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But it can also choose to play on different terrain, where allusion replaces explicit declaration, a discreet and almost modest aspect replaces magniloquence, and suspension and expectation replace direct affirmation.
In Andrew Marvell, Eliot observes: Out of that high style developed from Marlowe through Johnson, the seventeenth century separated two qualities : Wit and Magniloquence .
com Unfair & Unbalanced: The Lunatic Magniloquence of Henry E.
 
 
 
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