The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... Truth , Death , and so on . But the essays are mere exercises of verbal ingenuity , and the beginning of Truth will suffice to show how far they are removed from Bacon : " Truth is the Glory of Time , and the Daughter of Eternity : a ...
... Truth , Death , and so on . But the essays are mere exercises of verbal ingenuity , and the beginning of Truth will suffice to show how far they are removed from Bacon : " Truth is the Glory of Time , and the Daughter of Eternity : a ...
Page 113
... truth beneath it . Johnson , in his judgment on the memorable friendship of the two great essayists , awards the palm to Steele ; and if his story of the execution ordered by Addison to recover his 100 from Steele be true , it is ...
... truth beneath it . Johnson , in his judgment on the memorable friendship of the two great essayists , awards the palm to Steele ; and if his story of the execution ordered by Addison to recover his 100 from Steele be true , it is ...
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... truth of his saying that " it might almost be erected into a rule that a great poet is , if he please , also a master of prose . " His own prose , always distinguished , though never free from faults , rises in a small group of essays ...
... truth of his saying that " it might almost be erected into a rule that a great poet is , if he please , also a master of prose . " His own prose , always distinguished , though never free from faults , rises in a small group of essays ...
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