A Manual of English Prose Literature..Blackwood, 1881 - 548 էջ |
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... have best accomplished the same ends . in the same circumstances . Regarding the prominence given to the modern authors , I have only to repeat that the work is intended mainly for students , and to say that the most rewarding PREFACE .
... have best accomplished the same ends . in the same circumstances . Regarding the prominence given to the modern authors , I have only to repeat that the work is intended mainly for students , and to say that the most rewarding PREFACE .
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... circumstances , and that the comparison be more intelligible to those addressed than the thing compared . When a similitude is intended to elevate or to debase an object by displaying its high or its low relations , care must be taken ...
... circumstances , and that the comparison be more intelligible to those addressed than the thing compared . When a similitude is intended to elevate or to debase an object by displaying its high or its low relations , care must be taken ...
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... circumstances , unless , indeed , it is the writer's deliberate purpose to mislead . The edu- cated reader will guess the meaning sooner than the uneducated ; but neither educated nor uneducated should be burdened with the effort of ...
... circumstances , unless , indeed , it is the writer's deliberate purpose to mislead . The edu- cated reader will guess the meaning sooner than the uneducated ; but neither educated nor uneducated should be burdened with the effort of ...
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... circumstances , reconciles us to the pain by dwelling upon its alleviations , represents misery as the inevitable lot of man , ex- hibits the authors of misery as visited with condign punishment , expresses impassioned sympathy with the ...
... circumstances , reconciles us to the pain by dwelling upon its alleviations , represents misery as the inevitable lot of man , ex- hibits the authors of misery as visited with condign punishment , expresses impassioned sympathy with the ...
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... 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.
... 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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A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ... William Minto Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1886 |
A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ... William Minto Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1886 |
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abstruse Addison admiration antithesis appeared Blackwood's Magazine called Carlyle Carlyle's character Chartism Church Church of England clear composition criticism death described diction doctrine Edinburgh Edinburgh Review effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Essays Euphuism example exposition expression favour favourite feelings figures figures of speech French French Revolution give Grasmere Henry VII honour Hooker human humour intellectual interest Jeremy Taylor Johnson King labour language Latin less literary literature living London Lord Macaulay Macaulay's manner matter means ment mind moral narrative nature never object opinion opium original Oxford paragraph particular passage pathos peculiar period periodic sentence person perspicuous Philosophy pleasure poetry political popular prose published QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards says sense sentences similitudes simplicity sometimes speech statement sublimity Tatler things tion translation Whig Wicliffe words writers wrote
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Էջ 242 - 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 ; 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.
Էջ 365 - A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish...
Էջ 102 - The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Էջ 358 - WE have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Էջ 306 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand...
Էջ 284 - 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...
Էջ 364 - I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels, of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom a very great additional grievance ; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these children sound useful members of the commonwealth, would deserve so well of the public as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation.
Էջ 200 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.
Էջ 221 - ... rest himself ; if the Moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve ? See we not plainly that obedience of creatures...