A Manual of English Prose LiteratureWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 634 sider |
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Side 52
... Carlyle in his so - called hero - worship . The attitude of mind in worship , as usually understood , is a passive ... Carlyle's attitude , and applies with much greater propriety to De Quincey's . Car- lyle's state of mind seems to be ...
... Carlyle in his so - called hero - worship . The attitude of mind in worship , as usually understood , is a passive ... Carlyle's attitude , and applies with much greater propriety to De Quincey's . Car- lyle's state of mind seems to be ...
Side 53
... Carlyle's hero- worship is more the intoxication of power than the worship of power , the sublime of egotism more than the sublime of adora- tion . The vision of great manifestations of power seems to act upon the one as a stimulant ...
... Carlyle's hero- worship is more the intoxication of power than the worship of power , the sublime of egotism more than the sublime of adora- tion . The vision of great manifestations of power seems to act upon the one as a stimulant ...
Side 58
... Carlyle's , as he is more versatile in the " pitch " of his style , and does not disdain to use the " slang ' of all classes , from Cockney to Oxonian . In his diction , taken as a whole , there is a great preponder- ance of words ...
... Carlyle's , as he is more versatile in the " pitch " of his style , and does not disdain to use the " slang ' of all classes , from Cockney to Oxonian . In his diction , taken as a whole , there is a great preponder- ance of words ...
Side 158
... Carlyle's energies have been to a much greater degree concen- trated upon his books . For nearly half a century he ... Carlyle impresses his hearers by talk very much resembling the 158 THOMAS CARLYLE .
... Carlyle's energies have been to a much greater degree concen- trated upon his books . For nearly half a century he ... Carlyle impresses his hearers by talk very much resembling the 158 THOMAS CARLYLE .
Side 161
... Carlyle's favourite conceptions : the world pictured as a dark simmering pit of Tophet , wild puddle of muddy infatuations , of irreconcilable incoherences , bottomless universal hypocrisies , an ungenuine phantasmagory of a world ...
... Carlyle's favourite conceptions : the world pictured as a dark simmering pit of Tophet , wild puddle of muddy infatuations , of irreconcilable incoherences , bottomless universal hypocrisies , an ungenuine phantasmagory of a world ...
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abstruse Addison admiration antithesis appearance Ben Jonson called Carlyle Carlyle's character Chartism Church Church of England clauses clear criticism death described diction doctrine effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Essays Euphuism example expression favour favourite feelings figures Figures of Speech French French Revolution give Grasmere Henry VII History honour Hooker human humour intellectual interest Jeremy Taylor Johnson King labour language Latin less literary literature living Lord Macaulay Macaulay's manner matter means ment mind moral narrative nature never object opinion opium original Oxford paragraph particular passage pathos peculiar perhaps period periodic sentence person perspicuous pleasure poet poetry political popular probably prose published QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards says sense sentences similitudes simplicity sometimes speech statement sublimity synecdoches Tatler tences things tion translation Whigs Wicliffe words writer wrote