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... style . " Assuredly it kept the Bedford tinker from being vulgar , and hardly less Daniel Defoe . The Bible profoundly influenced Ruskin's style ; “ it is ingrained , " says his biographer , " in the texture of almost every piece from ...
... style . " Assuredly it kept the Bedford tinker from being vulgar , and hardly less Daniel Defoe . The Bible profoundly influenced Ruskin's style ; “ it is ingrained , " says his biographer , " in the texture of almost every piece from ...
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... style are sometimes visible . Augustine Birrell has compared the march of Johnson's sentences to the measured tread of a well - drilled company of soldiers . His style is well suited to the expression of large verdicts and sombre ...
... style are sometimes visible . Augustine Birrell has compared the march of Johnson's sentences to the measured tread of a well - drilled company of soldiers . His style is well suited to the expression of large verdicts and sombre ...
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... style be found to be the same in all his novels . It is an ordered , deliberate , unhurrying style which reaches its effect as by tessellation . It can empurple itself , but it never runs to the purple patch , as , also , it never , or ...
... style be found to be the same in all his novels . It is an ordered , deliberate , unhurrying style which reaches its effect as by tessellation . It can empurple itself , but it never runs to the purple patch , as , also , it never , or ...
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