The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and NotesHarper & brothers, 1909 - 351 pagina's |
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... style so unequal , that it has been with great probability supposed that they are to a large extent not finished writings , but notes and rough jottings edited by his disciples . " In the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. a race of ...
... style so unequal , that it has been with great probability supposed that they are to a large extent not finished writings , but notes and rough jottings edited by his disciples . " In the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. a race of ...
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... they set the model for Bacon . Printed side by side , Bacon's essay on Truth , and the essay of Jesus the Son of Sirach on Gossip , reveal astonishing similarities , particularly in the terseness of the style 4 THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY.
... they set the model for Bacon . Printed side by side , Bacon's essay on Truth , and the essay of Jesus the Son of Sirach on Gossip , reveal astonishing similarities , particularly in the terseness of the style 4 THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY.
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... style and the depth of worldly wisdom which they display . For Bacon also was an ironic observer of men and man- ners , who sought to express the wisdom of a lifetime in apothegms . The essay as the written word made its earliest ...
... style and the depth of worldly wisdom which they display . For Bacon also was an ironic observer of men and man- ners , who sought to express the wisdom of a lifetime in apothegms . The essay as the written word made its earliest ...
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... style and so perfect in method that they created the pattern which all succeeding generations of scholars have sought to emulate and imitate . But the day was yet far distant when the essay and the oration were to be finally separated ...
... style and so perfect in method that they created the pattern which all succeeding generations of scholars have sought to emulate and imitate . But the day was yet far distant when the essay and the oration were to be finally separated ...
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... style is often cumbered and his secrets are sometimes rudely violent in their in- timacy , his book may truthfully be said to be one of the kindest and most companionable in the English language . Doctor Johnson said of it that it was ...
... style is often cumbered and his secrets are sometimes rudely violent in their in- timacy , his book may truthfully be said to be one of the kindest and most companionable in the English language . Doctor Johnson said of it that it was ...
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The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and Notes William James Dawson,Coningsby Dawson Volledige weergave - 1909 |
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