A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleGinn, 1895 - 552 sider |
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... sense . " This is the common definition of a period , and it is probably difficult to go farther without committing one's self to general statements that will not apply to every period . At the risk of being slightly inaccurate , it ...
... sense . " This is the common definition of a period , and it is probably difficult to go farther without committing one's self to general statements that will not apply to every period . At the risk of being slightly inaccurate , it ...
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... sense , must be regarded as an accident of the period , and not part of its essence . The statements of other writers on composition warrant us in applying the term period to sentences that are not complex . Professor Bain simply says ...
... sense , must be regarded as an accident of the period , and not part of its essence . The statements of other writers on composition warrant us in applying the term period to sentences that are not complex . Professor Bain simply says ...
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... sense of effect the important word is often reserved for the last place , the best position for emphasis . Further , in impassioned prose , as in Raleigh's invocation to Death , and De Quincey's imi- tations - the invocations to Opium ...
... sense of effect the important word is often reserved for the last place , the best position for emphasis . Further , in impassioned prose , as in Raleigh's invocation to Death , and De Quincey's imi- tations - the invocations to Opium ...
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... sense ) , except irregular constructions of sentence . I would propose to rescue the word from an application so promiscuous , and to settle it in its original application as a name for a much narrower class of artifices . Interpreted ...
... sense ) , except irregular constructions of sentence . I would propose to rescue the word from an application so promiscuous , and to settle it in its original application as a name for a much narrower class of artifices . Interpreted ...
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... sense . " " It appears , " he said , " that an author may , in a qualified sense , be perspicuous , while yet he is far from being pre- cise . He uses proper words and proper arrangements ; he gives you the idea as clear as he conceives ...
... sense . " " It appears , " he said , " that an author may , in a qualified sense , be perspicuous , while yet he is far from being pre- cise . He uses proper words and proper arrangements ; he gives you the idea as clear as he conceives ...
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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