The Great English Essayists: With Introductory Essays and NotesHarper & brothers, 1909 - 351 páginas |
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... true , although in a more limited sense . Aristotle taught by means of the spoken word , and " even of his most famous and undisputed works , the structure is so irregular , and the style so unequal , that it has been with great ...
... true , although in a more limited sense . Aristotle taught by means of the spoken word , and " even of his most famous and undisputed works , the structure is so irregular , and the style so unequal , that it has been with great ...
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... true essayist ; the genial egoist , the man who sits apart from life , divorced from its mean perturbations , yet shrewdly conscious of their causes ; a fugitive without prej- udice , a prophet without passion ; above all , a very human ...
... true essayist ; the genial egoist , the man who sits apart from life , divorced from its mean perturbations , yet shrewdly conscious of their causes ; a fugitive without prej- udice , a prophet without passion ; above all , a very human ...
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... true critical discernment , Gold- smith's exquisite touch and fugitive charm have a much rarer value than Johnson's own laborious magniloquence . Nevertheless , the Johnsonian tradition held sway over his own generation , and until ...
... true critical discernment , Gold- smith's exquisite touch and fugitive charm have a much rarer value than Johnson's own laborious magniloquence . Nevertheless , the Johnsonian tradition held sway over his own generation , and until ...
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... true that their deliberate and largely planned histories are less appreciated by the great majority of readers than their essays . For one man who has read Carlyle's Frederick the Great , a thousand are familiar with his Heroes and Hero ...
... true that their deliberate and largely planned histories are less appreciated by the great majority of readers than their essays . For one man who has read Carlyle's Frederick the Great , a thousand are familiar with his Heroes and Hero ...
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... true , in spite of his disclaimer , that of all his volumi- nous labours , nothing is so likely to survive as his Lives of the Poets , which are critical essays . These " sallies " of a full mind , written with an easy sense of power ...
... true , in spite of his disclaimer , that of all his volumi- nous labours , nothing is so likely to survive as his Lives of the Poets , which are critical essays . These " sallies " of a full mind , written with an easy sense of power ...
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