The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... praises the English translation of Montaigne . There was one writer who came near bending the bow of the English Ulysses - Ben Jonson . The great dramatist has received his full meed of praise and fame as a poet , and perhaps even more ...
... praises the English translation of Montaigne . There was one writer who came near bending the bow of the English Ulysses - Ben Jonson . The great dramatist has received his full meed of praise and fame as a poet , and perhaps even more ...
Page 179
... praise for impartiality of an organ written almost wholly by Whigs , and an unqualified condemnation of a rival organ written almost wholly by Tories . It is the extreme of the partisan spirit to see nothing but stainless white on one ...
... praise for impartiality of an organ written almost wholly by Whigs , and an unqualified condemnation of a rival organ written almost wholly by Tories . It is the extreme of the partisan spirit to see nothing but stainless white on one ...
Page 327
... praise , but he is great enough to survive that , as well as the depreciation it provokes . The story of his life , in which ill fortune and good are so strangely mingled ( for surely it was the best of good fortune to find such friends ...
... praise , but he is great enough to survive that , as well as the depreciation it provokes . The story of his life , in which ill fortune and good are so strangely mingled ( for surely it was the best of good fortune to find such friends ...
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