The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great Essayists, from Lord Bacon to John RuskinW.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1887 - 536 páginas |
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... fancy , and playful humour , which exist in such rich abundance in the English Essay . While scarcely possible to give specimens from every author who has been distinguished as an Essayist , especially in more recent times , yet it is ...
... fancy , and playful humour , which exist in such rich abundance in the English Essay . While scarcely possible to give specimens from every author who has been distinguished as an Essayist , especially in more recent times , yet it is ...
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... fancy , 31 Of recreations , 32 · Of tombs , 32 . Of books , 32 Of marriage , 33 34 34 ABRAHAM COWLEY . • 35 Of solitude , • Of agriculture , The garden , 37 37 Jactura vitæ , 37 company , Natura non effæta , 87 Maritus improbus , . 37 ...
... fancy , 31 Of recreations , 32 · Of tombs , 32 . Of books , 32 Of marriage , 33 34 34 ABRAHAM COWLEY . • 35 Of solitude , • Of agriculture , The garden , 37 37 Jactura vitæ , 37 company , Natura non effæta , 87 Maritus improbus , . 37 ...
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... fancy in his cap . They brought style to perfection . But even then one could see that a change was setting in . A poor gentleman down at Olney , under the strong power of the world to come , was feeding his hares , and writing poems of ...
... fancy in his cap . They brought style to perfection . But even then one could see that a change was setting in . A poor gentleman down at Olney , under the strong power of the world to come , was feeding his hares , and writing poems of ...
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... fancy , humour , and tenderness , which resembled the fancy , humour , and tenderness of no other writer . The manifestations of these qualities were as personal and peculiar as his expression of countenance , the stutter in his speech ...
... fancy , humour , and tenderness , which resembled the fancy , humour , and tenderness of no other writer . The manifestations of these qualities were as personal and peculiar as his expression of countenance , the stutter in his speech ...
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... fancy , spurts of humour , grotesque imaginative exaggerations ; and these things so reduce and tone one another down , that the final result is perfectly natural and homogeneous . It is only by some such combina- tion of intellectual ...
... fancy , spurts of humour , grotesque imaginative exaggerations ; and these things so reduce and tone one another down , that the final result is perfectly natural and homogeneous . It is only by some such combina- tion of intellectual ...
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admiration affection appear atheism Augustus Cæsar beauty Ben Jonson better called cern character Coleridge common creature death delight divine doth Dr Johnson dream earth England eyes fancy fear feel fortune genius give hand happy hath heart heaven honour hour human humour imagination Julius Cæsar kind king knowledge labour lady learning less live look Lord Lord Byron man's mankind manner marriage matter ment Milton mind nature ness never night object observed opinion pain Paradise Lost pass passion perhaps person Pilgrim's Progress pleasure Plutarch poem poet poetry Quakers reason Roger de Coverley Scotland seems sense Shakespeare Sir Roger soul speak spirit Stesichorus taste Tatler tell thee things thou thought tion true truth Virgil virtue walk whole wise woman words write young