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... gives color to the general impression that style means good style , just as criticism is often taken to mean unfavorable criticism , or manners to mean civil behavior . Very ex- cellent authorities sometimes declare that a given writer ...
... gives color to the general impression that style means good style , just as criticism is often taken to mean unfavorable criticism , or manners to mean civil behavior . Very ex- cellent authorities sometimes declare that a given writer ...
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... give it material existence . Thought and emotion , the substance of what style ex- presses , are things so common , so incessant in earthly experience , that we trouble ourselves to consider them . as little as we bother our heads about ...
... give it material existence . Thought and emotion , the substance of what style ex- presses , are things so common , so incessant in earthly experience , that we trouble ourselves to consider them . as little as we bother our heads about ...
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... gives the name " Clearness ; " to the emotional , " Force ; " to the æsthetic , " Elegance . " - To define this generalization , a concrete example is perhaps worth while . In choosing one from personal experience , I commit what many ...
... gives the name " Clearness ; " to the emotional , " Force ; " to the æsthetic , " Elegance . " - To define this generalization , a concrete example is perhaps worth while . In choosing one from personal experience , I commit what many ...
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... gives to letters the significance which we all understand al- most intuitively is simply and solely the tacit agree- ment of the people who have used them . The only reason why we should not spell schooner as a small boy lately spelled ...
... gives to letters the significance which we all understand al- most intuitively is simply and solely the tacit agree- ment of the people who have used them . The only reason why we should not spell schooner as a small boy lately spelled ...
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... give , for convenience ' sake , the name " Good Use . " - I have dwelt on this elementary phase of good use because the reason why the articulate sounds these black marks symbolize are anything more to us than meaningless noises is ...
... give , for convenience ' sake , the name " Good Use . " - I have dwelt on this elementary phase of good use because the reason why the articulate sounds these black marks symbolize are anything more to us than meaningless noises is ...
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English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute Barrett Wendell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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apply beginning Ben Jonson better catch the eye chapter chief chiefly clause clear Comedy of Errors commonplace composed composition of paragraphs composition of sentences connectives consider course definite deliberate denotation and connotation discourse distinct effect elements of style English English language example express fact Fisher Ames glance grammar graph Harvard College human impression Jefferson Davis kind language Latin literature matter means Midsummer Night's Dream mind never notable number of words order of words ourselves palpable perhaps periodic periodic sentences phrase piece of style precisely pretty principle of Coherence principle of Mass principle of Unity principles of composition Publius Crassus purpose question reader relation remember Saxon scream Sejanus sense Shakspere short simple Sir Thomas Browne Solecism speech subtile suggest tell tence thing thought and emotion tion trait usage whoever whole compositions wish to produce writing written