A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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Page 84
... readers , and want of this knowledge hath occasioned much puzzling ; for where a book or chapter or para- graph hath seemed to the reader to contain Nothing , his modesty hath sometimes persuaded him that the true meaning of the author ...
... readers , and want of this knowledge hath occasioned much puzzling ; for where a book or chapter or para- graph hath seemed to the reader to contain Nothing , his modesty hath sometimes persuaded him that the true meaning of the author ...
Page 208
... reader's attention . If the reader has ever witnessed a wife , daughter , or sister in a fainting- fit , he may chance to have observed that the most affecting moment in such a spectacle is that in which a sigh and a stirring announce ...
... reader's attention . If the reader has ever witnessed a wife , daughter , or sister in a fainting- fit , he may chance to have observed that the most affecting moment in such a spectacle is that in which a sigh and a stirring announce ...
Page 408
... reader can forget the description of the Thunder in Roderick Random : the disorderly tyranny ; the cruelty and dirt of officers and men ; deck after deck , each with some new object of offence ; the hospital , where the hammocks were ...
... reader can forget the description of the Thunder in Roderick Random : the disorderly tyranny ; the cruelty and dirt of officers and men ; deck after deck , each with some new object of offence ; the hospital , where the hammocks were ...
Contents
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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