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... writing , is accepted as an essay ; and it is tolerably certain that the essay commenced its career as an oral ... written knowledge , taught men orally , in return for money , that which we should now learn in a library . These ...
... writing , is accepted as an essay ; and it is tolerably certain that the essay commenced its career as an oral ... written knowledge , taught men orally , in return for money , that which we should now learn in a library . These ...
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... written down by their disciples . It appears certain that they set the model for Bacon . Printed side by side , Bacon's essay on Truth , and the essay of Jesus the Son of Sirach on Gossip , reveal astonishing similarities , particularly ...
... written down by their disciples . It appears certain that they set the model for Bacon . Printed side by side , Bacon's essay on Truth , and the essay of Jesus the Son of Sirach on Gossip , reveal astonishing similarities , particularly ...
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... written word made its earliest appearance not as a single effort , but as a passage interpolated in a larger work ... writing , who set the standard of form and excellence for all future ages . As an essayist his work is even more ...
... written word made its earliest appearance not as a single effort , but as a passage interpolated in a larger work ... writing , who set the standard of form and excellence for all future ages . As an essayist his work is even more ...
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... written essay obviously dates from the invention of the printing - press . On the day when Caxton set up his wooden printing - press at Westminster ( vide Great English Letter - Writers , vol . i , p . 22 ) , the real en- franchisement ...
... written essay obviously dates from the invention of the printing - press . On the day when Caxton set up his wooden printing - press at Westminster ( vide Great English Letter - Writers , vol . i , p . 22 ) , the real en- franchisement ...
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... written with an easy sense of power and complete command of wide resources , bring us nearer to Johnson than anything else which he has written . It is perhaps not surprising that Johnson set the most value on the work that cost him ...
... written with an easy sense of power and complete command of wide resources , bring us nearer to Johnson than anything else which he has written . It is perhaps not surprising that Johnson set the most value on the work that cost him ...
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Page 329 - Fair youth beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page 290 - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?
Page 337 - Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth...
Page 319 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 41 - Truth, indeed, came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on...
Page 222 - So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names to mention — none I think, however, so great or so gloomy.
Page 262 - He heeded not reviling tones, Nor sold his heart to idle moans, Tho' cursed and scorn'd, and bruised with stones; 'But looking upward, full of grace, He pray'd, and from a happy place God's glory smote him on the face.
Page 291 - Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive to us, — for that moment only.
Page 183 - I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum.
Page 145 - I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse, with this particular pleasure which gives the only true relish to all conversation, a sense that every one of us liked each other. I went home, considering the different conditions of a married life and that of a bachelor ; and I must confess it struck me with a secret concern to reflect that whenever I go off I shall leave no traces behind me. In this pensive mood I...