The Literary Comparison in Jacobean ProsePrinceton University, 1926 - 97 pagina's |
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Pagina 50
... seem almost falsehoods , and some falsehoods almost truths ; wherein false- hoods and truths seem almost aequilibrously stated , and but a few grains of distinction to bear down the balance . Some have digged deep , yet glanced by the ...
... seem almost falsehoods , and some falsehoods almost truths ; wherein false- hoods and truths seem almost aequilibrously stated , and but a few grains of distinction to bear down the balance . Some have digged deep , yet glanced by the ...
Pagina 58
... seems complex . But the idea behind the adroit combination of words is neither deep nor original . A pretty fancy , a bright description , an extravagant compli- ment , a trite maxim - such is the substance one finds in the Petrarcan ...
... seems complex . But the idea behind the adroit combination of words is neither deep nor original . A pretty fancy , a bright description , an extravagant compli- ment , a trite maxim - such is the substance one finds in the Petrarcan ...
Pagina 77
... seems incapable of expressing himself without frequent recourse to metaphorical language . When he is speculating in philosophy he seems naturally disposed to find metaphorical conceits appropriate to his musings , and the metaphor more ...
... seems incapable of expressing himself without frequent recourse to metaphorical language . When he is speculating in philosophy he seems naturally disposed to find metaphorical conceits appropriate to his musings , and the metaphor more ...
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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