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Pagina 108
The high - flown 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 ...
The high - flown 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 ...
Pagina 166
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 flowery than his translation . Metaphors of which Homer never ...
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 flowery than his translation . Metaphors of which Homer never ...
Pagina 288
You readily perceive that , in speaking of 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 .
You readily perceive that , in speaking of 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 .
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | A Manual of Good English |
| Auteur | William Jayne Weston |
| Uitgever | George Newnes, 1950 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 27 sep 2007 |
| Lengte | 318 pagina's |
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