The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John Ruskin : with Introduction, Biographical Notices, and Critical NotesW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 |
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... poetry - Scottish poetry , 497 500 LIVES OF THE ESSAYISTS , 500 518 · 500 INDEX , • 535 · divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen . viii CONTENTS .
... poetry - Scottish poetry , 497 500 LIVES OF THE ESSAYISTS , 500 518 · 500 INDEX , • 535 · divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen . viii CONTENTS .
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... poet as well as an Essayist , and he carried his poetic fancy with him into prose , where it shone like some splendid bird of the tropics among the sober - coated denizens of the farm - yard . He loved the country ; but one almost ...
... poet as well as an Essayist , and he carried his poetic fancy with him into prose , where it shone like some splendid bird of the tropics among the sober - coated denizens of the farm - yard . He loved the country ; but one almost ...
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... poet or minstrel , who sings heroic exploits , the strength and courage of heroes . These songs pass from individual to individual , and are valuable , not on account of the amount of historic truth , but of the amount of passion and ...
... poet or minstrel , who sings heroic exploits , the strength and courage of heroes . These songs pass from individual to individual , and are valuable , not on account of the amount of historic truth , but of the amount of passion and ...
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... poetry . Like the lyric , it is brief ; and , like the lyric , it demands a certain literary finish and perfection . In a long epic , the poet may now and then be allowed to nod ; in a history , it is not essential that every sentence ...
... poetry . Like the lyric , it is brief ; and , like the lyric , it demands a certain literary finish and perfection . In a long epic , the poet may now and then be allowed to nod ; in a history , it is not essential that every sentence ...
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... poet , when he beheld the act of Agamemnon , that could endure the sacrificing of his own daughter , exclaimed ... poets indeed have been busy with it ; for it is in effect the thing which is figured in that strange fiction of the ...
... poet , when he beheld the act of Agamemnon , that could endure the sacrificing of his own daughter , exclaimed ... poets indeed have been busy with it ; for it is in effect the thing which is figured in that strange fiction of the ...
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