A Manual of English Prose LiteratureWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 634 sider |
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... admiration of the author , in him was abso- lutely swallowed up in the tremendous hold taken of his entire sensibilities at this time by our own literature . " In his ' Recollections of Coleridge ' he says , " From 1803 to 1808 I was a ...
... admiration of the author , in him was abso- lutely swallowed up in the tremendous hold taken of his entire sensibilities at this time by our own literature . " In his ' Recollections of Coleridge ' he says , " From 1803 to 1808 I was a ...
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... admiration . But it is alleged that he was vain in the second sense ; that he makes a complacently ostentatious display of his ancestral line , of his aristocratic connections , of his romantic adventures , of his philo- sophical ...
... admiration . But it is alleged that he was vain in the second sense ; that he makes a complacently ostentatious display of his ancestral line , of his aristocratic connections , of his romantic adventures , of his philo- sophical ...
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... admiration for the extraordinary qualities of these men , but he knew exactly where their strength lay ; he knew that both were men of special strength combined with special infirmity , and in his " Recollections " of them , while doing ...
... admiration for the extraordinary qualities of these men , but he knew exactly where their strength lay ; he knew that both were men of special strength combined with special infirmity , and in his " Recollections " of them , while doing ...
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... admiration , or with a dry business tone , concerning ob- jects usually regarded with horror and indignation . Whatever he does , as we shall see when we come to exemplify his humour , he does all with good - nature . He seldom applies ...
... admiration , or with a dry business tone , concerning ob- jects usually regarded with horror and indignation . Whatever he does , as we shall see when we come to exemplify his humour , he does all with good - nature . He seldom applies ...
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... admirable qualifications for settling the scale of such critical distinctions which that man must have had who turned out upon this vast world the single oracular word ' correctness ' to shift for itself , and explain its own meaning to ...
... admirable qualifications for settling the scale of such critical distinctions which that man must have had who turned out upon this vast world the single oracular word ' correctness ' to shift for itself , and explain its own meaning to ...
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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