English Prose: Selections, Volume 1Sir Henry Craik Macmillan and Company, 1893 This collection shows the growth and development of English prose by extracts from the principal and most characteristic writers. |
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Pagina 2
... Latin or transmitted through Latin ; by the struggles of the English mind to overcome and assimilate the civilisation of the Roman Empire . Sometimes it is easy , sometimes not so easy , to distinguish the two kinds of thinking , native ...
... Latin or transmitted through Latin ; by the struggles of the English mind to overcome and assimilate the civilisation of the Roman Empire . Sometimes it is easy , sometimes not so easy , to distinguish the two kinds of thinking , native ...
Pagina 3
... Latin in spirit , repeating and adapting ideas that are very far removed from simplicity . While on the one hand there are analogies with the Homeric age and the Homeric poems in Anglo - Saxon society and poetry , on the other hand ...
... Latin in spirit , repeating and adapting ideas that are very far removed from simplicity . While on the one hand there are analogies with the Homeric age and the Homeric poems in Anglo - Saxon society and poetry , on the other hand ...
Pagina 4
... Latin learning , they took the right way to solve it , and were more than fortunate in the machinery they invented and used to adapt and work up the old Latin materials . The difficulty of the problem may easily be underestimated ...
... Latin learning , they took the right way to solve it , and were more than fortunate in the machinery they invented and used to adapt and work up the old Latin materials . The difficulty of the problem may easily be underestimated ...
Pagina 5
... Latin syntax , a danger perhaps greater , which was not so well evaded , the tendency , namely , to get beyond the tones of prose altogether into something half poetical . Prose is more difficult than verse in some stages of literature ...
... Latin syntax , a danger perhaps greater , which was not so well evaded , the tendency , namely , to get beyond the tones of prose altogether into something half poetical . Prose is more difficult than verse in some stages of literature ...
Pagina 6
... Latin influence ; but in some of the varying styles employed in the Chronicles , and in the narratives of the voyages , one comes as near as one may in early English to natural prose - prose of the sort that might have been written by ...
... Latin influence ; but in some of the varying styles employed in the Chronicles , and in the narratives of the voyages , one comes as near as one may in early English to natural prose - prose of the sort that might have been written by ...
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