- Paris Leónhas quoted2 years ago
while “undigested” is the last epithet to be applied to the essays of Montaigne, Addison or Lamb - Paris Leónhas quoted2 years agowas too delicate to tempt an imitator.
- Paris Leónhas quoted2 years agoAbraham Cowley wrote eleven “Several Discourses by way of Essays,”
- Paris Leónhas quoted2 years agoCowley’s essay “Of Myself” is a model of what these little compositions should be.
- Paris Leónhas quoted2 years agoEverything in an essay must be subdued to that end. It should lay us under a spell with its first word, and we should only wake, refreshed, with its last.
- Paris Leónhas quoted2 years agobut what art can the essayist use in these short lengths of prose to sting us wide awake and fix us in a trance which is not sleep but rather an intensification of life—a basking, with every faculty alert, in the sun of pleasure? He must know—that is the first essential—how to write.
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“Extraordinary business this, Monsieur Poirot. - b3148532147has quoted2 years agoThe Tragedy at Marsdon Manor
- b3148532147has quoted2 years agoWe took the hint.
- b3148532147has quoted2 years agoslightly past the prime of life
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