A Manual of English Prose LiteratureWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 634 sider |
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... living world . What casts doubt upon our conclusions is the fact , that so many writers are similitude - hunters , are very often on the watch for good similitudes ; and the consequent presumption that they utilise a large proportion of ...
... living world . What casts doubt upon our conclusions is the fact , that so many writers are similitude - hunters , are very often on the watch for good similitudes ; and the consequent presumption that they utilise a large proportion of ...
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... living among multitudes who owed to thee their daily bread . " In the matter of study , he was a law to himself . He told his tutor in that notable conversation that he was reading Paley ; but in point of fact he had been " reading and ...
... living among multitudes who owed to thee their daily bread . " In the matter of study , he was a law to himself . He told his tutor in that notable conversation that he was reading Paley ; but in point of fact he had been " reading and ...
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... living friends , he usually practises a delicate reserve , and veils his tenderness under the mask of humour . Yet even to this there are some exceptions , such as the touching address to his absent wife in the Opium Confessions . In ...
... living friends , he usually practises a delicate reserve , and veils his tenderness under the mask of humour . Yet even to this there are some exceptions , such as the touching address to his absent wife in the Opium Confessions . In ...
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... living persons , and then in such a way that none but very touchy subjects could take offence . Indeed , so playful and stingless is his humour , that many profess themselves unable to see any- thing to laugh at in his peculiar ...
... living persons , and then in such a way that none but very touchy subjects could take offence . Indeed , so playful and stingless is his humour , that many profess themselves unable to see any- thing to laugh at in his peculiar ...
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... living agents . This mannerism pervades all De Quincey's writings , and is so characteristic that we at once think of him when we find it appearing strongly in another writer . A few examples give but a faint impression compared with ...
... living agents . This mannerism pervades all De Quincey's writings , and is so characteristic that we at once think of him when we find it appearing strongly in another writer . A few examples give but a faint impression compared with ...
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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