragic sense and power - for as is the height so is the depth ...
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