A Guide to English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, 1964 |
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Page 62
... epigram- matic terseness of Seneca or Tacitus . It was felt , as Sir William Corn- wallis put it in his essays of 1601 , that ' reason wrapped in a few words hath the best tang ' . As in verse , there was no simple succession ... of one ...
... epigram- matic terseness of Seneca or Tacitus . It was felt , as Sir William Corn- wallis put it in his essays of 1601 , that ' reason wrapped in a few words hath the best tang ' . As in verse , there was no simple succession ... of one ...
Page 63
... epigram and pointed wit . The ' character ' was a brief descrip- tion , often didactic or satirical , of a human type ; its classical model was the series by the Greek Theophrastus , and the vogue may have owed something to the Latin ...
... epigram and pointed wit . The ' character ' was a brief descrip- tion , often didactic or satirical , of a human type ; its classical model was the series by the Greek Theophrastus , and the vogue may have owed something to the Latin ...
Page 128
... epigrams and a collection called The Forest . In some of the epigrams there would appear to be some justification for adverse comment . When Jonson is not at his best , his poems are too elaborate , lacking in spontaneity and ...
... epigrams and a collection called The Forest . In some of the epigrams there would appear to be some justification for adverse comment . When Jonson is not at his best , his poems are too elaborate , lacking in spontaneity and ...
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