The Rise of Modern Prose StyleM.I.T. Press, 1968 - 372 pagina's |
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Pagina 65
... seems to have admired certain aspects of Seneca's theory of style . Bacon's preference for matter over words , as we have seen , may have derived from Seneca . " Seneca maketh the comparison well " of sophistry to jug- gling tricks ( p ...
... seems to have admired certain aspects of Seneca's theory of style . Bacon's preference for matter over words , as we have seen , may have derived from Seneca . " Seneca maketh the comparison well " of sophistry to jug- gling tricks ( p ...
Pagina 162
... seems insignificant by compari- son . Except for a few essayists and character - writers Wil- liamson's description of Senecanism as the " most incisive pattern " ( p . 9 ) in the prose of the seventeenth century seems an exaggeration ...
... seems insignificant by compari- son . Except for a few essayists and character - writers Wil- liamson's description of Senecanism as the " most incisive pattern " ( p . 9 ) in the prose of the seventeenth century seems an exaggeration ...
Pagina 255
... seems struck off in the first heat of composition . The intention of a style like Florio's seems to be the articulation of the mind of the writer or " speaker " himself in contrast to the impersonal , " precise " Restoration vein . Just ...
... seems struck off in the first heat of composition . The intention of a style like Florio's seems to be the articulation of the mind of the writer or " speaker " himself in contrast to the impersonal , " precise " Restoration vein . Just ...
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