Studies in Literature and StyleA. C. Armstrong & Son, 1890 - 297 sider |
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Side 112
... masters of style . Especially in the rich department of En- glish prose , not a few authors , in England and at home , are engaged , at present , in friendly rivalry to maintain the character of the trust bequeathed to them . A partial ...
... masters of style . Especially in the rich department of En- glish prose , not a few authors , in England and at home , are engaged , at present , in friendly rivalry to maintain the character of the trust bequeathed to them . A partial ...
Side 128
... masters of literature for a century and a half after the Restoration ! Fortunately for our national honor , the list opens with the name of Spencer and closes with that of Tennyson . Critics apart , however , criticism itself as a ...
... masters of literature for a century and a half after the Restoration ! Fortunately for our national honor , the list opens with the name of Spencer and closes with that of Tennyson . Critics apart , however , criticism itself as a ...
Side 152
... master- pieces and , here and there , in the domain of lyric , as in Schiller and Burns . Hence , we must affirm that , while poetry is possessed of an intellectual quality and has an influence on prose along mental lines , such a ...
... master- pieces and , here and there , in the domain of lyric , as in Schiller and Burns . Hence , we must affirm that , while poetry is possessed of an intellectual quality and has an influence on prose along mental lines , such a ...
Side 185
... master , may be made the agent of literary compliment or criticism . 4. Social . This fourth and final form of satire may be said to be the most characteristic and most abundant , found in all literatures and often combin- ing , in one ...
... master , may be made the agent of literary compliment or criticism . 4. Social . This fourth and final form of satire may be said to be the most characteristic and most abundant , found in all literatures and often combin- ing , in one ...
Side 192
... Master More , what think you to be the cause of these shelves and flats that stop up Sandwich haven ? Forsooth , sir , quoth he , I am an old man . I think that Tenterton steeple is the cause of Good- win Sands . Before that Tenterton ...
... Master More , what think you to be the cause of these shelves and flats that stop up Sandwich haven ? Forsooth , sir , quoth he , I am an old man . I think that Tenterton steeple is the cause of Good- win Sands . Before that Tenterton ...
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Addison Æschylus æsthetic American Arnold artistic authorship Bacon beauty Ben Jonson called Carlyle character Charles Lamb Charlotte Brontë Christopher North conspicuous culture discussion distinct Doctor Johnson effect element elements of style Emerson emotive England English style especially essays essential ethical evinced expression fact feeling fiction genius George Eliot Göethe heart Holmes human humor influence insists instinct intel intellectual judgment knowledge language literary art literary criticism literary history literature and style logical Lowell Macaulay Matthew Arnold ment mental method Micawber Milton mind modern Molière moral nature order of style passion Petrarch philosophic poet poetic poetry Pope popular style present prose writer province Quincey reader satire scholarly seen sense Shakespeare sion soul speak sphere spirit Stedman student taste tendency thing thought tion true truth types of style utter verse Victor Hugo word Wordsworth
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Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 231 - Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.