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... prose something of the formal pattern of verse , but , a better poet than Lyly , he was able to do some- thing else , to give his prose , on occasion at any rate , the beauty of poetry . It is for these incidental felicities that we ...
... prose something of the formal pattern of verse , but , a better poet than Lyly , he was able to do some- thing else , to give his prose , on occasion at any rate , the beauty of poetry . It is for these incidental felicities that we ...
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... prose . Understand- ably , for as a writer of imaginative prose he was unequaled in his age by any except Shakespeare , Jonson , and Web- ster . And his prose is still a living thing ; in our own time it has influenced both James Joyce ...
... prose . Understand- ably , for as a writer of imaginative prose he was unequaled in his age by any except Shakespeare , Jonson , and Web- ster . And his prose is still a living thing ; in our own time it has influenced both James Joyce ...
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... prose . It was during this period that the English began to acquire the habit of reading , in the absence of which the writing of novels is scarcely conceivable . The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature lists one hundred and ...
... prose . It was during this period that the English began to acquire the habit of reading , in the absence of which the writing of novels is scarcely conceivable . The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature lists one hundred and ...
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