The Works of Thomas De Quincey: Style and rhetoric and other papersA. & C. Black, 1862 |
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... popular reading . The limitations , as regarded space , which this association found itself obliged to impose , put an end to all hopes that any opening could be found in this case for an improved life as regarded research into the ...
... popular reading . The limitations , as regarded space , which this association found itself obliged to impose , put an end to all hopes that any opening could be found in this case for an improved life as regarded research into the ...
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... popular purposes . It was pretty well known also , that dreadful pecuniary embarrassments would at last compel the king to summon , in right earnest , such a Parliament as would no longer be manageable , but would in the very first week ...
... popular purposes . It was pretty well known also , that dreadful pecuniary embarrassments would at last compel the king to summon , in right earnest , such a Parliament as would no longer be manageable , but would in the very first week ...
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... popular in any but a meagre comparative sense as an artist of whatsoever class , is to be confessedly a condescender to human infirmities . And as to the test which Dr. John- son , by implication , proposes as trying the merits of ...
... popular in any but a meagre comparative sense as an artist of whatsoever class , is to be confessedly a condescender to human infirmities . And as to the test which Dr. John- son , by implication , proposes as trying the merits of ...
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... popularity , not known at all under that name , but under the nom - de - plume of Friederich Laun . A judicious ... popular taste , and adapting himself to the immediate demands of the market : thirdly , as pos sessing considerable ...
... popularity , not known at all under that name , but under the nom - de - plume of Friederich Laun . A judicious ... popular taste , and adapting himself to the immediate demands of the market : thirdly , as pos sessing considerable ...
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... popular use two separate ideas of rhetoric , one of which is occupied with the general end of the fine arts ; that is to say , intellectual pleasure . The other applies itself more specifically to a definite purpose of utility , viz ...
... popular use two separate ideas of rhetoric , one of which is occupied with the general end of the fine arts ; that is to say , intellectual pleasure . The other applies itself more specifically to a definite purpose of utility , viz ...
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Էջ 56 - Such are their ideas ; such their religion, and such their law. But as to our country and our race, as long as the wellcompacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple...
Էջ 57 - As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...
Էջ 56 - Sion — as long as the British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...
Էջ 120 - And, last of all, an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name, A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.
Էջ 90 - Thus much I should perhaps have said though I were sure I should have spoken only to trees and stones; and had none to cry to, but with the Prophet, O earth, earth, earth!
Էջ 57 - ... and each other's rights ; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity, — as long as these endure, so long the Duke of Bedford is safe, and we are all safe together : the high from the blights of envy and the spoliation of rapacity ; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt. Amen ! and so be it : and so it will be ' Dum Domus ^Enese Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet, imperiumque Pater...
Էջ 251 - Euripides ; and that his pupils ^Eschines and Demosthenes contended for the crown of patriotism in the presence of Aristotle, the master of Theophrastus, who taught at Athens with the founders of the Stoic and Epicurean sects.
Էջ 37 - Few writers have shown a more extraordinary compass of powers than Donne ; for he combined — what no other man has ever done — the last sublimation of dialectical subtlety and address with the most impassioned majesty.
Էջ 272 - ... union is too subtle; the intertexture too ineffable, each co-existing not merely with the other, but each in and through the other. An image, for instance, a single word, often enters into a thought as a constituent part. In short, the two elements are not united as a body with a separable dress, but as a mysterious incarnation. And thus, in what proportion the thoughts are subjective, in that same proportion does their very essence become identical with the expression, and the style become confluent...
Էջ 74 - Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain.