Literary Criticism of Seventeenth-century EnglandEdward W. Tayler |
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... styles so as to include in them those matters , like divinity and statesmanship , that were traditionally reserved to the high style . Whereas Sidney and Puttenham , the greatest critics of the six- teenth century , had directed their ...
... styles so as to include in them those matters , like divinity and statesmanship , that were traditionally reserved to the high style . Whereas Sidney and Puttenham , the greatest critics of the six- teenth century , had directed their ...
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... style , and are not without their delight sometimes . For they have the Authority of yeares , and out of their intermis- sion doe win to themselves a kind of grace like newnesse . But the eldest of the present , and [ newest ] of the ...
... style , and are not without their delight sometimes . For they have the Authority of yeares , and out of their intermis- sion doe win to themselves a kind of grace like newnesse . But the eldest of the present , and [ newest ] of the ...
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... style is that which expresseth much in little . The concise style , which expresseth not enough , but leaves somewhat to bee understood . The abrupt style , which hath many breaches , and doth not seeme to end , but fall . The congruent ...
... style is that which expresseth much in little . The concise style , which expresseth not enough , but leaves somewhat to bee understood . The abrupt style , which hath many breaches , and doth not seeme to end , but fall . The congruent ...
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