Still, in the Euphuistic style, tedious and grotesque as it often is, appear the first serious efforts, among English prose writers, to attain a better mode of expression.
The attentive reader will not need be told that, as in many another piece out of Hawaii's old-time legends, the path through this song is beset with euphuistic stumbling blocks.
This double-meaning gives the poet opportunity for a euphuistic word-play that was much enjoyed by the Hawaiians.
This dramatic art of words, by the way, must not be confused with Euphuistic feats.
Now, not only the eulogy of Elizabeth at the end, but the euphuistic and classical style of the play, shows that it was intended for presentation at court.
FN#75] The humour of this euphuistic Wazirial speech, purposely made somewhat pompous, is the contrast between the unhappy Minister's praises and the result of his prognostication.
In this play, as in almost all the works of Shakespeare's younger years, the reader is perpetually amazed to find the finest poetical and rhetorical passages side by side with the most intolerable euphuistic affectations.
Note the Euphuistic balance and antithesis in xxix and xlv.
Find examples of Euphuistichyperbole in iv, of alliteration in xiv.
The euphuistic garb and the mantle of the prophet Guevara sit more lightly upon our author.
So that we may conclude by saying that simple alliteration forms the basis of the euphuistic diction, just as we have seen antithesis forms the basis of the euphuistic construction.
This being the case, a description of the euphuistic style need not detain us for long.
But the euphuistic manner has a wider significance than this, for it marks the transition from poetry to prose.
And lastly, though characterization is not even attempted, yet now and again these euphuistic puppets, distinguishable only by their labels, are inspired with something that is almost life by a phrase or a chance word.
And it is therefore quite legitimate to suppose that Berners and North, separated as they were from the original, were as much creators as translators of the euphuistic style.
He denies, moreover, that Berners was any less euphuistic than North, and gives parallel extracts from their translations to prove this.
It is not improbable that the few contemporary readers of his works, especially in euphuistic England, admired the gewgaws he so plentifully scattered and rendered so brilliant by the coruscations of his wit.
He is euphuistic in his style, wise in his advice to his readers, and a great admirer of his own country.
The movement increased rapidly, but it was not to last long; in fact, it did not continue beyond ten or twelve years; after this time the monuments of the euphuistic literature were still reprinted, but no addition was made to their number.
They were careful by choosing appropriate titles for their novels to publicly connect themselves with the euphuistic cycle.
His nobles observe his changed mood, and wonder, and his confidant, Duke Egerio, vainly tries on him the effect of a new series of euphuisticexamples and similes.
Arbasto cannot cease gazing at her; he addresses to himselfeuphuistic speeches several pages long, but they do him no good.
His love pamphlets, which filled the greatest part of his literary career, connect him with the euphuistic cycle, and he is assuredly one of Lyly's legatees.
As regards the euphuistic style, the passages already quoted will suffice, but it may be remarked that the marvellous natural history is also put under requisition.
Here the pompous antithesis is evidently meant to caricature the peculiar Euphuistic sentence of court parlance.
One of the extant versions of the Foster-brothers' Story is remarkable for its patches of euphuistic rhetoric, which often appear suddenly in the course of plain, straightforward narrative.
