A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleGinn, 1892 - 552 sider |
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... honours , never mentioned but with affected rapture , the classics of Greece and Rome are seldom read - most of them never ; are they indeed the closet - companions of any man ? Surely it is me that these follies were at an end ; that ...
... honours , never mentioned but with affected rapture , the classics of Greece and Rome are seldom read - most of them never ; are they indeed the closet - companions of any man ? Surely it is me that these follies were at an end ; that ...
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... honour to the person robbed . We may be sure , from the unique finish of his similitudes , that the stolen property would have improved in value under his hands . QUALITIES OF STYLE . Simplicity . De Quincey cannot be ranked among ...
... honour to the person robbed . We may be sure , from the unique finish of his similitudes , that the stolen property would have improved in value under his hands . QUALITIES OF STYLE . Simplicity . De Quincey cannot be ranked among ...
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... honoured , afflicted , or agitated above other people , every reader's self - conceit takes the alarm , and forthwith scans the writer with cynical antipathy . De Quincey is on his guard against mak- ing such a blunder . He does not ...
... honoured , afflicted , or agitated above other people , every reader's self - conceit takes the alarm , and forthwith scans the writer with cynical antipathy . De Quincey is on his guard against mak- ing such a blunder . He does not ...
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... honour from man . Coronets for thee ! Oh no ! Honours , if they come when all is over , are for those that share thy blood . Daughter of Domremy , when the gratitude of thy king shall awaken , thou wilt be sleep- Call her , king of ...
... honour from man . Coronets for thee ! Oh no ! Honours , if they come when all is over , are for those that share thy blood . Daughter of Domremy , when the gratitude of thy king shall awaken , thou wilt be sleep- Call her , king of ...
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... honour to be appointed by your committee to the trying task of reading the Williams ' Lecture on Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts , a task which might be easy enough three or four centuries ago , when the art was little ...
... honour to be appointed by your committee to the trying task of reading the Williams ' Lecture on Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts , a task which might be easy enough three or four centuries ago , when the art was little ...
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abrupt abstruse admiration antithesis appear Cæsars called Carlyle Carlyle's century character Chartism Church Church of England circumstances comparison composition contrast criticism death described diction doctrines Edinburgh Review effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Essays Euphuism example exposition expression fact favour favourite feelings Figures of Speech French French Revolution give Grasmere Henry VIII honour Hooker human humour intellectual interest Jeremy Taylor John Sterling King labour language Latin less literary literature living London Lord Macaulay Macaulay's manner matter means ment mind narrative nature never objects opinion opium Oxford paragraph particular passage pathos peculiar perhaps period periodic sentence perspicuous poetry political popular probably prose QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards Revolution says sense sentence similitudes simplicity statement sublimity synecdoche things THOMAS DE QUINCEY tion translation Whig words writers wrote
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Side 139 - They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realisation and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world: the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these.
Side 287 - 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 245 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Side 205 - Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in the word mimesis, that is to say a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth— to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture, with this end, to teach and delight.
Side 245 - Read, not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Side 285 - ... But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hoo'd, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion...
Side 225 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Side 230 - Talking of stones, stars, plants, of fishes, flies, Playing with words and idle similes...
Side 390 - Women are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an academy for the training up of young women in the exercise of the fan...
Side 471 - The slightest misfortunes of the great, the most imaginary uneasiness of 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.