Philosophy of Style: An EssayD. Appleton and Company, 1875 - 55 páginas |
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551 Broadway abstract adjective advantage APPLETON application arrangement of predicate attention beautiful brevity brown horse called carry cating CAUSES OF FORCE clauses climax Cloth comparison complement composition condition conform conveyed copula crete deep roads DEPEND UPON ECONOMY duced emotion entails Ephesians excitement F. R. S. I vol fact faculties fatigue feeling figures of speech FORCE IN LANGUAGE forcible further gives greater habitually Hence HERBERT SPENCER history of literature ical Ice Age idea Illustrations implied indirect infer JAMES GEIKIE JOHN TYNDALL journey's end LANGUAGE WHICH DEPEND law of effect less ment mental effort mental energy Metaphor mind nature partly peculiar period philosophy phrase physiology poet poetry POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY predicate and subject present Price Prof prose qualifying R. A. PROCTOR reader recipient's remarked rhythmical scientific sentence simile small difficulty style subordinate propositions substantive suggested superiority syllables tences things equal thought tion utterance VIVID IMPRESSIONS writer
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Página 24 - In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold: Or as a thief bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors...
Página 21 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Página 19 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Página 11 - On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims, we may see shadowed forth in many of them, the importance of economizing the reader's or hearer's attention. To so present ideas that they may be apprehended with the least possible mental effort, is the desideratum towards which most of the rules above quoted point.
Página 33 - ... trough of the sea ; but from what port did we sail ? Who knows ? Or to what port are we bound ? Who knows ? There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves, whom we speak as we pass, or who have hoisted some signal, or floated to us some letter in a bottle from far.
Página 30 - Mutter'd to wretch by necromantic spell ; Or of those hags who at the witching time Of murky midnight, ride the air sublime, And mingle foul embrace with fiends of hell ; Cold horror drinks its blood ! Anon the tear More gentle starts, to hear the beldame tell Of pretty babes, that lov'd each other dear, Murder'd by cruel uncle's mandate fell : Ev'n such the shiv'ring joys thy tones impart, Ev'n so, thou, Siddons, meltest my sad heart.
Página 16 - Is referred to, we represent it to ourselves by calling to mind individual members of it, it follows that when an abstract word is used, the hearer or reader has to choose from his stock of images, one or more, by which he may figure to himself the genus mentioned. In doing this, some delay must arise, some force be expended; and if, by employing a specific term, an appropriate image can be at once suggested, an economy is achieved, and a more vivid impression produced.