Pusey's letter to Bishop Tait, urging conviction of the Essayists and Reviewers, ibid, p.
To the bitterness of the attacks upon Darwin, the Essayists and Reviewers, and Bishop Colenso, have succeeded, among really eminent leaders, a far better method and tone.
Irving is describing himself after the fashion of the eighteenth-century essayists at the introduction of a series, and at the end indulges in this little nudge of irony: A great man of Europe, thought I, must .
Like the other Americans of his day he had read a good deal of English literature written in the eighteenth century; and among the essayists of that century who had attracted his attention one was Oliver Goldsmith.
When Bryant was a boy our native writers were, all but Freneau, in the habit of imitating the English poets and essayists who had set the style a full hundred years before.
The typical essayists and historians, Macaulay, Carlyle, Ruskin, with a review of other typical groups of writers in the fields of religion, history and science.
The life and works of Pope, the leading poet of the age; of Swift, a master of satire; of Addison and Steele, the graceful essayists who originated the modern literary magazine.
Even in the nineteenth century Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt carried on the form; as indeed, in a modified shape, many later essayists have aimed at a substantially similar achievement.
One of the favourite objects of ridicule of the past essayists was the virtuoso.
Greater poets we had seen in the reigns of the Georges, greater essayists in the reign of Anne.
The good-humour of the essayists touched with a light and kindly hand every form of affectation, and placed every-day life in the light in which it would be seen by a natural and honest man.
Of older essayists I can think of none who could in any way be said to have a similarity to Chesterton.
In a very charming essay, Max Beerhobm, one of the best essayists of the day, gives warning to very eminent men that if they wish to please their admirers a great deal depends on how they receive those who would pay them homage.
Others have assisted according to their abilities and opportunities, but to the Fabian Essayists belongs the credit of creating the Fabian Society.
There is no evidence, however, that the Essayists supposed that they were about to make an epoch in the history of Socialism.
In April, 1888, the seven Essayists were elected as the Executive Committee, Graham Wallas and William Clarke taking the places of Frank Podmore and W.
The seven Essayists were re-elected to the Executive, and in the record of proceedings at the meeting there is no mention of the proposed volume of essays.
The Essayists and their contemporaries have said their say: it remains for the younger people to accept what they choose, and to add whatever is necessary.
Liberal nostrum of Leasehold Enfranchisement (which theEssayists demolished in a crushing debate); Dr.
At the Annual Meeting in April, 1889, the Essayists were re-elected as the Executive Committee and Sydney Olivier as Honorary Secretary, but he only retained the post till the end of the year.
Of the seven Essayists who virtually founded the Fabian Society only one is still fully in harness, and his working life must necessarily be nearing its term.
All the Essayistsexcept Olivier took part, and in addition Robert E.
Here then it may be said that the rule of the essayists as a body came to an end.
Be this, right reverends, your revenge, For souls the best of cures, Essay Essayists to upset And to review Reviewers.
Now we are told by the most accomplished English essayists that this is a mistake, that it is change, but no progress.
The English essayistshave spent a good deal of time lately in discussing the question whether it is possible to tell a good contemporary book from a bad one.
And if the novelists and essayists have raised a mist about the sex, which it willingly masquerades in, is it not time that the scientists should determine whether the mystery exists in nature or only in the imagination?
The play-writers and essayists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries "worked" this notion continually.
The essayists must be noticed, especially Macaulay, Carlyle, Ruskin, and Pater, and the subject of painting and music studied with its various exponents.
The essayists belong not only to the social history of the period, but also to that of the Church.
The essayists of Queen Anne's reign made a steady and laudable effort to shame people out of these indecorous ways.
They had been bred upon Addison and Goldsmith, the essayists and the poets of the eighteenth century, and in Geoffrey Crayon they recognized and welcomed another member of that delightful literary society.
MILNE This is the sort of urbane pleasantry in which British essayists are prolific and graceful.
The names of some of the most widely bruited essayists of our day are absent from this roster, not by malice, but because I desired to include material less generally known.
There are no essayists with the light touch and social ease of Addison and Steele.
It was the same, or nearly the same, with the English essayists quite down to the beginning of the last century, when they began to cease being.
The essayists of antiquity were the most vagariously garrulous people imaginable.
Essayists are commonly expected to be their own biographers; and perhaps our readers may require some further intelligence concerning the authors of the "Connoisseur.
It remains to acknowledge the friendly aid of those living essayists who are still maintaining the standards and have contributed to the book.
American essayists are left for another day; as are those English writers, like Sir William Temple and Bolingbroke, Macaulay and Matthew Arnold, who have given us the essay in literary full dress.
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