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... understand the piece of style before you , or do not understand it , or feel more or less in doubt whether you understand it or not . In the second place , you are either inter - ested , or bored , or left indifferent . ELEMENTS AND ...
... understand the piece of style before you , or do not understand it , or feel more or less in doubt whether you understand it or not . In the second place , you are either inter - ested , or bored , or left indifferent . ELEMENTS AND ...
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... understanding , their feelings , their taste . Every quality of style that I know of may be reduced to one of these three classes ; and these three - and these three only are different enough to deserve distinct and careful ...
... understanding , their feelings , their taste . Every quality of style that I know of may be reduced to one of these three classes ; and these three - and these three only are different enough to deserve distinct and careful ...
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... understand at least nine lines out of every ten , and I am sure that I find in the poem both an emotional stimulus that constantly strengthens , and a constantly growing if permanently incomplete delight . In all pieces of style as ...
... understand at least nine lines out of every ten , and I am sure that I find in the poem both an emotional stimulus that constantly strengthens , and a constantly growing if permanently incomplete delight . In all pieces of style as ...
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... 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 it squner is that the prac tice of a century or ...
... 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 it squner is that the prac tice of a century or ...
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... understand so intuitively that we are apt to forget how purely arbi- trary they are ; but we have only to listen to the talk of foreigners — even of Europeans , far more of grunt - ing Indians or clicking Hottentots to be reminded that ...
... understand so intuitively that we are apt to forget how purely arbi- trary they are ; but we have only to listen to the talk of foreigners — even of Europeans , far more of grunt - ing Indians or clicking Hottentots to be reminded that ...
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English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute Barrett Wendell Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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