Which preposition to use with essays

on Occurrences 1235%

Have you, my good friend, seen my last essay on morbid action?" The Brahmin replied, that he had not yet had an opportunity of meeting with it.

in Occurrences 299%

John Addington Symonds says: "It is the first attempt in any literature to portray subjective emotion exterior to the writer; since the days of Virgil and Ovid, nothing had been essayed in this region of mental analysis.

of Occurrences 250%

,' said Miss Townsend,' do you mind looking at this essay of Archie's?

by Occurrences 96%

Turning over the pages of this book now we have the impression that it is a collection of literary essays by a man who had his eye on posterity and assumed a pose most likely to attract the admiration of generations as yet unborn.

of Occurrences 89%

Elia was born, and with it he may be said to have died,although some of his later contributions to the "New Monthly" and to the "Englishman's Magazine" were included in the "Last Essays of Elia," collected and published in 1833.

in Occurrences 83%

Woodberry's Appreciation of Literature (Baker & Taylor Co.); Gates's Studies in Appreciation (Macmillan); Bates's Talks on the Study of Literature (Houghton, Mifflin); Worsfold's On the Exercise of Judgment in Literature (Dent); Harrison's The Choice of Books (Macmillan); Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies, Part I; Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism.

for Occurrences 46%

Here he wrote some of his finest critical essays for the reviews, and that "rag of a book," as he calls it, the "Life of Schiller."

on Occurrences 40%

" He waved his thin hand toward a rude shelf on which were several well-worn City Directories of remote dates, volumes of Patent Office Reports for the years '57 and '59, a copy of Mr. GREELEY'S Essays on Political Economy, an edition of the Corporation Manual, the Coast Survey for 1850, and other inflaming statistical works, which had been sent to him in his exile by thoughtful friends who had no place to keep them.

to Occurrences 32%

[Footnote 3: See Hooker's Introductory Essay to the Flora of Tasmania, p. xxiii.]

from Occurrences 23%

He has an extraordinary knowledge of eighteenth-century literature, and he reproduces its style in detail, going so far as to insert in his narrative an alleged essay from the Tatler.

toward Occurrences 22%

You can make your first essay toward the rich match this evening.

with Occurrences 22%

With subtle irony he notes that Wilson talked like a University don criticizing an essay with the didactic logic of the professor.

at Occurrences 17%

It was my purpose, in projecting the essays at what seemed to me to be the dawn of a great religious era, to help the onward movement by a few earnest words.

as Occurrences 11%

A proof that Ann Simmons and Alice Wn are one has been found in the circumstance that Miss Simmons did marry a Mr. Bartrum, or Bartram, mentioned by Lamb in this essay as being the father of Alice's real children.

towards Occurrences 10%

Ben Johnson in his discoveries has made a sort of essay towards the character of Shakespear.

about Occurrences 7%

You know he's written an essay about it; says it is vulgar, and entirely inharmonious with that Revelation of Humanity that is found in the teachings of Comte.

against Occurrences 7%

But notwithstanding his application to study, and all the efforts he was capable of making, such was his propensity to gaining, that he was often stript of all his money; and his father severely chiding him, and threatening to abandon him if he did not reform, he wrote a little essay against that vice, and presented it to his father, to convince him of his resolution against it.

for Occurrences 6%

David McKay Co., Inc. (PWH); 22Jan68; R427977. CONGLETON, J. E. Essays for better reading.

BY Occurrences 6%

I WITH INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS BY WILLIAM J. DAWSON AND CONINGSBY W. DAWSON MCMX ACKNOWLEDGMENT To the publishers and authors who have courteously permitted the use of copyrighted material in these two volumes, a word of grateful acknowledgment is hereby given by the editors.

into Occurrences 5%

Lamb lifted this essay into the London Magazine from The Examiner, where it had appeared on November 7 and 8, 1819, with slight changes.

without Occurrences 4%

Are the Rich Happy? Let me admit at the outset that I write this essay without adequate material.

than Occurrences 4%

And hence no higher life was essayed than that which furnished sensual enjoyments, or incited an ambition to be strong and powerful.

toward Occurrences 4%

MCCALLUM, JAMES DOW, joint author Essays toward truth.

like Occurrences 4%

He rattled away to Dr. Johnson: 'You are a clever fellow, to be sure; but you cannot write an essay like Addison, or verses like the RAPE OF THE LOCK.'

from Occurrences 3%

The Critic, January, 1881, Edward Eggleston; reprinted in Essays from the Critic, 1881.

Which preposition to use with  essays