A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleGinn, 1895 - 552 sider |
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... honours , time - honoured , and , haply it may be , time - shat- tered power , I owe thee nothing ! Of thy vast riches I took not a shilling , though living among multitudes who owed to thee their daily bread . " In the matter of study ...
... honours , time - honoured , and , haply it may be , time - shat- tered power , I owe thee nothing ! Of thy vast riches I took not a shilling , though living among multitudes who owed to thee their daily bread . " In the matter of study ...
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... honours , never mentioned but with affected rapture , the classics of Greece and Rome are seldom read - most of them never ; are they indeed the closet - companions of any man ? Surely it is time that these follies were at an end ; that ...
... honours , never mentioned but with affected rapture , the classics of Greece and Rome are seldom read - most of them never ; are they indeed the closet - companions of any man ? Surely it is time that these follies were at an end ; that ...
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... honour to the person robbed . We may be sure , from the unique finish of his similitudes , that the stolen property would have improved in value under his hands . QUALITIES OF STYLE . Simplicity . De Quincey cannot be ranked among ...
... honour to the person robbed . We may be sure , from the unique finish of his similitudes , that the stolen property would have improved in value under his hands . QUALITIES OF STYLE . Simplicity . De Quincey cannot be ranked among ...
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... honoured , afflicted , or agitated above other people , every reader's self - conceit takes the alarm , and forthwith scans the writer with cynical antipathy . De Quincey is on his guard against mak- ing such a blunder . He does not ...
... honoured , afflicted , or agitated above other people , every reader's self - conceit takes the alarm , and forthwith scans the writer with cynical antipathy . De Quincey is on his guard against mak- ing such a blunder . He does not ...
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... honour from man . Coronets for thee ! Oh no ! Honours , if they come when all is over , are for those that share thy blood . Daughter of Domremy , when the gratitude of thy king shall awaken , thou wilt be sleep- ing the sleep of the ...
... honour from man . Coronets for thee ! Oh no ! Honours , if they come when all is over , are for those that share thy blood . Daughter of Domremy , when the gratitude of thy king shall awaken , thou wilt be sleep- ing the sleep of the ...
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abrupt abstruse admiration antithesis appear called Carlyle Carlyle's century character Chartism Church Church of England circumstances comparison contrast criticism death described diction doctrines effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Enniscorthy Essays Euphuism example exposition expression fact familiar favour favourite feelings Figures of Speech French French Revolution give Grasmere Henry VIII honour Hooker human humour intellectual interest Jeremy Taylor John Sterling King labour language Latin less literary literature living London Lord Macaulay Macaulay's manner matter means ment metonymies mind narrative nature never objects opinion opium ordinary Oxford paragraph Parliament particular passage pathos peculiar perhaps period periodic sentence perspicuous poetry political popular probably prose QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards Revolution Sartor Resartus says sense sentence similitudes simplicity statement sublimity synecdoche things tion translation Whig words writers wrote