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... prose , which two years later was put back into English , probably by the same " Gen- tleman of Oxford . " 3 The ... Prose , with notes from the French of Raymond de St. Maur , " by a Gentleman of Oxford , " 1745. At least two prose ...
... prose , which two years later was put back into English , probably by the same " Gen- tleman of Oxford . " 3 The ... Prose , with notes from the French of Raymond de St. Maur , " by a Gentleman of Oxford , " 1745. At least two prose ...
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... prose of Johnson , Burke , and Gibbon . Still another force that made strongly for unnaturalness of diction was the constant dread of being prosaic.2 Nothing shows the un- poetic nature of the eighteenth century more clearly than this ...
... prose of Johnson , Burke , and Gibbon . Still another force that made strongly for unnaturalness of diction was the constant dread of being prosaic.2 Nothing shows the un- poetic nature of the eighteenth century more clearly than this ...
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... prose translations , which the Augustans apparently did not consider at all but which to - day are probably read more than any others . Yet , though the average reader may prefer prose , poets and men of learning as a rule do not . To ...
... prose translations , which the Augustans apparently did not consider at all but which to - day are probably read more than any others . Yet , though the average reader may prefer prose , poets and men of learning as a rule do not . To ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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