Rosalynde" marks the end of the unquestioned supremacy of euphuism as a literary mode.
When Lodge wrote "Rosalynde," euphuism was already on the wane.
Euphuism must, therefore, have had a considerable vogue even in the days of Henry VIII.
Before, however, proceeding to fix the position of euphuism in the development of English prose, let us sum up the results we have obtained from our examination of its relation to the general European Renaissance.
In this way, short-lived and abortive as it seemed, euphuismanticipated the literature of the ancien régime.
This brief survey of the framework of euphuism is far from being an exhaustive analysis.
The position of Euphuism in the history of English prose.
The euphuismof the foregoing quotation will be readily detected.
It means that Berners was writing euphuismin 1524, five years before Guevara published his book in Spain.
Euphuism was too antagonistic to the general current of English prose to be successful.
That lady was considered most proficient in euphuism who could keep up longest these chains of similes taken out of fabulous natural history.
Critics have not failed to insist, on the other hand, that a species of Euphuism existed before Euphues was thought of.
Scott betrays his own error when he says that "the extravagance of Euphuism .
This severe censure ofEuphuism may serve to remind us that hasty critics have committed an error in supposing the Arcadia.
Euphuism did not attempt to render the simplicity of nature.
Lyly adopted this word as the name of the hero of his romance, and it is with him that the vogue of Euphuism began.
But Raleigh's usual style differs very little from that of other men of his day, who kept clear at once of euphuism and burlesque.
Then Greene returned to euphuism in Menaphon, and in Euphues, his Censure to Philautus; nor are Perimedes the Blacksmith and Tully's Love much out of the same line.
The origins of Euphuismand of that later form of preciousness which is sometimes called Gongorism and sometimes Marinism have been much discussed, but the last word has certainly not been said on them.
We have often wondered whether those who talk so glibly of Euphuism and Marinism in literature have ever read either Euphues or the Adone.
We should hesitate to say that such writing was truly poetical; so that some euphuism would seem to be necessary as well as metre, to the formal essence of poetry.
The quality of the blank verse in this play and the absence of marked Euphuism favour a date of composition in or near 1590.
Nor is it probable that the passing of the popular enthusiasm for Euphuism is wholly responsible for this.
And obtained no mercy at thy hand, I dare be sworn," said the knight, who deigned not to speak Euphuism excepting to the fair sex.
A little specimen of the conversation may not be out of place, were it but to show young ladies what fine things they have lost by living when Euphuism is out of fashion.
As for Sir Piercie, he was in his element; and, well assured of the interest and full approbation of his auditor, he went on spouting Euphuism of more than usual obscurity, and at more than usual length.
Added to the List~, a euphuism current among sporting writers implying that a horse has been gelded.
Strictly speaking, it is not against Euphuism itself that Shakespeare's youthful satire is directed in Love's Labour's Lost.
Not till a later date did Shakespeare ridicule Euphuismproperly so called--to wit, in that well-known passage in Henry IV.
The academic Euphuism has been laid aside; images and trains of thought are taken from life and experience instead of from books.
The very marked Euphuismof the prose portions, combined with some lyrical merit, makes the composition worth notice, and has led to its ascription to the pen of Lyly himself.
To this brilliant study, and in particular to the treatment of Euphuism and Arcadianism, I am deeply indebted.
Euphuism owes to him its name and its diffusion in England; but not, although it is usually so stated, its birth.
That fragile, transient fashions of expression have their own evanescent type of beauty no one who knows the history of Euphuism will deny.
Euphuism never did the harm to comedy which tragedy suffered at the hands of the late Elizabethans who, in their pursuit of moving incident, lost themselves in a reckless licence of language and verse.
Euphuism also is more pronounced than in his other plays: Venus recites the prologues to the acts.
Euphuism asserts itself occasionally in the verse, and the affectation of scholarship, customary in that day, is responsible for a superabundance of classical allusions in unexpected places.
Lyly's work was just the application of the laws of euphuism to native comedy, and it wrought a change curiously similar to the effect of Senecan principles upon native tragedy, transferring the importance from the action to the words.
As a consequence of the meaner nature of its characters this play is less tainted with euphuism than the rest, while its dialogue is as lively as ever, the four servants finding in their masters excellent foils to practise their wit upon.
All the ladies of the time, we are told, were Lilly’s scholars; “she who spoke not Euphuism being as little regarded at court as if she could not speak French.
What the "fortuitous coincidence" was he does not explain; but the term was a felicitous euphuism to cover up what in the blunter political language of our time is called "log-rolling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "euphuism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
