Usage examples for essence
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For it was by no means his object to represent this or that occurrence, to embrace one side of poetry, and explain it by figures and narrative; but it was his intention, as is plain from the last chapter of the first part, to express the real essence of poetry and explain its inmost aim. – Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
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They were somehow drawn from Brahm's essence, on one occasion when he was awake. – Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen. by Dr. John Scudder