Copeland's Treasury for Booklovers, Volume 1C. Scribner's Sons, 1927 - American literature |
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Page xi
... called Essays ; the word is late , but the thing is ancient . For Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius , if one mark them well , are but Essays , —that is , dispersed Meditations . " What Bacon intended , that he did . The final result is the ...
... called Essays ; the word is late , but the thing is ancient . For Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius , if one mark them well , are but Essays , —that is , dispersed Meditations . " What Bacon intended , that he did . The final result is the ...
Page xiii
... called him , and none the less a saint upon earth because he could not help drinking too much . The failing never kept him from his life - long duty . We may be sorry for it . We must be endlessly sorry because it grieved him and his ...
... called him , and none the less a saint upon earth because he could not help drinking too much . The failing never kept him from his life - long duty . We may be sorry for it . We must be endlessly sorry because it grieved him and his ...
Page xiv
... called a theocracy . Although the church - members probably felt themselves nearer the Unseen than any like body of modern men except the Scottish Covenanters , yet the gist of all their praying was , in the words of the hymn , " for a ...
... called a theocracy . Although the church - members probably felt themselves nearer the Unseen than any like body of modern men except the Scottish Covenanters , yet the gist of all their praying was , in the words of the hymn , " for a ...
Page xv
... called the frisson historique . For , however he starts with a subject taken from history , in nine cases out of ten he either gives it an eerie twist , or makes it a mere point of departure into conscience- land , where , as an artist ...
... called the frisson historique . For , however he starts with a subject taken from history , in nine cases out of ten he either gives it an eerie twist , or makes it a mere point of departure into conscience- land , where , as an artist ...
Page xix
... called Mr. Pickwick a middle - class Don Quixote , and Sam Weller a cockney Sancho Panza . Though the comparison is inexact , especially concerning Sam , Mr. Pickwick , nevertheless - like Colonel Newcome , and Parson Adams , and My ...
... called Mr. Pickwick a middle - class Don Quixote , and Sam Weller a cockney Sancho Panza . Though the comparison is inexact , especially concerning Sam , Mr. Pickwick , nevertheless - like Colonel Newcome , and Parson Adams , and My ...
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