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... because no one has taken the trouble to clear it away . Given on the one side a certain conversational way of talking English , inaccurate or rather licentious as all conversational ways of speaking are xxii ENGLISH PROSE STYLE .
... because no one has taken the trouble to clear it away . Given on the one side a certain conversational way of talking English , inaccurate or rather licentious as all conversational ways of speaking are xxii ENGLISH PROSE STYLE .
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From Malory to Macaulay George Saintsbury. or rather licentious as all conversational ways of speaking are , and on the other side a habit of writing exact and formal Latin , what had happened was what naturally would happen . Dryden ...
From Malory to Macaulay George Saintsbury. or rather licentious as all conversational ways of speaking are , and on the other side a habit of writing exact and formal Latin , what had happened was what naturally would happen . Dryden ...
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... speak of the eighteenth century as reactionary , and yet , in regard to its prose style , it to some extent deserves ... speaking and writing , and the Latinisms of the extreme Johnsonian style , may seem to have but little to do with ...
... speak of the eighteenth century as reactionary , and yet , in regard to its prose style , it to some extent deserves ... speaking and writing , and the Latinisms of the extreme Johnsonian style , may seem to have but little to do with ...
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... speaking generally — with Burke and Gibbon speaking particularly - what may be called the con- sciously or unconsciously formative period of English prose came to an end . In the hundred years that have since passed we have had not a ...
... speaking generally — with Burke and Gibbon speaking particularly - what may be called the con- sciously or unconsciously formative period of English prose came to an end . In the hundred years that have since passed we have had not a ...
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... speaking , it was not admitted before 1850 that the best models for a young man in prose could be any other than the chief ornaments of English literature from Swift and Addison to Gibbon and Burke . The examples of the great writers ...
... speaking , it was not admitted before 1850 that the best models for a young man in prose could be any other than the chief ornaments of English literature from Swift and Addison to Gibbon and Burke . The examples of the great writers ...
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Addison APHRA BEHN appear authority Barnardine beauty better body born breath called character church Cicero common conversation Conyers Middleton cried DAVID HUME death died divine effect enemy England English prose eyes faculty fancy father favour fear friends GEORGE BERKELEY GILBERT BURNET give hand hath heard heaven honour Horace Walpole horse human humour imagination JONATHAN SWIFT kind king knowledge lady Lady Mary Pierrepont laws less literary live London look Lord manner Mansoul matter means mind miracle nation nature never observed once passions perhaps person pleasure poetry poor prince principles racter reason religion ROBERT SOUTH seemed Seithenyn sense Sir Ector sometimes soul spirit style suffer suppose temper things THOMAS GRAY thou thought tion TOBIAS SMOLLETT told took truth unto virtue whole William Waller words writers
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