Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to MacaulayGeorge Saintsbury Kegan Paul, Trench, 1885 - 367 páginas |
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... observed during the whole of the eighteenth century , and with little variation during the first quarter of the nineteenth , a certain range of liberty being given by the increasing subdivi- sion of the subjects of literature , and ...
... observed during the whole of the eighteenth century , and with little variation during the first quarter of the nineteenth , a certain range of liberty being given by the increasing subdivi- sion of the subjects of literature , and ...
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... observed the distinction we are discussing , and has taught many maladroit imitators to neglect it , is , when he is at his best , thoroughly sound . The sentence chosen shall be a long one , such as the writer loves : - " He did not ...
... observed the distinction we are discussing , and has taught many maladroit imitators to neglect it , is , when he is at his best , thoroughly sound . The sentence chosen shall be a long one , such as the writer loves : - " He did not ...
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... observation , is implied in the peppering and salting of sentence after sentence with strange words or with familiar words used strangely . It is not wanted to produce the effect aimed at ; it may safely be added that it produces the ...
... observation , is implied in the peppering and salting of sentence after sentence with strange words or with familiar words used strangely . It is not wanted to produce the effect aimed at ; it may safely be added that it produces the ...
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... observation of it , so far from injuring the delight of reading , add to that delight in an extraordinary degree . It infuses toleration in the study of the worst writers-- for there is at any rate the result of a discovery or an ...
... observation of it , so far from injuring the delight of reading , add to that delight in an extraordinary degree . It infuses toleration in the study of the worst writers-- for there is at any rate the result of a discovery or an ...
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... observations . But yet , since princes will have such things , it is better they should be graced with elegancy , than daubed with cost . Dancing to song , is a thing of great state and plea- sure . I understand it , that the song be in ...
... observations . But yet , since princes will have such things , it is better they should be graced with elegancy , than daubed with cost . Dancing to song , is a thing of great state and plea- sure . I understand it , that the song be in ...
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Página 194 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Página 63 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers...
Página 175 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : why then should we desire to be deceived...
Página 96 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Página 184 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Página 269 - Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink ; for they are worthy.
Página 66 - What could a man require more from a Nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies?
Página 214 - The probability that any particular person shall ever be qualified for the employment to which he is educated, is very different in different occupations. In the greater part of mechanic trades, success is almost certain ; but very uncertain in the liberal professions. Put your son apprentice to a shoemaker, there is little doubt of his learning to make a pair of shoes : but send him to study the law, it is at least twenty to one if ever he makes such proficiency as will enable him to live by the...
Página 32 - So that the sum of all is : ready writing makes not good writing; but good writing brings on ready writing. Yet when we think we have got the faculty, it is even then good to resist it...
Página 164 - ... adventures. There let him work for twelve books; at the end of which you may take him out ready prepared to conquer, or to marry; it being necessary that the conclusion of an epic poem be fortunate. To make an Episode. — Take any remaining adventure of your former collection, in which you could no way involve your hero; or any unfortunate accident that was too good to be thrown away; and it will be of use applied to any other person, who may be lost and evaporate in the course of the work,...