A Manual of English Prose LiteratureWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 634 sider |
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... honoured , and , haply it may be , time - shattered 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 , he was a law to ...
... honoured , and , haply it may be , time - shattered 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 , he was a law to ...
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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 agi- tated above other people , every reader's self - conceit takes the alarm , and forthwith scans the writer with cynical antipathy . Two , at least , of his impassioned apostrophes are modelled upon Sir ...
... honoured , afflicted , or agi- tated above other people , every reader's self - conceit takes the alarm , and forthwith scans the writer with cynical antipathy . Two , at least , of his impassioned apostrophes are modelled upon Sir ...
Side 82
... 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 sleeping the sleep of the dead ...
... 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 sleeping the sleep of the dead ...
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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