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... Prose . In the fifteenth century prose writings begin to assume some importance . Poetry always precedes prose in the literary efforts of a nation . It is more easily remembered , an important point when writing is a difficult art and ...
... Prose . In the fifteenth century prose writings begin to assume some importance . Poetry always precedes prose in the literary efforts of a nation . It is more easily remembered , an important point when writing is a difficult art and ...
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... prose style . Our earliest great prose - writers- Hooker , Bacon , Milton - were masters in their art , but their excellencies were individual ; they provided no model on which the average writer could form himself . Dryden now gave men ...
... prose style . Our earliest great prose - writers- Hooker , Bacon , Milton - were masters in their art , but their excellencies were individual ; they provided no model on which the average writer could form himself . Dryden now gave men ...
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... prose - writer , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , much remembered for her famous friend- ship and subsequent quarrel with Pope . Her husband was Ambassador at the Porte , and she described her life in the East in a series of delightful ...
... prose - writer , Lady Mary Wortley Montagu , much remembered for her famous friend- ship and subsequent quarrel with Pope . Her husband was Ambassador at the Porte , and she described her life in the East in a series of delightful ...
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