Philosophy of Style: an EssayD. Appleton, 1876 - 55 páginas |
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551 Broadway abstract adjective advantage APPLETON application arrangement of predicate attention beautiful brevity brown horse called cating CAUSES OF FORCE clauses climax comparison complement complex composition condition conform conveyed copula crete deep roads DEPEND UPON ECONOMY duced emotion entails Ephesians excitement fact faculties fatigue feeling figures of speech FORCE IN LANGUAGE forcible further greater habitually HARVARD COLLEGE Hence HERBERT SPENCER history of literature ical idea implied indirect infer INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SERIES journey's end LANGUAGE WHICH DEPEND law of effect less MARCH 15 ment mental effort mental energy Metaphor mind nature partly peculiar PHILOSOPHY OF STYLE phrase poet poetry predicate and subject present Price Prof Professor prose qualifying quoted recipient's result rhythmical Science sentence similarly simile small difficulty specific subordinate propositions substantive suggested superiority syllables tences theory things equal thought tion true University University of Berlin University of Erlangen 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 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 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 weathertossed 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 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 20 - The border slogan rent the sky ! A Home ! a Gordon ! was the cry : Loud were the clanging blows ; Advanced, — forced back, — now low, now high, The pennon sunk and rose ; As bends the bark's mast in the gale, When rent are rigging, shrouds, and sail, It wavered 'mid the foes.
Página 34 - As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, towards each other approached the heroes. As two dark streams from high rocks meet and mix, and roar on the plain; loud, rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin and Inisfail.
Página 32 - Methought among the lawns together We wandered, underneath the young gray dawn, And multitudes of dense white fleecy clouds Were wandering in thick flocks along the mountains Shepherded by the slow, unwilling wind...
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.