A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleW. Blackwood, 1881 - 548 sider |
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... French , or German ; against needless coining of new words ; and against setting up of unidiomatic combinations . No writer could make an excessive use of any artifice of construction -balanced sentences , short sentences , condensed ...
... French , or German ; against needless coining of new words ; and against setting up of unidiomatic combinations . No writer could make an excessive use of any artifice of construction -balanced sentences , short sentences , condensed ...
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... French and Latin and he read Greek daily ; " but any slight vanity which he might connect with a power so rarely attained , and which , under ordinary circumstances , so readily transmutes itself into a disproportionate C د , admiration ...
... French and Latin and he read Greek daily ; " but any slight vanity which he might connect with a power so rarely attained , and which , under ordinary circumstances , so readily transmutes itself into a disproportionate C د , admiration ...
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... French Academy , and of the Prussian Order of Merit , High Steward of Cam- bridge ; and in the autumn he was raised to the peerage as Baron Macaulay of Rothley - the first literary man to receive such a distinction . He did not long ...
... French Academy , and of the Prussian Order of Merit , High Steward of Cam- bridge ; and in the autumn he was raised to the peerage as Baron Macaulay of Rothley - the first literary man to receive such a distinction . He did not long ...
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... French ? Yet is it not notorious that Frederic the Great , after reading , speaking , writing French , and nothing but French , during more than half a century , after unlearning his mother tongue in order to learn French , after living ...
... French ? Yet is it not notorious that Frederic the Great , after reading , speaking , writing French , and nothing but French , during more than half a century , after unlearning his mother tongue in order to learn French , after living ...
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... French kings : - " This , " he says , " is as absurd as it would be in a Haytian negro of our time to dwell with national pride on the greatness of Lewis the Fourteenth , and to speak of Blenheim and Ramilies with patriotic regret and ...
... French kings : - " This , " he says , " is as absurd as it would be in a Haytian negro of our time to dwell with national pride on the greatness of Lewis the Fourteenth , and to speak of Blenheim and Ramilies with patriotic regret and ...
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abstruse Addison admiration appearance Ben Jonson Blackwood's Magazine called Carlyle Carlyle's character Chartism Church Church of England clear criticism death described diction doctrine Edinburgh Edinburgh Review effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Essays Euphuism example exposition expression favour favourite feelings figures figures of speech French French Revolution give Grasmere honour Hooker human humour intellectual interest Jeremy Taylor Johnson King labour language Latin less literary literature living London 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 Philosophy pleasure poet poetry political popular prose published QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards says sense sentences similitudes simplicity sometimes speech statement sublimity Tatler things tion translation Whig Wicliffe words writers wrote
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Side 366 - I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.
Side 420 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Side 284 - For so have I seen a lark rising from his bed of grass, and soaring upwards, singing as he rises, and hopes to get to heaven, and climb above the clouds; but the poor bird was beaten back with the loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Side 242 - Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Side 300 - Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working-men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language — no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has...
Side 378 - The knight seeing his habitation reduced to so small a compass, and himself in a manner shut out of his own house, upon the death of his mother ordered all the apartments to be flung open, and exorcised by his chaplain, who lay in every room one after another, and by that means dissipated the fears which had so long reigned in the family.
Side 202 - Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in his word Mimesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth; to speak metaphorically, a 255 speaking picture, with this end, to teach and delight.
Side 209 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Side 467 - ... the rich, are aggravated with all the power of eloquence, and held up to engage our attention and sympathetic sorrow. The poor weep unheeded, persecuted by every subordinate species of tyranny; and every law which gives others security becomes an enemy to them. Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility? or why was not my fortune adapted to its impulse? Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.