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But Lydgate's rhetoric was not only restricted to style; it was expanded to include the style of the poets as well as that of the prose writers, as the last stanza shows.

The following lists of prose works may prove useful for your guidance.

In the twelve sections of Timber which he devotes to rhetoric he incorporates a sound treatise on prose style, urging restraint and perspicuity as especial virtues.

As illustrating our poet's conceptions on these mysterious subjects, I append extracts from three of his prose writings.

His Lives of Celebrated Spaniards is regarded as one of the classics of Spanish prose literature.

The hero of the Camp of Refuge fills an ample place in the annals of his day; his achievements are also handed down in a prose romance, which presents many points of resemblance to the ballads of Robin Hood.

Prof. Brander Matthews has pointed out that "there were nine muses in Greece of old, and no one of these daughters of Apollo was expected to inspire the writer of prose-fiction.

Every cleric is familiar with the prose translations which aided his boyhood's labours in rendering the poetry of Horace and Euripides into modern speech.

Praise of this book is so pleasant to read that I quote his second letter too: One of her tales is, with the sole exception of the Bride of Lammermoor, the most beautiful tale in prose composition in any language, ancient or modern.

Both the guiding motive of his prose-poem (it is his as truly as King Lear is Shakespeare's), and the furore of welcome which greeted it, may be understood by recalling the position of the sentimental school on the eve of its appearance.

And now she surprised her most intimate friend by the present of a prose story, sent to her, when absent, in chapters by the post.

" Urn Burial, which is Browne's masterpiece, shows his power as a prose poet of the "inevitable hour": "There is no antidote against the opium of time...

The Teseide in Chaucer's hands, retaining its poetic medium, is converted into the Knight's Tale; while the Reeve's Tale, the Franklin's, and the Shipman's, each borrowed from the prose version of the Decameron, are given by him a poetic setting.

When we have given some attention to dissecting his style, we may indeed discover that a prose model for to-day should have more variety and energy and occasionally more precision; but such a conclusion does not mean that any writer of this century would like the task of surpassing the De Coverley Papers.

The exquisite prose tales which have been handed down to us belong to the age of their decadence as a nation; in their great period their tellers of brief tales unconsciously cast their rendering in the poetic mould.

I., 83-100, in Oxford Treasury, I., 60-81, and a prose selection in Century, 1000-1022.

He is also the author of dainty lyrics, and forcible prose criticism.

Prose preferences.

I cried, hoarse with rage" Too palpably our hero had been overwhelmed by his passion for fictitious prose narrative.

Epicoene, or the Silent Woman, is a prose comedy exceedingly well constructed, full of life, abounding in fun and unexpected situations.

KNICKERBOCKER, ANNIE L. Modern Spanish prose readings, 1830-1930.

[Footnote 7: A late amiable man of wit, Mr. Stewart Rose, has given a prose abstract of Berni's Orlando Innamorato, with occasional versification; but it is hardly more than a dry outline, and was, indeed, intended only as an introduction to his version of the Furioso.

A prose-tract by 'C.T.,' published in 1605, is entitled 'Laugh and Lie Down: or the World's Folly.'

To the poems themselves he adds a prose paraphrase, and prints upon the same page with each composition the version published by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1623.

At times, as it portrays Danton, Robespierre, and the great characters of the tragedy, Carlyle's work is suggestive of an historical play of Shakespeare; and again, as it describes the rush and riot of men led by elemental passion, it is more like a great prose epic.

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