The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... respect him as we respect his namesake of the following century . And as his sentences are invariably the expression of thought in himself , so they are the cause of thought in others . Few writers are more suggestive , few more sound ...
... respect him as we respect his namesake of the following century . And as his sentences are invariably the expression of thought in himself , so they are the cause of thought in others . Few writers are more suggestive , few more sound ...
Page 99
... respect - power of origination — they are hardly equalled in their own period , or surpassed in the whole history of English literature . To Defoe , as a pioneer in journalism as well as in the novel , the palm in this respect must be ...
... respect - power of origination — they are hardly equalled in their own period , or surpassed in the whole history of English literature . To Defoe , as a pioneer in journalism as well as in the novel , the palm in this respect must be ...
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... respect of some of the functions of criticism , Steele was as highly gifted as any man of his time . In respect of some of the functions of criticism ; for there is a sense in which it might be maintained that he was not a critic at all ...
... respect of some of the functions of criticism , Steele was as highly gifted as any man of his time . In respect of some of the functions of criticism ; for there is a sense in which it might be maintained that he was not a critic at all ...
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