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... Learning ( 1605 ) the Ciceronian style is seen as a reaction by the church reformers and the Renaissance humanists to scholasticism ; but the Ciceronian style , based on Latin , became excessively eloquent : men began to hunt more after ...
... Learning ( 1605 ) the Ciceronian style is seen as a reaction by the church reformers and the Renaissance humanists to scholasticism ; but the Ciceronian style , based on Latin , became excessively eloquent : men began to hunt more after ...
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... learning ' the numbers of thy native Tongue ' or what Dryden politely , ironically termed ' the dull sweets of Rime ' . The influence of imitations and translations on the increasing elegance of Restoration verse can be seen from such ...
... learning ' the numbers of thy native Tongue ' or what Dryden politely , ironically termed ' the dull sweets of Rime ' . The influence of imitations and translations on the increasing elegance of Restoration verse can be seen from such ...
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... learning . Temple , who was even sceptical of the Copernican theory of the universe , replied in An Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning ( 1690 ) that as human nature and endowments are the same in all ages the arts do not ...
... learning . Temple , who was even sceptical of the Copernican theory of the universe , replied in An Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning ( 1690 ) that as human nature and endowments are the same in all ages the arts do not ...
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