English Literature in Fact & Story: Being a Brief Account of Its Writers & Their Backgrounds, Matters Very Necessary to be Known by the Gentle Reader of Polite Letters. To which are Added for His Greater Edification Many Amusing & Famous Anecdotes and Much Other Illustrative Material with Maps, Charts, & PicturesCentury Company, 1929 - 505 pagina's |
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Pagina 202
... essays , but the last are all that are still important . Their skilfully portrayed char- acters contributed an important element to the later Eng- lish novel , and their pleasant style and manner set a fashion for informal personal essays ...
... essays , but the last are all that are still important . Their skilfully portrayed char- acters contributed an important element to the later Eng- lish novel , and their pleasant style and manner set a fashion for informal personal essays ...
Pagina 204
... essays are the more instructive and carefully written ; Steele's the more humorous and lively . The essays appealed especially to the upper middle class , and were imitated in a large number of similar journals throughout the century ...
... essays are the more instructive and carefully written ; Steele's the more humorous and lively . The essays appealed especially to the upper middle class , and were imitated in a large number of similar journals throughout the century ...
Pagina 344
... essays . Most of his essays are ostensibly reviews of books , but usually he uses the books only as a starting point . The essays are brilliant and very readable discussions of their subjects , which mostly concern au- thors or ...
... essays . Most of his essays are ostensibly reviews of books , but usually he uses the books only as a starting point . The essays are brilliant and very readable discussions of their subjects , which mostly concern au- thors or ...
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THE BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 3 |
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
Age of Prose In the South | 25 |
Copyright | |
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