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A cold comming they had of it, at this time of the yeare: just the worst time of the yeare, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deepe, the weather sharp, the daies short, the sunn farthest off…the very dead of winter. - Lancelot Andrewes

“…A great sentence is like a great athletic performance. It is an example of something done supremely well, so well that it cannot be bettered. Other similar feats will come along, but only to stand alongside it. What exactly is done in such a performance? - The balance, the alliterations, the variation, the melody, the lights glimmering in the words…” Simon Blackburn on How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Stanley Fish in the New Republic.

A cold comming they had of it, at this time of the yeare: just the worst time of the yeare, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deepe, the weather sharp, the daies short, the sunn farthest off…the very dead of winter. - Lancelot Andrewes

“…A great sentence is like a great athletic performance. It is an example of something done supremely well, so well that it cannot be bettered. Other similar feats will come along, but only to stand alongside it. What exactly is done in such a performance? - The balance, the alliterations, the variation, the melody, the lights glimmering in the words…” Simon Blackburn on How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One by Stanley Fish in the New Republic.