The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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Page 27
... seems somewhat akin to the meditations of Marcus Aurelius . Bacon gives us the tone of this form in the Dedicatory Epistle to the 1612 edition of his collection : " To write just treatises , requireth leisure in the writer , and leisure ...
... seems somewhat akin to the meditations of Marcus Aurelius . Bacon gives us the tone of this form in the Dedicatory Epistle to the 1612 edition of his collection : " To write just treatises , requireth leisure in the writer , and leisure ...
Page 30
... seem to be two styles in the essays of Bacon , in consequence probably of a change in the author's conception of the function and possibilities of this form of literature . The earlier essays , in which the sentences are all short and ...
... seem to be two styles in the essays of Bacon , in consequence probably of a change in the author's conception of the function and possibilities of this form of literature . The earlier essays , in which the sentences are all short and ...
Page 31
... seem a brave person who would single out portions of Bacon's essays as more suitable for quota- tion than other portions , and yet it would be sheer cruelty to our gentle reader not to spare him a few of the intellectual crumbs from our ...
... seem a brave person who would single out portions of Bacon's essays as more suitable for quota- tion than other portions , and yet it would be sheer cruelty to our gentle reader not to spare him a few of the intellectual crumbs from our ...
Page 32
... seems to be , let the truth be told if it be not too costly ; in that " Of Suitors " there appears to be an indifferent attitude toward right and wrong - modera- tion should be the watchword of the wrongdoer ! " Of Friendship , " one of ...
... seems to be , let the truth be told if it be not too costly ; in that " Of Suitors " there appears to be an indifferent attitude toward right and wrong - modera- tion should be the watchword of the wrongdoer ! " Of Friendship , " one of ...
Page 33
... grace - one does not wonder that Bacon , whose eyes were not lifted above the things of earth , seems to have had little thought for the things of Heaven . - J BEN JONSON ( 1573-1637 ) When a man's death THE APHORISTIC ESSAY 33.
... grace - one does not wonder that Bacon , whose eyes were not lifted above the things of earth , seems to have had little thought for the things of Heaven . - J BEN JONSON ( 1573-1637 ) When a man's death THE APHORISTIC ESSAY 33.
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