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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... become phosphorescent , was in possession of the stage . Dryden had taken immortal vengeance on his foes . Fragments of Butler's wit sparkled like grains of salt in the conversation of men of fashion . English literature was already ...
... become phosphorescent , was in possession of the stage . Dryden had taken immortal vengeance on his foes . Fragments of Butler's wit sparkled like grains of salt in the conversation of men of fashion . English literature was already ...
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... become extensive enough and important enough to awaken curiosity ; men are anxious to know how events did actually occur , and what relation one event bears to another . When he appears , the national temper has cooled down - men no ...
... become extensive enough and important enough to awaken curiosity ; men are anxious to know how events did actually occur , and what relation one event bears to another . When he appears , the national temper has cooled down - men no ...
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... become humane and charit- able ; as it is seen sometimes in friars . Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it . OF BOLDNESS . It is a trivial grammar - school text , but yet ...
... become humane and charit- able ; as it is seen sometimes in friars . Nuptial love maketh mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it . OF BOLDNESS . It is a trivial grammar - school text , but yet ...
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... become in the end themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy of for- tune , whose wings they thought by their self- wisdom to have pinioned . OF DESPATCH . Affected despatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be . It ...
... become in the end themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy of for- tune , whose wings they thought by their self- wisdom to have pinioned . OF DESPATCH . Affected despatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be . It ...
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... ambitious men , if they find the way open for their rising , and still get forward , they are So checked in their desires , they become secretly perceived in privateness , for there is no affecta- tion 28 THE ENGLISH ESSAYISTS .
... ambitious men , if they find the way open for their rising , and still get forward , they are So checked in their desires , they become secretly perceived in privateness , for there is no affecta- tion 28 THE ENGLISH ESSAYISTS .
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