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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... genius of Shakespeare , 358 The perishable nature of poetical fame ,. 359 243 244 · 249 • • Streams , 360 257 · • On the conduct of life ; or , advice to a schoolboy , · HENRY MACKENZIE , Tale of La Roche , • The New Year , 376 ...
... genius of Shakespeare , 358 The perishable nature of poetical fame ,. 359 243 244 · 249 • • Streams , 360 257 · • On the conduct of life ; or , advice to a schoolboy , · HENRY MACKENZIE , Tale of La Roche , • The New Year , 376 ...
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... 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 tragedy . Macaulay's Essays on Clive and Warren ...
... 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 tragedy . Macaulay's Essays on Clive and Warren ...
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... genius . His plans widened , however , as his way cleared ; and the eye which had looked into the heart of Goethe , Schiller , and Richter , was in course of time turned on the Scottish Burns , the English Johnson , and the French ...
... genius . His plans widened , however , as his way cleared ; and the eye which had looked into the heart of Goethe , Schiller , and Richter , was in course of time turned on the Scottish Burns , the English Johnson , and the French ...
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... genius , and the force of his lan - poesy , " vinum dæmonum ; " because it filleth the guage , gave him a greater advantage even than his learn- ing , while his keen perception of the true and beautiful , and his analytic powers , have ...
... genius , and the force of his lan - poesy , " vinum dæmonum ; " because it filleth the guage , gave him a greater advantage even than his learn- ing , while his keen perception of the true and beautiful , and his analytic powers , have ...
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... genius that ever existed . " - W . S. Landor . " The opinions contained in his Essays - ob- servations and precepts on man and society - are perhaps the most permanent evidence of his sagacity . In this field he was thoroughly at home ...
... genius that ever existed . " - W . S. Landor . " The opinions contained in his Essays - ob- servations and precepts on man and society - are perhaps the most permanent evidence of his sagacity . In this field he was thoroughly at home ...
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