He is euphuistic in his style, wise in his advice to his readers, and a great admirer of his own country. |
Greene's career began in 1583 when he completed an MA at Oxford and published Mamilia, a courtesy book for Elizabethan women, written in the euphuistic style. |
It might just as well be said that Shakespeare's lords and ladies were not euphuistic enough. |
Here the pompous antithesis is evidently meant to caricature the peculiar euphuistic sentence of court parlance. |
But his language has certainly the merit of doing more justice to his subject than that of his euphuistic predecessors. |
Men of letters admired the euphuistic phrases and despised their author. |