On the Art of Reading · Character
Sir Thomas Browne
The seventeenth-century physician and prose stylist whose Religio Medici preface turns the misery of pirated printing into a small masterpiece of complaint.
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Also known as Browne
First appearance: on the art of reading
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Mentioned as a scholar who practices the rolling Latin sentence but relies on Bible rhythms.
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Browne enters the lectures through his own excuse for publishing: a world where his Majesty is defamed, Parliament depraved, and his private meditations corrupted by transcription until he must set a full and intended…
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