A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleGinn, 1892 - 552 pages |
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... ordinary structure of sentences , and thus are distinguished from such figures as are departures from the ordinary application of words . According to the distinction of the old grammarians , they are " figures , " as distingushed from ...
... ordinary structure of sentences , and thus are distinguished from such figures as are departures from the ordinary application of words . According to the distinction of the old grammarians , they are " figures , " as distingushed from ...
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... ordinary application , and pressed , as it were , into special service . Now only a limited number of figures of speech consist in this extraordinary use of single words ; it would be con- venient to have a common designation for them ...
... ordinary application , and pressed , as it were , into special service . Now only a limited number of figures of speech consist in this extraordinary use of single words ; it would be con- venient to have a common designation for them ...
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... ordinary senses , precision is not a mode of perspicuity , but a quality in some meas- ure antagonistic to perspicuity . Blair might have drawn a line . between perspicuity and precision , and made them two separate intellectual ...
... ordinary senses , precision is not a mode of perspicuity , but a quality in some meas- ure antagonistic to perspicuity . Blair might have drawn a line . between perspicuity and precision , and made them two separate intellectual ...
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... ordinary course of the world . In his own record , things that are insignificant as objects of general interest assume the proportions that all human beings must assign to the events of their own life . His first great affliction was ...
... ordinary course of the world . In his own record , things that are insignificant as objects of general interest assume the proportions that all human beings must assign to the events of their own life . His first great affliction was ...
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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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abrupt abstruse admiration antithesis appear Cæsars 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.