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Collections of representative English Essays have been made before; but, so far as I know, no collection has been made with the double purpose that in this little book has been kept in view. That purpose is, in choosing essays which may fairly be taken to represent the great essayists, to select at the same time such as may in some degree serve as models to those who wish to learn the art of essay-writing. It is true that between the essay as it is practised by the master in literature and the essay as it is practised by the learner there is generally nothing, and there can seldom be much, in common except the name. None the less the best possible way to write the latter is to know something of the former. The way of writing essays is made unnecessarily hard for the writer if as is very often the case, even under favourable circumstances he has read no essays except Bacon s, which, as a Norwegian student of English once truly remarked, are a little old-fashioned, or Macaulay s, which are on too large a scale to be helpful as models. We all begin by imitating when we first attempt to compose; and the reason why youthful essays have often a strong tendency to be obtrusively didactic is simply that the essayist, having no other model, imitates sermons, the nearest approach to an essay with which he is familiar.
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