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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... stand quite as high as it does . Milton's poetical genius is as apparent in " Comus " and " Lycidas " as in his great epic , which most people have thought too long . Addison's " Essay in West- minster Abbey " is more valuable than his ...
... stand quite as high as it does . Milton's poetical genius is as apparent in " Comus " and " Lycidas " as in his great epic , which most people have thought too long . Addison's " Essay in West- minster Abbey " is more valuable than his ...
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... stand in awe of one . The country was convulsed , martyrs were consumed at the stake , country - houses were sacked , the blood of St Bartholomew had been spilt , the white plume of Navarre was shining in the front of battle . Amid all ...
... stand in awe of one . The country was convulsed , martyrs were consumed at the stake , country - houses were sacked , the blood of St Bartholomew had been spilt , the white plume of Navarre was shining in the front of battle . Amid all ...
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... stand blinded by the splendours of sunrise . The sunrise has melted into the light of common day . The air has become emptied of wonder . The gods have deserted earth , and men only remain . Long after the poet and the historian comes ...
... stand blinded by the splendours of sunrise . The sunrise has melted into the light of common day . The air has become emptied of wonder . The gods have deserted earth , and men only remain . Long after the poet and the historian comes ...
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... stand a too critical examination , for several of the writers mentioned belong now to one cluster and now to another . Essay- writing is a craft vigorously prosecuted in England at present ; and generally the writers will be found to ...
... stand a too critical examination , for several of the writers mentioned belong now to one cluster and now to another . Essay- writing is a craft vigorously prosecuted in England at present ; and generally the writers will be found to ...
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... stand to think what should BORN 1561 : DIED 1626. ] be in it , that men should love lies ; where neither they make for pleasure , as with poets ; nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell this ...
... stand to think what should BORN 1561 : DIED 1626. ] be in it , that men should love lies ; where neither they make for pleasure , as with poets ; nor for advantage , as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell this ...
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