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Pagina 5
... thing not for ostentation , but for reasonable use ; and it is not the acknowledgment of poverty we think disgraceful , but the want of endeavour to avoid it . " In this and many similar passages we have a form of literature that sug ...
... thing not for ostentation , but for reasonable use ; and it is not the acknowledgment of poverty we think disgraceful , but the want of endeavour to avoid it . " In this and many similar passages we have a form of literature that sug ...
Pagina 11
... he could wish . Lamb might have said the same thing ; Stevenson even more emphatically . As a method of self - revelation , not even poetry surpasses the essay . The tradition established by THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY 11.
... he could wish . Lamb might have said the same thing ; Stevenson even more emphatically . As a method of self - revelation , not even poetry surpasses the essay . The tradition established by THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY 11.
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... things as he pleases , with a complete disregard of any will but his own , and no one will com- plain so long as his page is interesting . He is the Ariel of literature , and sometimes even the Puck . That THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY 17.
... things as he pleases , with a complete disregard of any will but his own , and no one will com- plain so long as his page is interesting . He is the Ariel of literature , and sometimes even the Puck . That THE GENESIS OF THE ESSAY 17.
Pagina 22
... things were with us at halfe ; me thinkes I have stolne his part from him . " Bacon is never less than a teacher , to whom the attitude of the reader is that of a school - boy in the presence of a sage . Montaigne is always frankly ...
... things were with us at halfe ; me thinkes I have stolne his part from him . " Bacon is never less than a teacher , to whom the attitude of the reader is that of a school - boy in the presence of a sage . Montaigne is always frankly ...
Pagina 24
... things political . Were his books , by some destructive accident , the only literary survivors of Commonwealth times , we could reconstruct from his pages no contemporary picture of the first half of the seventeenth century , when ...
... things political . Were his books , by some destructive accident , the only literary survivors of Commonwealth times , we could reconstruct from his pages no contemporary picture of the first half of the seventeenth century , when ...
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