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... style has always been admitted . When one of Thackeray's first novels appeared , a critic asked : " Where did you get that style ? " Herodotus , if asked this question , might reply that his style did not come from Hecataeus . The ...
... style has always been admitted . When one of Thackeray's first novels appeared , a critic asked : " Where did you get that style ? " Herodotus , if asked this question , might reply that his style did not come from Hecataeus . The ...
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... style . But any writer who rises above tediousness will sometimes employ the periodic style . Herodotus's style has a remarkable uniformity ; an immense amount of careful polish must have gone into it . It is uniform but not monotonous ...
... style . But any writer who rises above tediousness will sometimes employ the periodic style . Herodotus's style has a remarkable uniformity ; an immense amount of careful polish must have gone into it . It is uniform but not monotonous ...
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... style is found in the fact that Thucydides was absent from Athens during the formative period of the best Greek prose style . Gorgias , who profoundly in- fluenced Thucydides and other writers , was in Athens in 427. Thucydides was ...
... style is found in the fact that Thucydides was absent from Athens during the formative period of the best Greek prose style . Gorgias , who profoundly in- fluenced Thucydides and other writers , was in Athens in 427. Thucydides was ...
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