The Rise of Modern Prose StyleM.I.T. Press, 1968 - 372 pagina's |
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Pagina 45
Robert Adolph. Imitation and Useful Prose If there is one thread running through all Bacon's scattered comments on style , it is a distrust of all imitation . His one reference to Tacitus as a stylist counsels explicitly against it ...
Robert Adolph. Imitation and Useful Prose If there is one thread running through all Bacon's scattered comments on style , it is a distrust of all imitation . His one reference to Tacitus as a stylist counsels explicitly against it ...
Pagina 46
... imitate them . The danger of imitation , as Bacon repeatedly states , is not that it duplicates the style imitated - which would not be so bad , for eloquence has its uses - but that it leads to abuses of it , to " excess , " as well as ...
... imitate them . The danger of imitation , as Bacon repeatedly states , is not that it duplicates the style imitated - which would not be so bad , for eloquence has its uses - but that it leads to abuses of it , to " excess , " as well as ...
Pagina 160
... imitation , words desig- nate the immediate motions of the inmost soul rather than an elegant and ornate ideal . " What conclusion , then , except that we may learn from Cicero himself how to imitate Ci- cero ? Let us imitate him as he ...
... imitation , words desig- nate the immediate motions of the inmost soul rather than an elegant and ornate ideal . " What conclusion , then , except that we may learn from Cicero himself how to imitate Ci- cero ? Let us imitate him as he ...
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