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Page 96
... style is sober yet eloquent , marked more by verbal restraint than by extravagance ( though satirical passages may be highly coloured ) with the consistency of the terms of praise and the plainness of their presentation being the ...
... style is sober yet eloquent , marked more by verbal restraint than by extravagance ( though satirical passages may be highly coloured ) with the consistency of the terms of praise and the plainness of their presentation being the ...
Page 115
... style . These features are present in the opening lines : To what a formidable greatness grown Is this prodigious ... style poem of praise can achieve . By contrast , Dryden's " Threnodia Au- gustalis'8 ( 1685 ) demonstrates a loftier ...
... style . These features are present in the opening lines : To what a formidable greatness grown Is this prodigious ... style poem of praise can achieve . By contrast , Dryden's " Threnodia Au- gustalis'8 ( 1685 ) demonstrates a loftier ...
Page 166
... style , and concentrate upon large issues of social codes and behaviour , but none of these has the length of true epic , the scale of event or the range of characters . Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde has such scale , but the poem is ...
... style , and concentrate upon large issues of social codes and behaviour , but none of these has the length of true epic , the scale of event or the range of characters . Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde has such scale , but the poem is ...
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