The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... vice of Elizabethan poetry is lawlessness ; much more therefore is this likely to prove to be the vice of Elizabethan prose . Here literary rubbish was shot ; and though in the heap there are gems to be found , they are invariably rough ...
... vice of Elizabethan poetry is lawlessness ; much more therefore is this likely to prove to be the vice of Elizabethan prose . Here literary rubbish was shot ; and though in the heap there are gems to be found , they are invariably rough ...
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... vice of the pulpit has commonly been a tendency to truisms , a fatal proneness to take glimpses into the obvious . " And it is Felltham's vice too . A good example is to be found in the essay Of Time's con- tinual Speed . It is written ...
... vice of the pulpit has commonly been a tendency to truisms , a fatal proneness to take glimpses into the obvious . " And it is Felltham's vice too . A good example is to be found in the essay Of Time's con- tinual Speed . It is written ...
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... vice of the other ] . Ingratitude , contempt , and hatred , I can now suffer , for perhaps I have deserved them . When I arraigned the wisdom of Providence , I only showed my own ignorance ; henceforth let me keep from vice myself , and ...
... vice of the other ] . Ingratitude , contempt , and hatred , I can now suffer , for perhaps I have deserved them . When I arraigned the wisdom of Providence , I only showed my own ignorance ; henceforth let me keep from vice myself , and ...
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