Studies in Literature and StyleA. C. Armstrong & Son, 1890 - 297 Seiten |
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... gives it a personal potency . We see and hear the man himself conversing with us , and , thus , " choose an author as we choose a friend , " on the basis of his individual qualities . That soul must be soured , indeed , and bent on ...
... gives it a personal potency . We see and hear the man himself conversing with us , and , thus , " choose an author as we choose a friend , " on the basis of his individual qualities . That soul must be soured , indeed , and bent on ...
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... gives what the artists call tone to character . It is synonymous with refinement of spirit and bearing , with that nice regard to the amenities and proprieties which always serves to charm us when it is naturally expressed . More than ...
... gives what the artists call tone to character . It is synonymous with refinement of spirit and bearing , with that nice regard to the amenities and proprieties which always serves to charm us when it is naturally expressed . More than ...
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... give character to style , making it a poten- tial element in the world's mental progress . Au- thorship , after all , must be ranked in the light of its intellectual qualities , back of all that is merely verbal or æsthetic . The ...
... give character to style , making it a poten- tial element in the world's mental progress . Au- thorship , after all , must be ranked in the light of its intellectual qualities , back of all that is merely verbal or æsthetic . The ...
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... give it permanence in history . This is one of the primary offices of the style before us . It opposes the undue influences of the unintellectual in writing . It insists upon the primacy of mental faculty and method in letters over all ...
... give it permanence in history . This is one of the primary offices of the style before us . It opposes the undue influences of the unintellectual in writing . It insists upon the primacy of mental faculty and method in letters over all ...
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... give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men . - Bacon's " Advancement of Learning . " In that great social organ , which , collectively , we call Lit- erature , there may be distinguished two separate ...
... give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men . - Bacon's " Advancement of Learning . " In that great social organ , which , collectively , we call Lit- erature , there may be distinguished two separate ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison æsthetic American Arnold authorship beauty Ben Jonson called Carlyle character Charles Lamb Charlotte Brontë classical conspicuous culture discussion distinct Doctor Johnson element element of style Emerson Emerson's prose emotive England English prose English style especially essays Essays of Elia essential ethical evinced expression fact feeling fiction genius George Eliot give Göethe heart Holmes human humor impassioned influence insists instinct intel intellectual judgment language literary criticism literature and style logical Lowell Macaulay marked Matthew Arnold ment mental method Micawber Milton mind modern Molière moral nation nature never opinion order of style Over-Soul passion philosophic Plato pleasantry poet poetic poetry present principle prose writer province Quincey reader rebuke satire seen sense Shakespeare sion soul speak sphere spirit Stedman student taste tendency thing thinker Thomas Arnold thought tion true truth verse Whipple word
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Seite 58 - There is, first, the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach ; the function of the second is to move ; the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Seite 91 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild, and free, and humane government; it is the liberty, lords and commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us, — liberty which is the nurse of all great wits; this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions degrees...
Seite 231 - Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact...
Seite 91 - Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty.
Seite 250 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.
Seite 58 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Seite 92 - Advance, then, ye future generations ! We would hail you, as you rise in your long succession, to fill the places which we now fill, and to taste the blessings of existence, where we are passing, and soon shall have passed, our own human duration. We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of the Fathers.
Seite 279 - I rarely read any Latin, Greek, German, Italian, sometimes not a French book in the original, which I can procure in a good version. I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
Seite 114 - As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me ; 'twas a handsome Milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale.
Seite 92 - I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It is not said, that, in the long period of my service, I have, in a single instance, sacrificed the slightest of your interests to my ambition or to my fortune. It is not alleged, that, to gratify any anger or revenge of my own, or of my party, I have had a share in wronging or oppressing any description of men, or any one man in any description.