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... sure , and rather good usage too , 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 ...
... sure , and rather good usage too , 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 ...
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... sure of what a thorp is or a croft , I should have to consult a diction- ary . Elegance , then , save for the splendidly sus- tained funereal rhythm , I found as notable for its absence as clearness ; herein , again , the poem was ...
... sure of what a thorp is or a croft , I should have to consult a diction- ary . Elegance , then , save for the splendidly sus- tained funereal rhythm , I found as notable for its absence as clearness ; herein , again , the poem was ...
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... sure , may codify what exists at any given moment . Regarded as codes , they are invaluable ; but at best they are codes of common law , not legislative enact- ments . The only sanction behind them is that of practice , of usage ...
... sure , may codify what exists at any given moment . Regarded as codes , they are invaluable ; but at best they are codes of common law , not legislative enact- ments . The only sanction behind them is that of practice , of usage ...
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... sure , they have supplanted the unquestionably barbarous English pro- nunciation by one which they call probably ancient ; but whether Pericles or Cicero could understand the most punctiliously learned nineteenth - century pro- fessor ...
... sure , they have supplanted the unquestionably barbarous English pro- nunciation by one which they call probably ancient ; but whether Pericles or Cicero could understand the most punctiliously learned nineteenth - century pro- fessor ...
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... Sure , never were seen two such beautiful ponies ; Other horses are clowns , but these macaronies . To give them this title I'm sure is not wrong , Their legs are so slim and their tails are so long . " was a dandy in tights The ...
... Sure , never were seen two such beautiful ponies ; Other horses are clowns , but these macaronies . To give them this title I'm sure is not wrong , Their legs are so slim and their tails are so long . " was a dandy in tights The ...
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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