A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleGinn, 1895 - 552 sider |
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... object that they qualify is briefly stated in Bain's Rhetoric , under the " order of words . " The legitimate use of the periodic structure in impassioned prose is best seen in the so - called " prose fantasies " of De Quincey . II ...
... object that they qualify is briefly stated in Bain's Rhetoric , under the " order of words . " The legitimate use of the periodic structure in impassioned prose is best seen in the so - called " prose fantasies " of De Quincey . II ...
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... object by displaying its high or its low relations , care must be taken that the comparison be , in the estimation of those addressed , really higher or ( as the case may be ) lower than the object ; farther , that it be not ...
... object by displaying its high or its low relations , care must be taken that the comparison be , in the estimation of those addressed , really higher or ( as the case may be ) lower than the object ; farther , that it be not ...
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... object to the understanding , the imagination , the pas- sions , and the ear , are perspicuity , vivacity , elegance , animation , and music . " That so many writers on composition should have fallen back from this comparatively ...
... object to the understanding , the imagination , the pas- sions , and the ear , are perspicuity , vivacity , elegance , animation , and music . " That so many writers on composition should have fallen back from this comparatively ...
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... objects of special affection , displays of active goodness , humane sentiments , and gentle pleasures . " But it may stagger many as applied to the representations of pain and misery . Are these not agitating and are they not justly ...
... objects of special affection , displays of active goodness , humane sentiments , and gentle pleasures . " But it may stagger many as applied to the representations of pain and misery . Are these not agitating and are they not justly ...
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... object is to persuade people to action , and yet that sermons are often called pathetic . This fact need not disturb our definition . For , 1o , While it is one of a preacher's objects to persuade to action , it is not his only object ...
... object is to persuade people to action , and yet that sermons are often called pathetic . This fact need not disturb our definition . For , 1o , While it is one of a preacher's objects to persuade to action , it is not his only object ...
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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