A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleGinn, 1895 - 552 pages |
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... Intellectual Qualities - Simplicity and Clearness , Emotional Qualities- Strength , Pathos , The Ludicrous , Elegancies of Style - Melody , Harmony , Taste , KINDS OF COMPOSITION , • Description , · Narration , Exposition , Persuasion ...
... Intellectual Qualities - Simplicity and Clearness , Emotional Qualities- Strength , Pathos , The Ludicrous , Elegancies of Style - Melody , Harmony , Taste , KINDS OF COMPOSITION , • Description , · Narration , Exposition , Persuasion ...
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... INTELLECTUAL QUALITIES OF STYLE- SIMPLICITY AND CLEARNESS . The Aristotle recognises but one intellectual quality , clearness . first requisite of composition is that it be clear . So Quintilian : " The first virtue of eloquence is ...
... INTELLECTUAL QUALITIES OF STYLE- SIMPLICITY AND CLEARNESS . The Aristotle recognises but one intellectual quality , clearness . first requisite of composition is that it be clear . So Quintilian : " The first virtue of eloquence is ...
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... intellectual quality — namely , precision . He described precision as " the high- est part of the quality denoted by perspicuity , " and then made the following contrast between precision and perspicuity " in a quali- fied sense ...
... intellectual quality — namely , precision . He described precision as " the high- est part of the quality denoted by perspicuity , " and then made the following contrast between precision and perspicuity " in a quali- fied sense ...
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... intellectual qualities . Had Campbell not been needlessly anxious to isolate the style from the subject - matter , he would never have thought of huddling together all the emotional quali ties under the name of vivacity.1 There are ...
... intellectual qualities . Had Campbell not been needlessly anxious to isolate the style from the subject - matter , he would never have thought of huddling together all the emotional quali ties under the name of vivacity.1 There are ...
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... intellectual tendencies , and the education of each individual . A person of strong tender feel- ings is not easily offended by the iteration of pathetic images ; the sense of the ludicrous and of humour is in many cases entirely ...
... intellectual tendencies , and the education of each individual . A person of strong tender feel- ings is not easily offended by the iteration of pathetic images ; the sense of the ludicrous and of humour is in many cases entirely ...
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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