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... prose is cut up into " verses " ( an arrangement unknown until the Genevan translators adopted it ) , but all the sweet or magnificent outbursts of poetry are printed as prose . For these reasons Professor Moulton declares roundly in ...
... prose is cut up into " verses " ( an arrangement unknown until the Genevan translators adopted it ) , but all the sweet or magnificent outbursts of poetry are printed as prose . For these reasons Professor Moulton declares roundly in ...
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... prose - writer , who is a prose - writer mainly , is Swift's superior , and a man might be hard put to it to say who among such writers in the plainer English can be pronounced his equal . " A brief discussion of his verse may fittingly ...
... prose - writer , who is a prose - writer mainly , is Swift's superior , and a man might be hard put to it to say who among such writers in the plainer English can be pronounced his equal . " A brief discussion of his verse may fittingly ...
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... prose ever written is likely to do that . But if not , like his verse , unique in splendour , Shelley's prose is of a beauty all its own . Some critics think that the best of it is in his letters , with their travel - pictures , the pen ...
... prose ever written is likely to do that . But if not , like his verse , unique in splendour , Shelley's prose is of a beauty all its own . Some critics think that the best of it is in his letters , with their travel - pictures , the pen ...
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HOMER | 18 |
THE STORY OF THE BIBLE | 41 |
THE ENGLISH BIBLE AS LITERATURE | 74 |
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