A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleBlackwood, 1886 - 552 sider |
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Side 25
... tender feel- ings is not easily offended by the iteration of pathetic images ; the sense of the ludicrous and of humour is in many cases entirely wanting ; and the strength of humane and moral sentiment QUALITIES OF STYLE . 25.
... tender feel- ings is not easily offended by the iteration of pathetic images ; the sense of the ludicrous and of humour is in many cases entirely wanting ; and the strength of humane and moral sentiment QUALITIES OF STYLE . 25.
Side 26
... moral sentiment may be such as to recoil from inflicting ludicrous degradation . A mind bent on the pursuit of truth views with distaste the exaggerations of the poetic art . Each person is by education attached more to one school or ...
... moral sentiment may be such as to recoil from inflicting ludicrous degradation . A mind bent on the pursuit of truth views with distaste the exaggerations of the poetic art . Each person is by education attached more to one school or ...
Side 43
... moral sensibilities , and put him into such a condition of mind that he was ready to laugh at anything , no matter how venerable . It is sometimes said that opium had a similar effect upon De Quincey . But , as he would have delighted ...
... moral sensibilities , and put him into such a condition of mind that he was ready to laugh at anything , no matter how venerable . It is sometimes said that opium had a similar effect upon De Quincey . But , as he would have delighted ...
Side 55
... moral echoes , so solemn and pathetic , that lingered in the ear from her stately tragedies , all spoke with the ... morals , or sometimes - which even more thrillingly spoke to human sensibilities - of guilt too awful to be expiated ...
... moral echoes , so solemn and pathetic , that lingered in the ear from her stately tragedies , all spoke with the ... morals , or sometimes - which even more thrillingly spoke to human sensibilities - of guilt too awful to be expiated ...
Side 91
... morality of Greek writings proceeds as follows : - " The immoral English writers of the seventeenth century are indeed much less excusable than those of Greece and Rome . But the worst English writings of the seventeenth century are ...
... morality of Greek writings proceeds as follows : - " The immoral English writers of the seventeenth century are indeed much less excusable than those of Greece and Rome . But the worst English writings of the seventeenth century are ...
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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