It is the glitter of the diamond itself austin o malley thoughts of a recluse 1898.
Attic style rhetoric.
Hegesias developed and exaggerated stylistic effects harking back to the sophists and the gorgianic style.
Hegesias of magnesia was asianism s first main representative and was considered its founder.
Attic would resurface again as the ideal suggesting a more ascetic brief and witty concise style.
Unlike the more austere formal and traditional attic style asiatic oratory was more bombastic emotional and coloured with wordplay.
Asiatic attic style in greek literature and art was replaced for a time by the more decorative and florid asiatic style.
Attic style in greek literature and art was replaced for a time by the more decorative and florid asiatic style.
Both styles influenced writers and speakers in rome and much later in britain.
According to cicero s discussion of decorum in de oratore see below the grand and important theme should be treated in a dignified and noble style the humble or trivial theme in a less exalted manner.
Style is the dress of thoughts lord chesterfield the style of an author should be the image of his mind but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise edward gibbon style is not the gold setting of the diamond thought.
Attic would resurface again as the ideal suggesting a more ascetic brief and witty concise style.
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