The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 41
Page 162
... philosophy more than in literature ; and though he possessed some of the most engaging qualities of the essayist ... philosophy ; but , excellent as is his literary style , there can be little doubt that his choice of philosophy was ...
... philosophy more than in literature ; and though he possessed some of the most engaging qualities of the essayist ... philosophy ; but , excellent as is his literary style , there can be little doubt that his choice of philosophy was ...
Page 163
... philosophy . Others are described moral , political and literary . " It is here principally that the Hume with whom we are concerned shows himself , and here we may legitimately regret that the literary element is not predominant . The ...
... philosophy . Others are described moral , political and literary . " It is here principally that the Hume with whom we are concerned shows himself , and here we may legitimately regret that the literary element is not predominant . The ...
Page 296
... philosophy which nerved him to make his life active at whatever risk of ending it . " It is better , " he says , to ... philosophy of the invalid who is resolute not to sink to mere invalidism . It is the voice of a man who , forced to ...
... philosophy which nerved him to make his life active at whatever risk of ending it . " It is better , " he says , to ... philosophy of the invalid who is resolute not to sink to mere invalidism . It is the voice of a man who , forced to ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Addison admirable Bacon beauty Ben Jonson Browne Carlyle character character-writers Charles Lamb charm Coleridge conception contemporaries criticism Defoe Edinburgh Edinburgh Review eighteenth century English essayist evidence excellent fact Garden of Cyrus genius gifts gives Goldsmith Hazlitt honour human humour Hunt illustration interest Jeffrey Johnson judgment Lamb Lamb's Leigh Hunt less letters literary literature lived London Magazine Macaulay Magazine Matthew Arnold merit mind moral nature never papers passage perhaps periodical essay philosophy piece poet poetry political popular praise principles prose qualities Quincey R. L. Stevenson Rambler reader reason Religio Medici religion remarkable Review satire says Scott seems sense sentence Shakespeare sort Southey Spectator spirit Steele Stevenson story style Swift taste Tatler Theophrastus things thought tion touch true truth Vicar of Wakefield vice volume Whig wholly wisdom words Wordsworth writings written wrote