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... reader only by means of our choice and composition of the elements , we may ask ourselves whether the elements of style possess any trait distinctly favor- able to clearness . And we discover that the secret of clearness lies in ...
... reader only by means of our choice and composition of the elements , we may ask ourselves whether the elements of style possess any trait distinctly favor- able to clearness . And we discover that the secret of clearness lies in ...
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... readers , of those to whom it is addressed . Any piece of style , we all know , impresses us in a fairly distinct way , which we rarely take the trouble to define . Most readers never know more about it than that it interests or pleases ...
... readers , of those to whom it is addressed . Any piece of style , we all know , impresses us in a fairly distinct way , which we rarely take the trouble to define . Most readers never know more about it than that it interests or pleases ...
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... readers in three ways , — in- tellectually , emotionally , æsthetically ; to appeal to their understanding , their feelings , their taste . Every quality of style that I know of may be reduced to one of these three classes ; and these ...
... readers in three ways , — in- tellectually , emotionally , æsthetically ; to appeal to their understanding , their feelings , their taste . Every quality of style that I know of may be reduced to one of these three classes ; and these ...
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... reader is apt to know , are purely arbitrary . Whoever knows an alphabet , however , as all of us know the twenty - six letters that compose written English , sees in these black marks , not the marks themselves , but the ideas they ...
... reader is apt to know , are purely arbitrary . Whoever knows an alphabet , however , as all of us know the twenty - six letters that compose written English , sees in these black marks , not the marks themselves , but the ideas they ...
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... readers no- tice the beginning and the end of compositions a good deal more readily than the parts that come between is the fact on which the principle of Mass is based . A writer who is careful so to mass his compositions as to put in ...
... readers no- tice the beginning and the end of compositions a good deal more readily than the parts that come between is the fact on which the principle of Mass is based . A writer who is careful so to mass his compositions as to put in ...
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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