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Excerpt from The Prose Style of Richard Rolle of Hampole: With Special Reference to Its Euphuistic Tendencies
Horstman 1 introduces Richard Belle of Hampole to the modern reader With unstinted enthusiasm, declaring him one of the greatest English writers and the true father of English litera ture (ii, p. XXXV). Undoubtedly in his own day and for some generations after, Richard Rolle's vogue was Wide, not only among the common people because of his good works entitling him to saintship almost recognized by the church,2 but'also on account of his writings which made him according to Horstman (ii, p. XXXV.
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