"Euphuism" Quotes from Famous Books
... against the formidable and deleterious results of its recrudescence that the following suggestions, are propounded, not merely in the interests of Gongorism or of an intensive cultivation of syncretic euphuism, but in accordance with the most ... — Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 • Various
... character. It is given in one of those "Brief Lives" which might well serve as models to modern biographers; lives compressed into two pages of nervous English, adorned here and there, rather than disfigured, by quaint pedantic words and phrases, relics of the euphuism of the sixteenth century. Aubrey is credulous, appallingly frank, a strong partisan, a man of great industry and learning, by no means trustworthy, but none the less entertaining and delightful. He tells us that Wilkins had his "grammar ... — The Life and Times of John Wilkins • Patrick A. Wright-Henderson
... Lyly and Euphuism. (See Extracts from Ward and from Landmann in "Selected Criticism," in First Folio ... — Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies • Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke |