A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleGinn, 1895 - 552 pages |
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... French Revolution ; Byron " the interpreter between Wordsworth and the multitude . In dis- cussing the life of Bacon , he finds it necessary to give his opinion of the inductive method . The opinion is very plausible ; but scientific ...
... French Revolution ; Byron " the interpreter between Wordsworth and the multitude . In dis- cussing the life of Bacon , he finds it necessary to give his opinion of the inductive method . The opinion is very plausible ; but scientific ...
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... France ; to make Charles a monarch as absolute as any on the Continent , " & c ... Revolution period for their treachery and want of patriotism . Sir William ... French Republicans as heart- ily as he hated any of our English ancestors ...
... France ; to make Charles a monarch as absolute as any on the Continent , " & c ... Revolution period for their treachery and want of patriotism . Sir William ... French Republicans as heart- ily as he hated any of our English ancestors ...
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... French Revolution . There is not a more deeply interesting chapter in literary history than Mr Froude's account of the accidental destruction of this manuscript , " written as with his heart's blood , " and of the almost unconquerable ...
... French Revolution . There is not a more deeply interesting chapter in literary history than Mr Froude's account of the accidental destruction of this manuscript , " written as with his heart's blood , " and of the almost unconquerable ...
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... French Revolution ' and try to conceive how it was built up , and what care was expended on the separate elements of it before the whole was " flung out of him , " as he said , in the final convulsive effort of composition , we come as ...
... French Revolution ' and try to conceive how it was built up , and what care was expended on the separate elements of it before the whole was " flung out of him , " as he said , in the final convulsive effort of composition , we come as ...
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... French Revolution ' is almost a continued sermon on the evils of in- sincerity , hollowness , quackery , and on the good of the corre- sponding virtues . And in none of his works can we read far without encountering some declamation on ...
... French Revolution ' is almost a continued sermon on the evils of in- sincerity , hollowness , quackery , and on the good of the corre- sponding virtues . And in none of his works can we read far without encountering some declamation on ...
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abrupt abstruse admiration antithesis appear called Carlyle Carlyle's century character Chartism Church Church of England circumstances comparison contrast criticism death described diction doctrines effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Enniscorthy Essays Euphuism example exposition expression fact familiar 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 metonymies mind narrative nature never objects opinion opium ordinary Oxford paragraph Parliament particular passage pathos peculiar perhaps period periodic sentence perspicuous poetry political popular probably prose QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards Revolution Sartor Resartus says sense sentence similitudes simplicity statement sublimity synecdoche things tion translation Whig words writers wrote