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 1      I, 5 |      commemoration, in verse or prose; privileges; grants of land;
 2    III, 1 |      the language of oratorical prose at first took a poetical
 3    III, 1 |       not true: the language of prose is distinct from that of
 4    III, 2 |        it is not appropriate to prose. Clearness is secured by
 5    III, 2 |   remote from ordinary life. In prose passages they are far less
 6    III, 2 |      excess. In the language of prose, besides the regular and
 7    III, 2 |   definition of good oratorical prose. Words of ambiguous meaning
 8    III, 2 |     value both in poetry and in prose. Prose-writers must, however,
 9    III, 3 |        talk of "white milk", in prose such epithets are sometimes
10    III, 3 |   reveal the author turning his prose into poetry. Of course we
11    III, 3 |       if this is much done, the prose character disappears entirely.
12    III, 4 |           Similes are useful in prose as well as in verse; but
13    III, 4 |      verses when broken up into prose. Pericles compared the Samians
14    III, 8 |                 8~The form of a prose composition should be neither
15    III, 8 |   metres are definite sections. Prose, then, is to be rhythmical,
16    III, 8 | metrical, or it will become not prose but verse. It should not
17    III, 8 |         even have too precise a prose rhythm, and therefore should
18    III, 8 |     must be rejected in writing prose, partly for the reasons
19    III, 9 |               9~The language of prose must be either free-running,
20    III, 9 |     more easily remembered than prose, which is not: the measures
21    III, 11|     this in verse as well as in prose. The word which comes is
22    III, 12|     style. The style of written prose is not that of spoken oratory,