 | 1895 - 334 pągines
...advantage than in the pages where he magnifies his office and makes himself the essayist of the essay. "The essay, as a literary form, resembles the lyric,...around it as the cocoon grows around the silkworm The essayist is a kind of poet in prose, and if harshly questioned as to his uses, he might be unable to... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 476 pągines
..."Writing of Essays," — * The essay, as a literary form, resembles the lyric, in so far as it is molded by some central mood, — whimsical, serious, or satirical....around it as the cocoon grows around the silkworm. The essay writer is a chartered libertine, and a law unto himself. A quick ear and eye, an ability to discern... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 pągines
...speak of the fitness of things. Alexander Smith says, in his essay on the "Writing of Essays,"— " The essay, as a literary form, resembles the lyric, in so far as it is molded by some central mood,—whimsical, serious, or satirical. Give the mood, and the essay, from... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 pągines
...of the fitness of things. Alexander Smith says, in his essay on the "Writing of Essays," — • " The essay, as a literary form, resembles the lyric, in so far as it is molded by some central mood, — whimsical, serious, or satirical. Give the mood, and the essay, from... | |
 | Charles Frederick Tweney - 1915 - 936 pągines
...country. Por. 296 pp. 6J in. Nimmo. Op Pocket ed. 2/- n. Also : New Univ. Library. Routledge. i/- n. " The essay, as a literary form, resembles the lyric,...central mood — whimsical, serious, or satirical. . . . The essay writer is a chartered libertine, and a law unto himself." Thus the author defines the... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1915 - 400 pągines
...Writing of Essays — itself one of the best essays on the art ever written : " The essay," he says, " as a literary form, resembles the lyric, in so far...it as the cocoon grows around the silkworm." " The essayist," he says further, " does not usually appear early in the literary history of a country; he... | |
 | 1916 - 880 pągines
...Professor Walker in his introduction quotes with approval Alexander Smith's definition of the essay : " The essay as a literary form resembles the lyric,...last, grows around it as the cocoon grows around the silk worm." After a brief sketch of the first anticipations of the essay in early Elizabethean prose,... | |
 | Warner Taylor - 1923 - 524 pągines
...hear, weave in my own room my essays as solitarily as the spider weaves his web in the darkened corner. The essay, as a literary form, resembles the lyric, in so far as it is moulded by some central mood—whimsical, serious, or satirical. Give the mood, and the essay, from the first sentence to the... | |
 | 1927 - 416 pągines
...done for him." Alexander Smith, author of "Dreamthorp," a collection of delightful essays, wrote : "The essay, as a literary form, resembles the lyric,...central mood — whimsical, serious, or satirical. Given the mood, and the essay, from the first sentence to the last, grows around it as the cocoon grows... | |
 | Morris Edmund Speare - 1927 - 76 pągines
...Alexander Smith, in Dreamthorp,(l) has explained this admirably. "The essay as a literary form," he says, "resembles the lyric, in so far as it is moulded by...whimsical, serious, or satirical. Give the mood, and the (1) World's Classics, No. 200 essay, from the first sentence to the last, grows around it as the cocoon... | |
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The essay, as a literary form, resembles the lyric, in so far as it is moulded by some central mood — whimsical, serious, or satirical. Give the mood, and the essay, from the first sentence to the last, grows around it as the cocoon grows around the... 
