Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concl… - Arthur Quinn
The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton. Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concl…
- Arthur Quinn
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech. - Arthur Quinn
Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process. - Arthur Quinn
Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
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