The Movement of English ProseLongmans, 1966 - 182 páginas |
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... Anglo - Saxon wills are of particular importance for a study of early prose . They are perhaps the closest we can come to the actual spoken English of the period . The Anglo - Saxon will was not a ' legal ' document in the modern sense ...
... Anglo - Saxon wills are of particular importance for a study of early prose . They are perhaps the closest we can come to the actual spoken English of the period . The Anglo - Saxon will was not a ' legal ' document in the modern sense ...
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... Anglo - Saxon prose of instruction . The surviving writings of Aelfric indicate that the use of such a style was the result not of ineptitude but of deliberate choice . Aelfric could write with a considerable degree of complexity ...
... Anglo - Saxon prose of instruction . The surviving writings of Aelfric indicate that the use of such a style was the result not of ineptitude but of deliberate choice . Aelfric could write with a considerable degree of complexity ...
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... Anglo - Saxon versions of a whole series of further mediaeval educational texts : Boethius's Consolations of Philosophy ; Orosius's Com- pendious History of the World ; the Soliloquies of St. Augustine ; and he had ... ANGLO - SAXON PROSE 39.
... Anglo - Saxon versions of a whole series of further mediaeval educational texts : Boethius's Consolations of Philosophy ; Orosius's Com- pendious History of the World ; the Soliloquies of St. Augustine ; and he had ... ANGLO - SAXON PROSE 39.
Términos y frases comunes
accepted Addison Aelfric Alfred's Alfredian prose Anglo-Saxon audience baroque Bible Book C. L. WRENN Cambridge Chapter chronicle Ciceronian classical clauses colloquial continuity conversation critical Donne earlier early educated EETS England English language English prose essay Euphuism fifteenth French halga homilies humanist Humanist Latinity imagery influence Jane Austen later Latin latinised learning linguistic literary London loose and free Lord main statements mediaeval medium metaphor Middle English Milton modern English movement of speech narrative native never novel Old English Old English prose Oxford parataxis passage pattern Pecock period periodic sentence phrases poetry poets preaching printed prose style Quintilian R. W. Chambers reader reading recognisable renaissance rhetoric rhythm romantic prose semantic Senecan sentence-structure sermon seventeenth century Sir Thomas sixteenth century speech-based prose stress structure syntactical syntax Tacitus texts thou tion tongue translation Tristram Shandy Tyndale verb verse vocabulary word-groups word-order words writing written prose