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Side 4
... style of narrative perspicuity is the first object , an author should be careful that every sentence may present a distinct image , for nothing confuses more than when several circumstances are blended or complicated one with another ...
... style of narrative perspicuity is the first object , an author should be careful that every sentence may present a distinct image , for nothing confuses more than when several circumstances are blended or complicated one with another ...
Side 5
... style of oratory we expect the flights and ec- centricities of fancy ; we can forgive something that may disgust where there is much to please ; but in that of narrative we expect an even flow , not turbid or impure .. The degree of ...
... style of oratory we expect the flights and ec- centricities of fancy ; we can forgive something that may disgust where there is much to please ; but in that of narrative we expect an even flow , not turbid or impure .. The degree of ...
Side 6
... style so frigid as common - place ornaments . But after all , on this as on every practical subject of li- terature , I must have recourse to a maxim which I recommended very early in our corre- spondence . The attentive and studious pe ...
... style so frigid as common - place ornaments . But after all , on this as on every practical subject of li- terature , I must have recourse to a maxim which I recommended very early in our corre- spondence . The attentive and studious pe ...
Side 7
... style of Robertson , Hume , Gibbon , Goldsmith , * and Dr. Hawkesworth's Voyages ; for the lighter and more familiar kinds , the short narratives in the Spectator , especially those of Mr. Addison ; some of a si- milar nature in the ...
... style of Robertson , Hume , Gibbon , Goldsmith , * and Dr. Hawkesworth's Voyages ; for the lighter and more familiar kinds , the short narratives in the Spectator , especially those of Mr. Addison ; some of a si- milar nature in the ...
Side 17
... style of history should be grave , dignified , temperate and se- date . Purity is more essential than ornament , for reasons which I have already assigned ; yet the style should not be monotonous , but ani- mated , whenever the occasion ...
... style of history should be grave , dignified , temperate and se- date . Purity is more essential than ornament , for reasons which I have already assigned ; yet the style should not be monotonous , but ani- mated , whenever the occasion ...
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