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... style differs very much from that of the immortal poet . His plays do not so much represent human nature generally , as the parti- cular aspect that mankind presented in Jonson's own time . Hence for modern readers , they have lost very ...
... style and manner of Lord Boling- broke , and refuted the infidel opinions of that writer by carrying them out to their extreme results . So skilful is the imitation of Bolingbroke's style , that when the pam- phlet first appeared ...
... style of composition . The style of an author , " says he , " should be the image of his mind , but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise . Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer13281400 | 9 |
Sir Thomas More14801534 | 17 |
Edmund Spenser15521599 | 25 |
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