The Philosophy of Style: Together with an Essay on StyleAllyn and Bacon, 1892 - 72 ページ |
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abstract adjective applied arrangement Assyria attention bas-relief beauty brevity called carry CAUSES OF FORCE Chap choice climax coloured complex composition conceived conception condition conform conveyed copula DEPEND UPON ECONOMY differentiation distinct elements emotion English Ethics evolution fact faculties figures of speech forcible further greater habitually hearer Hence Herbert Spencer horse idea implied impression known words law of effect less literary mental effort mental energy Metaphor mind modes of expression Music nature organism Origin painting partly passage perception perfect writer personality Philosophy of Style phrase poet poetry poor in speech predicate present Principle of Economy Principles of Psychology produced prose qualifying reader recognized result Rhetoric rhythmical Saxon Science sculpture sentence simile social Social Statics sound Spencer structure subordinate propositions substantive succession suggested syllables symbols tence theory thought tion traced truth utterances verse Westminster Review whole words metrically writing τε
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3 ページ - the images suggested requires a further part ; and only that part which remains can be used for realizing the thought conveyed. Hence, the more time and attention it takes to receive and understand each sentence, the less time and attention can be given to the contained idea ; and the less vividly will that
14 ページ - 1 notices the fact that this order is preferable ; though without giving the reason. He says : — " When a circumstance is placed at the beginning of the period, or near the beginning, the transition from it to the principal subject is agreeable : it is like ascending or going upward." A sentence arranged in illustration of this
5 ページ - forcibleness of Saxon English, or rather non-Latin English, first claims our attention. The several special reasons assignable for this may all be reduced to the general reason — economy. The most ^important of them is early association. A child's vocabulary is almost wholly Saxon. He says, / have, not I possess — I wish, not
xv ページ - evolution of Languages regarded as a psychological progress determined by social conditions"; Part VIII., Intellectual Progress, "treated from the same point of view: including the growth of classifications; the evolution of science out of common knowledge ; the advance from qualitative to quantitative prevision, from the indefinite to the definite, and from the concrete to the abstract";
29 ページ - of the thought to be conveyed, this skilful selection of a few particulars which imply the rest, is the key to success. In the choice of component ideas, as in the choice of expressions, the aim must be to convey the greatest quantity of thoughts with the smallest quantity of words.
10 ページ - 12. We cannot more simply do this than by considering the proper collocation of the substantive and adjective. Is it better to place the adjective before the substantive, or the substantive before the adjective ? Ought we to say with the French — un cheval noir;
32 ページ - natural utterances of excitement. While the matter embodied is idealized emotion, the vehicle is the idealized language of emotion. As the musical composer catches the cadences in which our feelings of joy and sympathy, grief and despair, vent themselves, and out of these germs evolves
11 ページ - I cannot see it in my mind's eye at all; and so cannot tell whether I should have to run my eye along it, if I did see it.' " — James's ' Psychology, ' II., p. 57, note. The whole chapter should be read. 2 See, for a discussion of this point, Victor Egger's
23 ページ - Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum." placed last, as in these lines from Alexander Smith's ' Life Drama ' : " I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
5 ページ - The synonyms which he learns in after years, never become so closely, so organically connected with the ideas signified, as do these original words used in childhood ; , and hence the association remains less strong. But in what