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In truth, while Ros’s pathos-filled classic now reads as unintentionally comic, its euphuistic style isn’t that much different from the circumlocutions found in late Henry James.

This has made art pre-Raphaelite, and poetry euphuistic.

He was buried among his ancestors in the church of San Pedro M�rtir, in Toledo, "where every stone in the city is his monument," wrote the euphuistic G�ngora.

The euphuistic and sentimental Richard gives a fair field for the stylist, but his example is infectious, and the Queen, Gaunt, York, Bolingbroke, the gardener, and in fact all the persons of the drama, employ word-play, periphrasis, and the various flourishes of Elizabethan rhetorical style.

He could no more disguise his style of writing than Sir Piercie Shafton could lay aside his Euphuistic English.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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