The Movement of English ProseLongmans, 1966 - 182 páginas |
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Página 14
... effectiveness and even of meaning , the im- portance of the Germanic elements is absolute . This ' absolute ' importance ... effective way of speaking or writing : ' What ! ' quoth the Protector . ' thou servest me , I ween , with “ ifs ...
... effectiveness and even of meaning , the im- portance of the Germanic elements is absolute . This ' absolute ' importance ... effective way of speaking or writing : ' What ! ' quoth the Protector . ' thou servest me , I ween , with “ ifs ...
Página 55
... effective than that of his secular contemporaries , and with his fellow mystics he is in the central tradition of English prose - writing . Wycliffe and his followers form a special group . Their unorthodox Lollard views were suppressed ...
... effective than that of his secular contemporaries , and with his fellow mystics he is in the central tradition of English prose - writing . Wycliffe and his followers form a special group . Their unorthodox Lollard views were suppressed ...
Página 108
... effective amalgam of humanist structural complexity and native effectiveness , the latinised polysyllables skilfully counterpointed against the blunt Anglo - Saxon , with a poet's feeling for imagery , Biblical and other , never far ...
... effective amalgam of humanist structural complexity and native effectiveness , the latinised polysyllables skilfully counterpointed against the blunt Anglo - Saxon , with a poet's feeling for imagery , Biblical and other , never far ...
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