The Rise of Modern Prose Style

abstract Advancement ancient Anglican Anti Anti-Ciceronian aphorisms aphoristic Aristotle Attic Bacon Baconian Bernard André brevity character Cicero Ciceronian classical plain style comedy critics Croll Crusoe Daniel Defoe death Defoe discourse Dryden Eachard effect Elizabethan eloquence epistle essays example expression figures genus humile Glanvill Glanvill's History Hobbes ideal ideas imitation impersonal influence Jonson Joseph Glanvill kind knowledge language Latin Learning libertine linguistic literary London matter means metaphor method mimesis mind mode modern Montaigne moral Nashe natural philosophy notions orator oratory passage passions practice praise preaching prose style Puritan qualities Quintilian R. F. Jones reader reason relation Religion Renaissance Restoration comedy Restoration prose rhetorical Robinson Crusoe Royal Society scientific scientists self-revelation Seneca sense sentence sermon seventeenth century soul speaking speech Sprat Stoics stylistic syntax Tacitus theory things thought Tiberius tion tradition truth utilitarian utility Vanity Wilkins Williamson words writing