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So far as I know ours is the only language in which it has been found necessary to give a name to the piece of prose which is described as the purple patch ; it would not have been necessary to do so unless it were characteristic .
So far as I know ours is the only language in which it has been found necessary to give a name to the piece of prose which is described as the purple patch ; it would not have been necessary to do so unless it were characteristic .
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No critic has praised Dryden's prose more aptly . He said of him that he appeared to have no art other than that of expressing with clearness what he thought with vigour . And one of his Lives he finished with the words : ' Whoever ...
No critic has praised Dryden's prose more aptly . He said of him that he appeared to have no art other than that of expressing with clearness what he thought with vigour . And one of his Lives he finished with the words : ' Whoever ...
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dent that the best prose was written when rococo , with its elegance and moderation , at its birth attained its greatest excellence . For rococo was evolved when baroque had become declamatory and the world , tired of the stupendous ...
dent that the best prose was written when rococo , with its elegance and moderation , at its birth attained its greatest excellence . For rococo was evolved when baroque had become declamatory and the world , tired of the stupendous ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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