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kausar
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What are the salient features of Bacon's prose style?

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Posted by kausar on Wednesday March 4, 2009 at 4:05 AM and tagged with francis bacon, sir francis bacon.

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    Francis Bacon was one of the early masters of English prose. He used to write a terse, epigrammatic, utilitarian prose, a prose well-structured and prescriptive, logical and illustrative. Climactic, often maxim-like, sentences woven into the strong and sound fabric of his prose. Bacon's prose was permeated with practical wisdom, and he addressed his readers in an oracular voice. Many of his observations have become proverbial expressions in the English language.

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    Posted by kc4u on Wednesday June 24, 2009 at 3:51 AM