The Movement of English ProseLongmans, 1966 - 182 páginas |
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... medium ; in 1362 English was made the language of pleading in the courts of law . This fourteenth - century change from French to English is underlined ( and pin- pointed in date ) in Trevisa's translation of Higden's ' world - history ...
... medium ; in 1362 English was made the language of pleading in the courts of law . This fourteenth - century change from French to English is underlined ( and pin- pointed in date ) in Trevisa's translation of Higden's ' world - history ...
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... medium , then the century of Areopagitica and Leviathan has an equal claim to the title . If prose here means ( as indeed it inevitably does ) the medium of which Addison and Swift are the great exemplars , the concept of a uniform ...
... medium , then the century of Areopagitica and Leviathan has an equal claim to the title . If prose here means ( as indeed it inevitably does ) the medium of which Addison and Swift are the great exemplars , the concept of a uniform ...
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... medium capable of great and generally resonant writing . In this second hundred years the resonance was silenced , to be replaced by clarity , polite familiarity , ease of comprehension . This latter ' century ' sees the beginnings of ...
... medium capable of great and generally resonant writing . In this second hundred years the resonance was silenced , to be replaced by clarity , polite familiarity , ease of comprehension . This latter ' century ' sees the beginnings of ...
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