The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and NotesHarper & brothers, 1909 - 351 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... writing , is accepted as an essay ; and it is tolerably certain that the essay commenced its career as an oral ... written knowledge , taught men orally , in return for money , that which we should now learn in a library . These ...
... writing , is accepted as an essay ; and it is tolerably certain that the essay commenced its career as an oral ... written knowledge , taught men orally , in return for money , that which we should now learn in a library . These ...
Pagina 4
... written down by their disciples . It appears certain that 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 ...
... written down by their disciples . It appears certain that 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 ...
Pagina 5
... written word made its earliest appearance not as a single effort , but as a passage interpolated in a larger work ... writing , who set the standard of form and excellence for all future ages . As an essayist his work is even more ...
... written word made its earliest appearance not as a single effort , but as a passage interpolated in a larger work ... writing , who set the standard of form and excellence for all future ages . As an essayist his work is even more ...
Pagina 10
... written essay obviously dates from the invention of the printing - press . On the day when Caxton set up his wooden printing - press at Westminster ( vide Great English Letter - Writers , vol . i , p . 22 ) , the real en- franchisement ...
... written essay obviously dates from the invention of the printing - press . On the day when Caxton set up his wooden printing - press at Westminster ( vide Great English Letter - Writers , vol . i , p . 22 ) , the real en- franchisement ...
Pagina 15
... written with an easy sense of power and complete command of wide resources , bring us nearer to Johnson than anything else which he has written . It is perhaps not surprising that Johnson set the most value on the work that cost him ...
... written with an easy sense of power and complete command of wide resources , bring us nearer to Johnson than anything else which he has written . It is perhaps not surprising that Johnson set the most value on the work that cost him ...
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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 essayist 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
Populaire passages
Pagina 330 - Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Pagina 290 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Pagina 319 - English man-ofwar, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Pagina 337 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Pagina 29 - It is a strange thing to note the excess of this passion, and how it braves the nature and value of things by this, that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole, is comely in nothing but in love : neither is it merely in the phrase; for whereas it hath been well said, " That the arch " flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have " intelligence, is a man's self...
Pagina 41 - Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on...
Pagina 291 - Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, - for that moment only.
Pagina 237 - And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, And as the hasty fruit before the summer; Which when he that looketh upon it seeth, While it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
Pagina 183 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Pagina 289 - Beautiful city ! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene ! " There are our young barbarians, all at play ! " And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection...