The Literary Comparison in Jacobean Prose

adorned alliteration aphorism aphoristic appears Arcadia Ascham Attic Prose Attic style Bacon becomes Browne Browne's Burton cause character Cicero Ciceronian cited clarity commonplace comparison contrast deliberately Democritus device Donne's doth drawn effect elaborate English Euphues Euphuism expression fact favorite Felltham following example following figure following passage Francis Bacon frequently Fuller Hall hath Holy homeliness idea illustration imitation incisive Jacobean Age Jacobean prose language Latin Letters libertine literary Lyly Lyly's matter means mediaeval Latin Meditations and Vows Montaigne Muret nature never obscurity observation original parisons peace Petrarcan conceit Petrarch philosophy phrase practical Professor Croll Reader Religio Medici rhetorical Seneca sentence Sermons seventeenth century conceit significant Silver Age simile Sir Henry Wotton stylistic subtlety sustained metaphor Table Talk Tacitus terse things thinking thou thought tion traits true truth ture typical unto VIII virtue words Wotton writers