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... mind the restriction of this kind of licence . By ' refinement ' he meant that educated writers after the Restoration accepted certain syntactical practices , often unconsciously , that made for intelligibility . II . Passive ...
... mind the restriction of this kind of licence . By ' refinement ' he meant that educated writers after the Restoration accepted certain syntactical practices , often unconsciously , that made for intelligibility . II . Passive ...
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... mind of the reader . Writers of an inferior class are particularly fond of crouding together epithets . Webster also ... mind , he is only pleasing the ear . . . . He describes things and events in general terms or figurative language ...
... mind of the reader . Writers of an inferior class are particularly fond of crouding together epithets . Webster also ... mind , he is only pleasing the ear . . . . He describes things and events in general terms or figurative language ...
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... mind , Lyly aiming at unity and visual shape in the structure of his sentences . Sidney , in Arcadia , first published in 1590 , but written some ten years earlier , chose diversity to dress the colourful romantic situations of his ...
... mind , Lyly aiming at unity and visual shape in the structure of his sentences . Sidney , in Arcadia , first published in 1590 , but written some ten years earlier , chose diversity to dress the colourful romantic situations of his ...
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Preface | 11 |
Introduction | 13 |
Social Strata and Levels of Communication | 21 |
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