The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 40
Page 10
... sentence un- worthy of that description of the author which appeared upon the title - page when he was in his grave— " the right noble , virtuous and learned Sir Philip Sidney , Knight . " Sidney will not stoop to the abuse in which ...
... sentence un- worthy of that description of the author which appeared upon the title - page when he was in his grave— " the right noble , virtuous and learned Sir Philip Sidney , Knight . " Sidney will not stoop to the abuse in which ...
Page 18
... sentences are nearly all short , crisp , sententious . There are few connectives . Each sentence stands by itself , the concentrated expression of weighty thought . But this is not because Bacon's imagi- nation was not yet developed ...
... sentences are nearly all short , crisp , sententious . There are few connectives . Each sentence stands by itself , the concentrated expression of weighty thought . But this is not because Bacon's imagi- nation was not yet developed ...
Page 298
... sentence , as in the description of the little towns on the coast of Fife , " posted along the shore as close as sedges , each with its bit of harbour , its old weather - beaten church or public building , its flavour of decayed ...
... sentence , as in the description of the little towns on the coast of Fife , " posted along the shore as close as sedges , each with its bit of harbour , its old weather - beaten church or public building , its flavour of decayed ...
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