The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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... prose , natural , discreet and pointed . There is no attempt to surprise by an extravagant vocabulary . It looks as ... prose . But perfection has one grave defect : it is apt to be dull . Swift's prose is like a French canal , bordered ...
... prose , natural , discreet and pointed . There is no attempt to surprise by an extravagant vocabulary . It looks as ... prose . But perfection has one grave defect : it is apt to be dull . Swift's prose is like a French canal , bordered ...
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... prose which is described as the purple patch ; it would not have been necessary to do so unless it were characteristic . English prose is elaborate rather than simple . It was not always so . Nothing could be more racy , straightforward ...
... prose which is described as the purple patch ; it would not have been necessary to do so unless it were characteristic . English prose is elaborate rather than simple . It was not always so . Nothing could be more racy , straightforward ...
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... prose writers of the baroque period , the authors of King James's Bible , Sir Thomas Browne , Glanville , were poets who had lost their way . Prose is a rococo art . It needs taste rather than power , decorum rather than inspiration and ...
... prose writers of the baroque period , the authors of King James's Bible , Sir Thomas Browne , Glanville , were poets who had lost their way . Prose is a rococo art . It needs taste rather than power , decorum rather than inspiration and ...
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