Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to MacaulayGeorge Saintsbury K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 367 páginas |
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... means , but let us not try to make out that Alexander's wry neck is worthy of an Apollo or an Antinous . Among the chief reasons for this slowness on the part even of great writers in recognizing the more obvious requirements of English ...
... means , but let us not try to make out that Alexander's wry neck is worthy of an Apollo or an Antinous . Among the chief reasons for this slowness on the part even of great writers in recognizing the more obvious requirements of English ...
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... is true that in rejecting what they thought , in many instances rightly , to be barbarisms , they to a great extent lost the secret of a splendour which had been by no means exclusively or often barbaric . They ENGLISH PROSE STYLE . xxiii.
... is true that in rejecting what they thought , in many instances rightly , to be barbarisms , they to a great extent lost the secret of a splendour which had been by no means exclusively or often barbaric . They ENGLISH PROSE STYLE . xxiii.
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From Malory to Macaulay George Saintsbury. been by no means exclusively or often barbaric . They were unrivalled in vigour , not easily to be beaten in sober grace , abundantly capable of wit , but as a rule they lacked magnifi- cence ...
From Malory to Macaulay George Saintsbury. been by no means exclusively or often barbaric . They were unrivalled in vigour , not easily to be beaten in sober grace , abundantly capable of wit , but as a rule they lacked magnifi- cence ...
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... means peculiar to himself , but may be found alike in the prose and the verse of writers over whom he exercised little or no influence . The altered style , however , in the hands of capable men became somewhat more suitable for the ...
... means peculiar to himself , but may be found alike in the prose and the verse of writers over whom he exercised little or no influence . The altered style , however , in the hands of capable men became somewhat more suitable for the ...
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... means too obvious , it becomes monotonous and disgusting . It is a considerable encourage- ment to sonorous platitude , and ( as satirists have sometimes amused themselves by showing ) it can easily be used to dis- guise and carry off ...
... means too obvious , it becomes monotonous and disgusting . It is a considerable encourage- ment to sonorous platitude , and ( as satirists have sometimes amused themselves by showing ) it can easily be used to dis- guise and carry off ...
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Addison APHRA BEHN appear authority Barnardine beauty better body born breath called character church Cicero common conversation Conyers Middleton cried DAVID HUME death died divine effect enemy England English prose eyes faculty fancy father favour fear friends GEORGE BERKELEY GILBERT BURNET give hand hath heard heaven honour Horace Walpole horse human humour imagination JONATHAN SWIFT kind king knowledge lady Lady Mary Pierrepont laws less literary live London look Lord manner Mansoul matter means mind miracle nation nature never observed once passions perhaps person pleasure poetry poor prince principles racter reason religion ROBERT SOUTH seemed Seithenyn sense Sir Ector sometimes soul spirit style suffer suppose temper things THOMAS GRAY thou thought tion TOBIAS SMOLLETT told took truth unto virtue whole William Waller words writers
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Página 192 - 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 59 - 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 173 - 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 60 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 60 - To be still searching what we know not by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional), this is the golden rule in theology as well as in arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a Church; not the forced and outward /\ union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Página 182 - 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 22 - THESE things are but toys, to come amongst such serious observations. But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy than daubed with cost.
Página 212 - 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 28 - 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 327 - ... a word, a trait in the representation of a scene or a passion, will touch the enchanted chord, and reanimate, in those who have ever experienced these emotions, the sleeping, the cold, the buried image of the past. Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world...