Al – Saj’a, the fine style or style fleuri, also termed Al – Badí‘a, or euphuism, is the basis of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
| possibility that "euphuism" should have been used, rather |. From Wordnik.com. [Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare] Reference
(1600-1700) in which it flourished, and that bore in England the name of "euphuism". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
The meddling with Iran -- meddling is actually a euphuism. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2007] Reference
Its name is quaint, for so was its discoverer, Luke Fox, a worthy man, addicted much to euphuism. From Wordnik.com. [The North-West Passage] Reference
It is euphuism of the purest water, with all the merits and all the drawbacks of the euphuistic manner. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
Zutphen the purification of England from euphuism. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
The euphuism of the foregoing quotation will be readily detected. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
Berners 'euphuism, whatever its origin, was premature; and, though the. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
Equally unsatisfactory is the theory that euphuism was of purely Spanish origin. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
Hitherto we have contented ourselves with indicating the rhetorical aspect of euphuism. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
This brief survey of the framework of euphuism is far from being an exhaustive analysis. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
Other marks of euphuism, such as the fantastic embroidery of mythical beasts and flowers, are absent. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
Here we have the two elements of our native-grown euphuism, and their origins, carefully distinguished. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
The idea that euphuism was originally an article of foreign production was first set on foot by Dr Landmann. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
He calls things by their right names; no euphuism or transcendentalism, -- the plainer and commoner the better. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
But, deferring this point for a later treatment, let us conclude our study of the evolution of euphuism in England. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
On the other hand, it is possible to trace a feeling towards euphuism among writers who were quite outside this group. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
Indeed, until fifty years ago, Lyly spelt nothing but euphuism, and euphuism meant simply nonsense, clothed in bombast. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
We shall then be in a position to proceed to the more interesting, and as yet unsettled problem, of the origins of euphuism. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
Raleigh's usual style differs very little from that of other men of his day, who kept clear at once of euphuism and burlesque. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
In the first place it appears that the part played by Berners in the history of euphuism has been considerably under-estimated. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
In Italy, in France, and in Spain, therefore, we may find parallels to euphuism without supposing any international borrowings. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
I make a special mention of this point, as we shall find it has a certain connexion with the subject of the origins of euphuism. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
Of course with euphuism we do not commence English prose; that is already centuries old; but we are dealing with the beginnings of. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
This writer again brings us in touch with that Oxford atmosphere, which, I maintain, surrounded the birth of the full-blown euphuism. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
Guevara, and that his style was actually derived from Spanish sources, without surrendering our thesis that euphuism was a natural growth. From Wordnik.com. [John Lyly] Reference
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