A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleGinn, 1892 - 552 pages |
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... which he might connect with a power so rarely attained , and which , under ordinary circumstances , so readily transmutes itself into a disproportionate C admiration of the author , in him was absolutely swallowed LIFE . 33.
... which he might connect with a power so rarely attained , and which , under ordinary circumstances , so readily transmutes itself into a disproportionate C admiration of the author , in him was absolutely swallowed LIFE . 33.
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Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of Style William Minto. admiration of the author , in him was absolutely swallowed up in the tremendous hold taken of his entire sensibilities at this time by our own ...
Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of Style William Minto. admiration of the author , in him was absolutely swallowed up in the tremendous hold taken of his entire sensibilities at this time by our own ...
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... admiration . But it is alleged that he was vain in the second sense ; that he makes a complacently ostentatious display of his ancestral line , of his aristocratic con- nections , of his romantic adventures , of his philosophical know ...
... admiration . But it is alleged that he was vain in the second sense ; that he makes a complacently ostentatious display of his ancestral line , of his aristocratic con- nections , of his romantic adventures , of his philosophical know ...
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... admiration for the extra- ordinary qualities of these men , but he knew exactly where their strength lay ; he knew that both were men of special strength combined with special infirmity , and in his " Recollections " of them , while ...
... admiration for the extra- ordinary qualities of these men , but he knew exactly where their strength lay ; he knew that both were men of special strength combined with special infirmity , and in his " Recollections " of them , while ...
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... admiration , or with a dry business tone , concerning objects usually regarded with horror and indignation . Whatever he does , as we shall see when we come to exemplify his humour , he does all with good - nature . He seldom applies ...
... admiration , or with a dry business tone , concerning objects usually regarded with horror and indignation . Whatever he does , as we shall see when we come to exemplify his humour , he does all with good - nature . He seldom applies ...
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abrupt abstruse admiration antithesis appear Cęsars called Carlyle Carlyle's century character Chartism Church Church of England circumstances comparison composition contrast criticism death described diction doctrines Edinburgh Review effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Essays Euphuism example exposition expression fact 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 mind narrative nature never objects opinion opium Oxford paragraph particular passage pathos peculiar perhaps period periodic sentence perspicuous poetry political popular probably prose QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards Revolution says sense sentence similitudes simplicity statement sublimity synecdoche things THOMAS DE QUINCEY tion translation Whig words writers wrote
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Page 139 - They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realisation and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world: the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these.
Page 287 - 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 inconstant — descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the...
Page 245 - 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 205 - Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in the word mimesis, that is to say a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth— to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture, with this end, to teach and delight.
Page 245 - 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...
Page 285 - ... But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hoo'd, and at first it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven, as a lamb's fleece; but when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness, and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke its stalk, and at night having lost some of its leaves, and all its beauty, it fell into the portion...
Page 225 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 230 - Talking of stones, stars, plants, of fishes, flies, Playing with words and idle similes...
Page 390 - Women are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an academy for the training up of young women in the exercise of the fan...
Page 471 - The slightest misfortunes of the great, the most imaginary uneasiness of the rich, are aggravated with all the power of eloquence, and held up to engage our attention and sympathetic sorrow. The poor weep unheeded, persecuted by every subordinate species of tyranny ; and every law which gives others security, becomes an enemy to them.