Essays on Ancient Modern Learning and on Poetry (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Essays on Ancient Modern Learning and on Poetry Temple´s fame has waned since the days when the essays here reprinted were Pope´s favourite prose; but these still maintain their historical importance, for they represent a turning point in the development of English style, and in them something of the tone and temper of the eighteenth-century essay are already apparent. Goldsmith need not have told us that Temple´s style was ´the model by which the best prose writers in the reign of Queen Anne formed theirs´, nor Swift that Temple ´advanced our English tongue to as great perfection as it can well bear´; to read aloud a single essay is to discover for oneself this forgotten secret. Johnson suggested to Boswell at least one of the causes of this reforming power: ´Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were careless of arrangement, and did not mind whether a sentence ended with an important word or an insignificant word, or with what part of speech it was concluded.´ About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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