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Page 447
... style which is its æsthetic element . So far as prose is concerned Mr. Middle- ton Murry will be quite right in saying " there are styles but no style " -a logical result of his ( not very consistent ) exclamation elsewhere : " As if ...
... style which is its æsthetic element . So far as prose is concerned Mr. Middle- ton Murry will be quite right in saying " there are styles but no style " -a logical result of his ( not very consistent ) exclamation elsewhere : " As if ...
Page 449
... style . There is more style as style , though style misplaced , in affectation than in artlessness , more to make the French distinction that Arnold domesticated - in sim- plesse than in simplicité . The simplicity of Quaker costume has ...
... style . There is more style as style , though style misplaced , in affectation than in artlessness , more to make the French distinction that Arnold domesticated - in sim- plesse than in simplicité . The simplicity of Quaker costume has ...
Page 452
... style , as it were , and alight , a little dazed , in featureless simplicity . On the other hand a theme may be too simple to simplify . People speak of simplicity as if in itself it were an æsthetic value , like size . Size in- cludes ...
... style , as it were , and alight , a little dazed , in featureless simplicity . On the other hand a theme may be too simple to simplify . People speak of simplicity as if in itself it were an æsthetic value , like size . Size in- cludes ...
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NATHANIEL WARD 15781652 | 1 |
JOHN WINTHROP 15881649 | 9 |
COTTON MATHER 16631728 | 16 |
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