A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleGinn, 1895 - 552 pages |
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... tion , as well as to readers more advanced than those kept specially in view . It The characteristics of the work are briefly these . deals with prose alone , assigning books of fiction to the department of poetry ; it endeavours to ...
... tion , as well as to readers more advanced than those kept specially in view . It The characteristics of the work are briefly these . deals with prose alone , assigning books of fiction to the department of poetry ; it endeavours to ...
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... tion , What should we do to acquire a good style ? A principal aim in this Manual is to make students familiar with the fact that there are varieties of good style . In- stead of aiming blindly at the acquisition of " a good style ...
... tion , What should we do to acquire a good style ? A principal aim in this Manual is to make students familiar with the fact that there are varieties of good style . In- stead of aiming blindly at the acquisition of " a good style ...
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... tion . We find also in practice that it serves as a guide to the proper arrangement of the important words . Under a natural sense of effect the important word is often reserved for the last place , the best position for emphasis ...
... tion . We find also in practice that it serves as a guide to the proper arrangement of the important words . Under a natural sense of effect the important word is often reserved for the last place , the best position for emphasis ...
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... tion could hardly be other than heterogeneous.1 One of the ancient terms it might be well to revive and redefine in accordance with its derivation and original application - namely , the word " trope . " At present , when used at all ...
... tion could hardly be other than heterogeneous.1 One of the ancient terms it might be well to revive and redefine in accordance with its derivation and original application - namely , the word " trope . " At present , when used at all ...
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... tion . We need two broad divisions , simplicity and clearness , and a subdivision of clearness into general clearness and minute clear- ness . This more exact division I shall briefly explain : it is not arbitrary dictatorial ...
... tion . We need two broad divisions , simplicity and clearness , and a subdivision of clearness into general clearness and minute clear- ness . This more exact division I shall briefly explain : it is not arbitrary dictatorial ...
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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