A Manual of English Prose Literature..Blackwood, 1881 - 548 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 66
Page ix
... respect beyond the possibility of honest misap- prehension . Since the first edition was issued , Mr Trevelyan's biography of Lord Macaulay has appeared , and Mr H. A. Page has published two volumes on the Life and Writ- ings of De ...
... respect beyond the possibility of honest misap- prehension . Since the first edition was issued , Mr Trevelyan's biography of Lord Macaulay has appeared , and Mr H. A. Page has published two volumes on the Life and Writ- ings of De ...
Page 10
... respect might hang as long over his sentences as Mr Tennyson is said to hang over his lines , and commit blunders after all . In bring- ing sentences into harmony with this principle of arrangement alone , there is a field for endless ...
... respect might hang as long over his sentences as Mr Tennyson is said to hang over his lines , and commit blunders after all . In bring- ing sentences into harmony with this principle of arrangement alone , there is a field for endless ...
Page 23
... respects particular compositions . A reader may refuse to acknowledge a degradation , however comical . He may view an object too seri- ously to allow that it should be trifled with . A recent critic professes himself blind to the ...
... respects particular compositions . A reader may refuse to acknowledge a degradation , however comical . He may view an object too seri- ously to allow that it should be trifled with . A recent critic professes himself blind to the ...
Page 40
... respects a traditional view is warrantable , and in what respects it is errone- ous . Equally charming to the lover of intellectual subtlety are his deliberate arrays of argument in support of a favourite thesis , as seen in such ...
... respects a traditional view is warrantable , and in what respects it is errone- ous . Equally charming to the lover of intellectual subtlety are his deliberate arrays of argument in support of a favourite thesis , as seen in such ...
Page 48
... respect due to his exalted powers . The truth is , that the charges made against De Quincey's criticisms are due to his unusual comprehensiveness of view and his sensibility to diversities of gifts . He was , to borrow his own words , a ...
... respect due to his exalted powers . The truth is , that the charges made against De Quincey's criticisms are due to his unusual comprehensiveness of view and his sensibility to diversities of gifts . He was , to borrow his own words , a ...
Contents
1 | |
14 | |
20 | |
25 | |
31 | |
38 | |
46 | |
74 | |
286 | |
295 | |
312 | |
328 | |
342 | |
357 | |
373 | |
388 | |
396 | |
409 | |
425 | |
457 | |
469 | |
488 | |
500 | |
509 | |
519 | |
526 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstruse Addison admiration antithesis appeared Blackwood's Magazine called Carlyle Carlyle's character Chartism Church Church of England clear composition 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 Henry VII 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 period periodic sentence person perspicuous Philosophy pleasure 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
Popular passages
Page 242 - 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 ; 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.
Page 365 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Page 102 - The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 358 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Page 306 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand...
Page 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...
Page 364 - I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels, of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance ; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these children sound useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the public as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
Page 200 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Page 221 - ... rest himself ; if the Moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures...