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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 it is the chassis without which your car does not exist . It is not an accident that the best prose was written when rococo , with its elegance and moderation , at its birth attained its greatest excellence . For rococo was ...
... prose it is the chassis without which your car does not exist . It is not an accident that the best prose was written when rococo , with its elegance and moderation , at its birth attained its greatest excellence . For rococo was ...
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... prose that our modern world has seen , Voltaire . The writers of English , perhaps owing to the poetic nature of the ... prose . It seems to me that in prose alliteration should be used only for a special reason ; when used by accident ...
... prose that our modern world has seen , Voltaire . The writers of English , perhaps owing to the poetic nature of the ... prose . It seems to me that in prose alliteration should be used only for a special reason ; when used by accident ...
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