A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleGinn, 1895 - 552 pages |
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... called the " Elements of Style " -the choice of words , plain and figurative , and the arrangement of these in sentences and paragraphs . We might , again , take up everything remarkable under the " Qualities of Style " -simplicity ...
... called the " Elements of Style " -the choice of words , plain and figurative , and the arrangement of these in sentences and paragraphs . We might , again , take up everything remarkable under the " Qualities of Style " -simplicity ...
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... called the natural or usual structure in English , the pre- dicate follows the subject , and qualifying adjuncts follow what they qualify : we know the subject before we know the attribute predicated of it or annexed to it . In a period ...
... called the natural or usual structure in English , the pre- dicate follows the subject , and qualifying adjuncts follow what they qualify : we know the subject before we know the attribute predicated of it or annexed to it . In a period ...
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... called the periodic style of writing . It is not the length , the drepavтoλoyla , the par- alytic flux of words . It is not even the cumbrous involution of parts within parts , separately considered , that bears so heavily upon the ...
... called the periodic style of writing . It is not the length , the drepavтoλoyla , the par- alytic flux of words . It is not even the cumbrous involution of parts within parts , separately considered , that bears so heavily upon the ...
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... called " prose fantasies " of De Quincey . II . Sentences studiously Long and studiously Short . - No small element in the mechanical art of sentence - building is the adjustment of the length of the sentence . One of the greatest ...
... called " prose fantasies " of De Quincey . II . Sentences studiously Long and studiously Short . - No small element in the mechanical art of sentence - building is the adjustment of the length of the sentence . One of the greatest ...
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... called figure of speech , climax , " would probably have been referred to the paragraph as a special artifice in paragraph construction . Climax is no more a figure of speech than the periodic , the balanced , or the condensed structure ...
... called figure of speech , climax , " would probably have been referred to the paragraph as a special artifice in paragraph construction . Climax is no more a figure of speech than the periodic , the balanced , or the condensed structure ...
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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