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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Note 645 — SHAKSPEARE;[525] OR, THE POET

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Euphuism. The word here has rather the force of euphemism, an entirely different word. Euphuism was an affected ornate style of expression, so called from Euphues, by John Lyly, a sixteenth century master of that style.

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