Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... essay these divisions are defensible , 53 and possibly useful , although they are always open to the commonplace objection that no great change in thought can be said to begin as invariably and inevitably as Grouse - shooting or the Law ...
... essay these divisions are defensible , 53 and possibly useful , although they are always open to the commonplace objection that no great change in thought can be said to begin as invariably and inevitably as Grouse - shooting or the Law ...
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... essay of Bacon as from the essay of Temple , set the model to its own day and to ours . Under Richardson and Fielding it gave us what was practically the modern Novel ; under Hume and Robertson and Gibbon , what was practi- cally the ...
... essay of Bacon as from the essay of Temple , set the model to its own day and to ours . Under Richardson and Fielding it gave us what was practically the modern Novel ; under Hume and Robertson and Gibbon , what was practi- cally the ...
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... Essay of Addison and Steele . The finished and careful papers of Addison reacted . upon those of his editor , whom they stimulated to a higher ambition , as well as to an elegance , a purity , and a correctness ( the words are Steele's ...
... Essay of Addison and Steele . The finished and careful papers of Addison reacted . upon those of his editor , whom they stimulated to a higher ambition , as well as to an elegance , a purity , and a correctness ( the words are Steele's ...
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... Essay , as a branch of that ' ingenious way of Miscellaneous Writing ' upon the introducer of which Lord Shaftesbury invokes ironic benediction , had found special form , a form admirably adapted for short swallow - flights of criticism ...
... Essay , as a branch of that ' ingenious way of Miscellaneous Writing ' upon the introducer of which Lord Shaftesbury invokes ironic benediction , had found special form , a form admirably adapted for short swallow - flights of criticism ...
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... Essay on Criticism , that Wit and Fine Writing doth not consist so much in ad- vancing Things that are new , as in giving Things that are known an agreeable Turn ' - in other words , it is concerned less with the revelation of the ...
... Essay on Criticism , that Wit and Fine Writing doth not consist so much in ad- vancing Things that are new , as in giving Things that are known an agreeable Turn ' - in other words , it is concerned less with the revelation of the ...
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