A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleW. Blackwood, 1881 - 548 sider |
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Side vi
... regards the defining of critical terms , it was a favourite position with De Quincey that " before absolute and philosophic criticism can exist , we must have a good psychology . " The present work makes little pretension to be ...
... regards the defining of critical terms , it was a favourite position with De Quincey that " before absolute and philosophic criticism can exist , we must have a good psychology . " The present work makes little pretension to be ...
Side vi
... regards the defining of critical terms , it was a favourite position with De Quincey that " before absolute and philosophic criticism can exist , we must have a good psychology . " The present work makes little pretension to be ...
... regards the defining of critical terms , it was a favourite position with De Quincey that " before absolute and philosophic criticism can exist , we must have a good psychology . " The present work makes little pretension to be ...
Side vii
... regard to the precepts of the schools . Sound principles of composition do not repress genius , but rather do genius a service by preventing it from dissipating itself in unprofitable eccentricities . There is every room for variety ...
... regard to the precepts of the schools . Sound principles of composition do not repress genius , but rather do genius a service by preventing it from dissipating itself in unprofitable eccentricities . There is every room for variety ...
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... regard for his read- ers , should see that by so doing he exacts too severe an effort of attention . It may safely be laid down that the longer a period is , the simpler should be both the language and the matter of the suspended ...
... regard for his read- ers , should see that by so doing he exacts too severe an effort of attention . It may safely be laid down that the longer a period is , the simpler should be both the language and the matter of the suspended ...
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... regards the number of figures employed , every writer must be guided by his own dis- cretion . The critic of style can only remark , that if writers were always careful to make their comparisons effective for a purpose of some kind ...
... regards the number of figures employed , every writer must be guided by his own dis- cretion . The critic of style can only remark , that if writers were always careful to make their comparisons effective for a purpose of some kind ...
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abstruse Addison admiration antithesis appearance Ben Jonson called Carlyle Carlyle's character Chartism Church Church of England clear comparison criticism death described diction doctrine Dr Johnson effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Essay Euphuism example exposition expression favour favourite feelings Figures of Speech French French Revolution give Grasmere Henry VII honour Hooker human humour intellectual interest Jeremy Taylor Johnson King labour language Latin less literary literature living London Lord Macaulay Macaulay's manner matter means ment mind moral narrative nature never objects opinion opium original Oxford paragraph particular passage pathos peculiar perhaps period periodic sentence person perspicuous pleasure poet poetry political popular probably prose published QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards says sense sentences similitudes simplicity sometimes statement sublimity Tatler things tion translation Whig Wicliffe words writers wrote
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Side 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Side 365 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Side 102 - The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Side 358 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Side 306 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand...
Side 284 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and...
Side 364 - I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels, of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance ; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these children sound useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the public as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
Side 200 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Side 221 - ... rest himself ; if the Moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures...