A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleW. Blackwood, 1881 - 548 pages |
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... whole , this is a charming contribution to the ęsthetical literature of our country , and as far as we are able to judge , no book since Hazlett's Lectures has approached it in the breadth and fulness of its judgment of old English ...
... whole , this is a charming contribution to the ęsthetical literature of our country , and as far as we are able to judge , no book since Hazlett's Lectures has approached it in the breadth and fulness of its judgment of old English ...
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... whole , produced , with discriminating labour , a good book . " - Spectator . " Mr Minto's is no common book , but a very careful and well - considered survey of the wide field he traverses a survey undertaken not without con- siderable ...
... whole , produced , with discriminating labour , a good book . " - Spectator . " Mr Minto's is no common book , but a very careful and well - considered survey of the wide field he traverses a survey undertaken not without con- siderable ...
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... whole , this is a charming contribution to the ęsthetical literature of our country , and as far as we are able to judge , no book since Hazlett's Lectures has approached it in the breadth and fulness of its judgment of old English ...
... whole , this is a charming contribution to the ęsthetical literature of our country , and as far as we are able to judge , no book since Hazlett's Lectures has approached it in the breadth and fulness of its judgment of old English ...
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... whole wealth of the English vocabulary . The extent of each man's mastery can be ascertained with exactness only by an actual numerical calcu- lation , such as has been made for the poetry of Shakspeare and Milton . This has not yet ...
... whole wealth of the English vocabulary . The extent of each man's mastery can be ascertained with exactness only by an actual numerical calcu- lation , such as has been made for the poetry of Shakspeare and Milton . This has not yet ...
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... whole art of style under the " Kinds of Composition : " every excellence of style is either good description , good narration , good exposition , good persuasion , or good poetry . The divisions are far from being mutually exclusive ...
... whole art of style under the " Kinds of Composition : " every excellence of style is either good description , good narration , good exposition , good persuasion , or good poetry . The divisions are far from being mutually exclusive ...
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abstruse Addison admiration antithesis appearance Ben Jonson called Carlyle Carlyle's character Chartism Church Church of England clear comparison criticism death described diction doctrine Dr Johnson effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Essay Euphuism example exposition expression favour favourite feelings 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 objects opinion opium original Oxford paragraph particular passage pathos peculiar perhaps period periodic sentence person perspicuous pleasure poet poetry political popular probably prose published QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards says sense sentences similitudes simplicity sometimes statement sublimity Tatler things tion translation Whig Wicliffe words writers wrote
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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...