When we put aside one or two exceptionally fine pieces, like the hymn of the soul in the apocryphal Acts of Thomas, the highest degree of excellence in style is perhaps attained in staightforward historical narrative - such as the account of the PersoRoman War at the beginning of the 6th century by the author who passes under the name of Joshua the Stylite, or by romancers like him who wrote the romance of Julian; by biographers like some of those who have written lives of saints, martyrs and eminent divines; and by some early writers of homilies such as Philoxenus (in prose) and Isaac of Antioch (in verse). [Please select]
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’ But Zola did not want, like the old romancers, to tell a story. [Please select]
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The number of King Arthur's Knights varies from twelve to several hundred, according to the different poets or romancers. [Please select]
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This, of course, had often been done by romancers before Mr. [Please select]
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We have plenty of poets and romancers; we could manufacture suitable associations and fit them to the premises. [Please select]
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"Hogan," said Joshua, "I think you're one of the fust romancers of the age."' [Please select]
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One of our natural history romancers makes the crows flock in June. [Please select]
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Around them there were gathered, in a sort of salon, all the best-known writers of the day--dramatists, critics, poets, and romancers. [Please select]
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So romancers had better let imagination paint for them that which is above all art, and leave their lovers to themselves during the happiest minutes of their lives. [Please select]
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