The English Essay and EssayistJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1934 - 343 pages |
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... writings , and in particular those writings which may be classed as essays . Defoe was too strenuous a man of affairs to have the tem- perament of the essayist . Of his astonishingly voluminous miscellaneous writings by far the greater ...
... writings , and in particular those writings which may be classed as essays . Defoe was too strenuous a man of affairs to have the tem- perament of the essayist . Of his astonishingly voluminous miscellaneous writings by far the greater ...
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... writings would have been impossible had Richard Steele himself been either a better man or a worse one . In the case of no other English writer , probably , does the written word more faith- fully depict the writer . Joseph Addison ...
... writings would have been impossible had Richard Steele himself been either a better man or a worse one . In the case of no other English writer , probably , does the written word more faith- fully depict the writer . Joseph Addison ...
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... writings . Facts in Lamb's life too well known to need repetition , prove how deep was the goodness of which this charm was the flower . They justify the emphatic praise of Wordsworth : - - Oh , he was good , if e'er a good man lived ...
... writings . Facts in Lamb's life too well known to need repetition , prove how deep was the goodness of which this charm was the flower . They justify the emphatic praise of Wordsworth : - - Oh , he was good , if e'er a good man lived ...
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