A Manual of English Prose LiteratureWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 634 sider |
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Side x
... TO 1670 . THOMAS FULLER- Life , Character , Elements of Style , Qualities of Style ( Simplicity , Perspicuity , Pathos , Wit and Humour ) , . 304 305 306 310 JEREMY TAYLOR- Life , 316 Character , 317 Opinions , X CONTENTS .
... TO 1670 . THOMAS FULLER- Life , Character , Elements of Style , Qualities of Style ( Simplicity , Perspicuity , Pathos , Wit and Humour ) , . 304 305 306 310 JEREMY TAYLOR- Life , 316 Character , 317 Opinions , X CONTENTS .
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... Perspicuity ) , Kinds of Composition ( Description , Exposition , Persuasion ) , 570 573 ROBERT HALL— Life , 579 Character , 580 Opinions , 581 Elements of Style , 582 Qualities of Style ( Abstruseness , Clearness , Strength , Pathos ) ...
... Perspicuity ) , Kinds of Composition ( Description , Exposition , Persuasion ) , 570 573 ROBERT HALL— Life , 579 Character , 580 Opinions , 581 Elements of Style , 582 Qualities of Style ( Abstruseness , Clearness , Strength , Pathos ) ...
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... perspicuous - care must be taken that the point of the comparison be clear , that there be no distracting circumstances , and that the comparison be more intelligible to those addressed than the thing compared . When a similitude is ...
... perspicuous - care must be taken that the point of the comparison be clear , that there be no distracting circumstances , and that the comparison be more intelligible to those addressed than the thing compared . When a similitude is ...
Side 17
... perspicuity and propriety . And Blair maintains that " all the qualities of a good style may be ranged under two heads , perspicuity and ornament . " Such vague fumbling is inevitable so long as qualities of style are viewed in the ...
... perspicuity and propriety . And Blair maintains that " all the qualities of a good style may be ranged under two heads , perspicuity and ornament . " Such vague fumbling is inevitable so long as qualities of style are viewed in the ...
Side 18
... perspicuity ; that if an author's ideas are clear , he should always be able to make them perspicuous to others . Perspicuous , as Blair understands the word , means easily seen through ; and it may be doubted whether any powers of ...
... perspicuity ; that if an author's ideas are clear , he should always be able to make them perspicuous to others . Perspicuous , as Blair understands the word , means easily seen through ; and it may be doubted whether any powers of ...
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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