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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... passion , 224 On simplicity and refinement in writing , 225 SAMUEL JOHNSON . Retirement , • Life sufficient to all purposes if well employed , Repentance , • On forgiveness and revenge , Anningait and Ajut , On the compiling of a ...
... passion , 224 On simplicity and refinement in writing , 225 SAMUEL JOHNSON . Retirement , • Life sufficient to all purposes if well employed , Repentance , • On forgiveness and revenge , Anningait and Ajut , On the compiling of a ...
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... passion and imagery , they contain . Explode to - morrow into mere myth and dream the incidents of the Iliad , and you do not affect in the slightest degree the literary merit of the poem . Still for all men Achilles shouts in the ...
... passion and imagery , they contain . Explode to - morrow into mere myth and dream the incidents of the Iliad , and you do not affect in the slightest degree the literary merit of the poem . Still for all men Achilles shouts in the ...
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... passion in the mind of man so weak , but it mates and masters the fear of death : and there- He breatheth and inspireth light into the face of His chosen . The poet that beautified the sect , that was otherwise inferior to the rest ...
... passion in the mind of man so weak , but it mates and masters the fear of death : and there- He breatheth and inspireth light into the face of His chosen . The poet that beautified the sect , that was otherwise inferior to the rest ...
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... passion , and walketh the streets , and doth not keep home ; " Non est curiosus , quin idem sit malevolus . " Men of noble birth are noted to be envious to- wards new men when they rise : for the distance is altered : and it is like a ...
... passion , and walketh the streets , and doth not keep home ; " Non est curiosus , quin idem sit malevolus . " Men of noble birth are noted to be envious to- wards new men when they rise : for the distance is altered : and it is like a ...
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... passion . You must except nevertheless Marcus Antonius the half partner of the empire of Rome , and Appius Claudius the decemvir and lawgiver ; whereof the former was indeed a voluptuous man and inordinate ; but the latter was an ...
... passion . You must except nevertheless Marcus Antonius the half partner of the empire of Rome , and Appius Claudius the decemvir and lawgiver ; whereof the former was indeed a voluptuous man and inordinate ; but the latter was an ...
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