A Manual of English Prose LiteratureWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 634 sider |
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... moral sentiment may be such as to recoil from inflicting ludi- crous degradation . A mind bent on the pursuit of truth views with distaste the exaggerations of the poetic art . Each person is by education attached more to one school or ...
... moral sentiment may be such as to recoil from inflicting ludi- crous degradation . A mind bent on the pursuit of truth views with distaste the exaggerations of the poetic art . Each person is by education attached more to one school or ...
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... moral sensibilities , and put him into such a condition of mind that he was ready to laugh at anything , no matter how venerable . It is sometimes said that opium had a similar effect upon De Quincey . But , as he would have delighted ...
... moral sensibilities , and put him into such a condition of mind that he was ready to laugh at anything , no matter how venerable . It is sometimes said that opium had a similar effect upon De Quincey . But , as he would have delighted ...
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... morals ( whether social or domestic ) had no connection whatever with the national religion - nor could , through ... morality . " Only a mind accustomed daily to " survey mankind from China to Peru " could grasp a sentence of such ...
... morals ( whether social or domestic ) had no connection whatever with the national religion - nor could , through ... morality . " Only a mind accustomed daily to " survey mankind from China to Peru " could grasp a sentence of such ...
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... moral echoes , so solemn and pathetic , that lingered in the ear from her stately tragedies , all spoke with the ... morals , or sometimes - which even FIGURES OF SPEECH . 67.
... moral echoes , so solemn and pathetic , that lingered in the ear from her stately tragedies , all spoke with the ... morals , or sometimes - which even FIGURES OF SPEECH . 67.
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William Minto. tion of violated morals , or sometimes - which even more thrillingly spoke to human sensibilities - of guilt too awful to be expiated . And in the midst of these appalling records , what is their ultimate solution ? From ...
William Minto. tion of violated morals , or sometimes - which even more thrillingly spoke to human sensibilities - of guilt too awful to be expiated . And in the midst of these appalling records , what is their ultimate solution ? From ...
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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