A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleW. Blackwood, 1881 - 548 sider |
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... diction . The simple fact of holding a place among the leaders of liter- ature is a proof of extraordinary mastery of language . But can we , without actual numeration , distinguish degrees of mastery ? Most probably we can . We could ...
... diction . The simple fact of holding a place among the leaders of liter- ature is a proof of extraordinary mastery of language . But can we , without actual numeration , distinguish degrees of mastery ? Most probably we can . We could ...
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... diction in its general texture is plain , but who employ a great many formal similitudes . Both classes of writers are figurative , but the one class is rich in tropes , the other in similes . The want of such a word as trope , thus ...
... diction in its general texture is plain , but who employ a great many formal similitudes . Both classes of writers are figurative , but the one class is rich in tropes , the other in similes . The want of such a word as trope , thus ...
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... diction , as a whole , is abstruse . We said a little ago that clearness might be subdivided into general clearness and minute clearness . At that time we men- tioned no single word for general clearness . In our consideration of the ...
... diction , as a whole , is abstruse . We said a little ago that clearness might be subdivided into general clearness and minute clearness . At that time we men- tioned no single word for general clearness . In our consideration of the ...
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... diction , and made fun of absurdities in " The Excursion ; " but he felt the shortcomings with calm discrimination , and was not misled by them into undervaluing the striking originality of Wordsworth's genius . He was one of the most ...
... diction , and made fun of absurdities in " The Excursion ; " but he felt the shortcomings with calm discrimination , and was not misled by them into undervaluing the striking originality of Wordsworth's genius . He was one of the most ...
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... diction , taken as a whole , there is a great preponderance of words derived from the Latin . Lord Brougham's opinion that " the Saxon part of our English idiom is to be favoured at the expense of that part which has so happily ...
... diction , taken as a whole , there is a great preponderance of words derived from the Latin . Lord Brougham's opinion that " the Saxon part of our English idiom is to be favoured at the expense of that part which has so happily ...
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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.