The English Essay and EssayistsJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... thought is too profound , to permit us to speak of the essays as the confidential chat of a great philosopher ; but in them he comes as near that as his nature would permit . Just here we detect the secret of Bacon's inferiority ( of ...
... thought is too profound , to permit us to speak of the essays as the confidential chat of a great philosopher ; but in them he comes as near that as his nature would permit . Just here we detect the secret of Bacon's inferiority ( of ...
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... thought , and although in the essay on government he is off his beat , even here he comes with credit through the ordeal of comparison with Bacon . The essay is as close- packed with thought as any of Bacon's own . The two notes on ...
... thought , and although in the essay on government he is off his beat , even here he comes with credit through the ordeal of comparison with Bacon . The essay is as close- packed with thought as any of Bacon's own . The two notes on ...
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... thought is spent , who is most widely known , is not Tycho Brahe or Thorwaldsen , or any other man who was ever born in Den- mark , but a Dane who never lived at all - Hamlet , Prince of Denmark , the creature of the brain of William ...
... thought is spent , who is most widely known , is not Tycho Brahe or Thorwaldsen , or any other man who was ever born in Den- mark , but a Dane who never lived at all - Hamlet , Prince of Denmark , the creature of the brain of William ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE CHARACTERWRITERS | 15 |
SOME OF THEir Victims AND OTHERS | 193 |
Copyright | |
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