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Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the ... - Página 38
por Everett Zimmerman - 2007 - 268 páginas
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English Prose: Selections, Volumen3

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 páginas
...delivered so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking ; positive...bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can ; and preferring the language of artizans, countrymen, and merchants, before that of wits...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volumen3

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 páginas
...delivered so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking ; positive...bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can ; and preferring the language of artizans, countrymen, and merchants, before that of wits...
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The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch of Its History from the Earliest ...

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 322 páginas
...is needed. The Royal Society, therefore, " have exacted from all their members" (Dryden was one) " a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive...bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can; and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or...
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The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A History

Park Benjamin - 1895 - 650 páginas
...time of Adam, introductory to a physical fact observed yesterday. It "exacted from all its members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive...bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen and merchants before that of wits or...
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A Short History of English Literature

George Saintsbury - 1898 - 952 páginas
...the amplifications and digressions of style." They have, he says, exacted from all their members " a close, naked, natural way of speaking — positive...bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or...
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A Short History of English Literature

George Saintsbury - 1898 - 858 páginas
...the amplifications and digressions of style." They have, he says, exacted from all their members " a close, naked, natural way of speaking — positive...bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can, and preferring the language of artisans, countrymen, and merchants before that of wits or...
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Periods of European Literature, Volumen8

1899 - 452 páginas
...scientific ideal is prominent. Sprat explains how the Eoyal Society " have exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking ; positive...bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can " ; and this in correction of all kinds of vicious aberration and voluble obscurity. The right...
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English Literature: From Milton to Johnson, by Edmund Goose

Richard Garnett - 1903 - 512 páginas
...According to the official definition of the infant Royal Society, they " exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive...bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can," and passed "a resolution to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of...
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From Milton to Johnson

Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 páginas
...According to the official definition of the infant Royal Society, they " exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive...bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can," and passed "a resolution to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of...
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Modern English Literature: A Short History

Edmund Gosse - 1907 - 440 páginas
...According to the official definition of the infant Royal Society, they " exacted from all their members a close, naked, natural way of speaking, positive...bringing all things as near the mathematical plainness as they can," and passed " a resolution to reject all the amplifications,digressions, and swellings of...
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