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Pagina 108
... style of writing - full of antitheses and of strange similes derived usually from animals or vegetables or minerals - was for long eagerly copied . EUPHUISM is the name applied to the style . EUPHUISTIC is the adjective derived from the ...
... style of writing - full of antitheses and of strange similes derived usually from animals or vegetables or minerals - was for long eagerly copied . EUPHUISM is the name applied to the style . EUPHUISTIC is the adjective derived from the ...
Pagina 166
... style when they arise naturally from your subject matter . For you readily realise that a style may be too flowery . Here is what William Cowper says about Pope's translation of Homer : The garden in all the gaiety of June is less ...
... style when they arise naturally from your subject matter . For you readily realise that a style may be too flowery . Here is what William Cowper says about Pope's translation of Homer : The garden in all the gaiety of June is less ...
Pagina 288
... style , you are not blaming one manner of writing and praising another . A simple style may be a delight to the readers ; but , then , so also may an ornate style . Here is what Dr. Johnson said in answer to Boswell's We find people ...
... style , you are not blaming one manner of writing and praising another . A simple style may be a delight to the readers ; but , then , so also may an ornate style . Here is what Dr. Johnson said in answer to Boswell's We find people ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing