A Manual of English Prose LiteratureWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1872 - 634 sider |
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... things . In each of the divisions , the same things are examined , only from different points of view . Each of these divisions , were our examination to be ideally thorough , should exhibit every possible excellence and defect of style ...
... things . In each of the divisions , the same things are examined , only from different points of view . Each of these divisions , were our examination to be ideally thorough , should exhibit every possible excellence and defect of style ...
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... things . Want of simplicity is not an absolute fault ; it is a fault only in relation to the persons addressed . A writer addressing himself purposely to a learned audience only wastes his strength by beating about the bush for lan ...
... things . Want of simplicity is not an absolute fault ; it is a fault only in relation to the persons addressed . A writer addressing himself purposely to a learned audience only wastes his strength by beating about the bush for lan ...
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... things the poet is often heavily censured by the preacher . Sterne's ' Sentimental Journey ' was reprobated by Robert Hall ; and in our own day we are familiar with Car- lyle's denunciation of " whining , puling , sickly sentimentality ...
... things the poet is often heavily censured by the preacher . Sterne's ' Sentimental Journey ' was reprobated by Robert Hall ; and in our own day we are familiar with Car- lyle's denunciation of " whining , puling , sickly sentimentality ...
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... things may be considered . First , agreeable sound , or modulation in general , without any particular expression . Next , the sound so ordered as to become expressive of the sense . " Instead of expressing qualities so different by a ...
... things may be considered . First , agreeable sound , or modulation in general , without any particular expression . Next , the sound so ordered as to become expressive of the sense . " Instead of expressing qualities so different by a ...
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... things or states of mind ; narration all the means of representing particular sequences of events ; exposi- tion all the means of representing general propositions . These may be taken as rough definitions of them in their elemental ...
... things or states of mind ; narration all the means of representing particular sequences of events ; exposi- tion all the means of representing general propositions . These may be taken as rough definitions of them in their elemental ...
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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