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... whole resolves itself under his skilled analysis into a series of sonnets , epigrams , maxims , but especially of deliberate essays on set themes . The themes are poverty , riches , gluttony , inordinate pleasure , friend- ship , gossip ...
... whole resolves itself under his skilled analysis into a series of sonnets , epigrams , maxims , but especially of deliberate essays on set themes . The themes are poverty , riches , gluttony , inordinate pleasure , friend- ship , gossip ...
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... whole studious youth of Europe flocked . That same noble curiosity and spirit of inquiry into the traditions of mankind which had hurried Christendom across the breadth of a continent , armed and militant , sceptical or penitent , to ...
... whole studious youth of Europe flocked . That same noble curiosity and spirit of inquiry into the traditions of mankind which had hurried Christendom across the breadth of a continent , armed and militant , sceptical or penitent , to ...
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... whole wittily touched and virile with broad humour . Sometimes the discourse was in reality a racy fable , rich in local allusion , and excusable only by 1 The Friars first landed in England in 1221. The two most important orders were ...
... whole wittily touched and virile with broad humour . Sometimes the discourse was in reality a racy fable , rich in local allusion , and excusable only by 1 The Friars first landed in England in 1221. The two most important orders were ...
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... whole importance of Sir Thomas Browne's contribution to the evolution of the essay ; he widens its borders when he uses it , by fixing his gaze upon the heavens . He was a man of sidereal modes of thought and helped to enfranchise the ...
... whole importance of Sir Thomas Browne's contribution to the evolution of the essay ; he widens its borders when he uses it , by fixing his gaze upon the heavens . He was a man of sidereal modes of thought and helped to enfranchise the ...
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... whole Books thereof . They that found themselves on the radical balsome , or vital sulphur of the parts , determine not why Abel lived not so long as Adam . There is therefore a secret glome or bottome of our days : ' twas His wisdom to ...
... whole Books thereof . They that found themselves on the radical balsome , or vital sulphur of the parts , determine not why Abel lived not so long as Adam . There is therefore a secret glome or bottome of our days : ' twas His wisdom to ...
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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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Addison admirable April Fool Bacon beauty Bishop Bishop of Beauvais called Carlyle character Charles Lamb Charlesfort critical Daniel Defoe death Defoe delight Domrémy earth English essayists eyes fancy fear feel France garret genius give Goldsmith grave Gray hand hath hear heard heart heaven honour human humour hundred John Milton Johnson Jonathan Swift lady learned letter essay literary literature live look Lord Matthew Arnold ment Milton mind Montaigne moral nature never night observe Oliver Goldsmith once pain pass passion perhaps person pleasure poem poet poetry poor prose reader rest Richard Dowling Samuel Johnson seemed short-story essay sometimes soul spirit Stella style suffer sweet Swift thee things Thomas De Quincey thou thought tion told true truth turn verse whole William Hazlitt words writes young