A guide to English literature. 3. From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Penguin Books, 1956 |
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Page 70
... Prose - The prose of the earlier seventeenth century is even more varied than its verse , and the lines are harder to distinguish . This is partly because of the more varied functions that prose has to serve - prac- tical , informative ...
... Prose - The prose of the earlier seventeenth century is even more varied than its verse , and the lines are harder to distinguish . This is partly because of the more varied functions that prose has to serve - prac- tical , informative ...
Page 128
... prose . His imagery , for example , was subordinated to a purely intellectual purpose ; he deployed his various figures of speech , as we can see in The Advance- ment of Learning , not in order to express the whole range of his feelings ...
... prose . His imagery , for example , was subordinated to a purely intellectual purpose ; he deployed his various figures of speech , as we can see in The Advance- ment of Learning , not in order to express the whole range of his feelings ...
Page 129
... prose begins to make itself felt , between , at the two extremes , the Baconian prose of inductive reasoning and the whimsical over- literary prose of Sir Thomas Browne ( and in this connexion it is interesting to note Browne's ...
... prose begins to make itself felt , between , at the two extremes , the Baconian prose of inductive reasoning and the whimsical over- literary prose of Sir Thomas Browne ( and in this connexion it is interesting to note Browne's ...
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