A Manual of English Prose Literature..Blackwood, 1881 - 548 pages |
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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 which are separated in reality , " are much too dogmatic and cramping . Separate particulars must often be brought together in the same sentence . The only universal caution that can be given is , to beware of distracting from ...
... things which are separated in reality , " are much too dogmatic and cramping . Separate particulars must often be brought together in the same sentence . The only universal caution that can be given is , to beware of distracting from ...
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... things . Want of simpli- city 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 16 INTRODUCTION .
... things . Want of simpli- city 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 16 INTRODUCTION .
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... thing from accuracy in the details . In truth , the two are somewhat antagonistic . dwell with minute precision on the ... things can be conveyed in familiar language ; but when we desire to be exact , we must have recourse to terms that ...
... thing from accuracy in the details . In truth , the two are somewhat antagonistic . dwell with minute precision on the ... things can be conveyed in familiar language ; but when we desire to be exact , we must have recourse to terms that ...
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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 Carlyle's denunciation of " whining , puling , sickly senti- mentality ...
... 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 Carlyle's denunciation of " whining , puling , sickly senti- mentality ...
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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...