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Definition of Essayists
1. essayist [n] - See also: essayist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Essayists
Literary usage of Essayists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Literature by John Calvin Metcalf (1912)
"Victorian writers may be divided into three great classes—the essayists, ... I.
THE essayists The greater essayists of this period are Macaulay, Carlyle, ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"CHAPTER XIII Later essayists WHEN, speaking to his classmates on their graduation
... of lecturer- essayists where Emerson shone as the most benignant star, ..."
3. Thackerayana: Notes and Anecdotes Illustrated by Hundreds of Sketches by by Joseph] [Grego, William Makepeace Thackeray (1898)
"Early essayists whose Writings have furnished Thackeray with the ... Characteristic
Passages from the Lucubrations of the essayists of the Augustan Era ..."
4. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"CHAPTER III JOHNSON, GOLDSMITH, AND THE LATER essayists ... And style — Goldsmith —
His verse — His prose — Other essayists THE establishment of the calling ..."
5. The Literature of Roguery by Frank Wadleigh Chandler (1907)
"MARRYAT AND THE essayists America, reappears upon the high seas as the very ...
Marryat and the essayists In construction most of the novels of Captain ..."
6. Lectures on the English Comic Writers by William Hazlitt (1845)
"I NOW come to speak of that sort of writing which has been so successfully
cultivated in this country by our periodical essayists, and which consists in ..."
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