A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleBlackwood, 1886 - 552 sider |
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... England ' attempts to combine the three modes - but these distinctions point to three different functions of History . The historian may simply record public transactions without attempting to explain them or draw lessons from them ...
... England ' attempts to combine the three modes - but these distinctions point to three different functions of History . The historian may simply record public transactions without attempting to explain them or draw lessons from them ...
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... England . 1 " In general , " says our author , " a man has reason to think himself well off in the great lottery of this life if he draws the prize of a healthy stomach with- out a mind , or the prize of a fine intellect with a crazy ...
... England . 1 " In general , " says our author , " a man has reason to think himself well off in the great lottery of this life if he draws the prize of a healthy stomach with- out a mind , or the prize of a fine intellect with a crazy ...
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... England the utterances of eminent public men on subjects beyond their province and their acquire- ments are received with a deference not accorded to men " speaking under the known privilege of professional knowledge . " Should these ...
... England the utterances of eminent public men on subjects beyond their province and their acquire- ments are received with a deference not accorded to men " speaking under the known privilege of professional knowledge . " Should these ...
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... England ; the great deserts of Asia and America ; the vast capitals of Europe - London , with its eternal agitations , the ceaseless ebb and flow of its ' mighty heart ' ; Paris , shaken by the fierce torments of rev- olutionary ...
... England ; the great deserts of Asia and America ; the vast capitals of Europe - London , with its eternal agitations , the ceaseless ebb and flow of its ' mighty heart ' ; Paris , shaken by the fierce torments of rev- olutionary ...
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... England in 1799 , became a principal supporter of the Society for the Aboli- tion of Slavery . A dry taciturn man , writing a plain terse style , he bore little outward resemblance to his distinguished son ; but he had the same untiring ...
... England in 1799 , became a principal supporter of the Society for the Aboli- tion of Slavery . A dry taciturn man , writing a plain terse style , he bore little outward resemblance to his distinguished son ; but he had the same untiring ...
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abstruse Addison admiration antithesis appear Blackwood's Magazine called Carlyle Carlyle's character Chartism Church Church of England comparison composition criticism death described diction doctrine Edinburgh Edinburgh Review effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Essays Euphuism example exposition expression favour favourite feelings figures 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 Philosophy pleasure poet political popular prose published QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards Revolution says sense sentences similitudes simplicity speech statement sublimity Tatler things tion translation Whig words writer wrote