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 bas-relief beauty brevity called carry CAUSES OF FORCE Chap clauses climax coloured complex composition conceived conception conform conveyed copula DEPEND UPON ECONOMY differentiation elements emotion essay 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 means mental effort mental energy Metaphor mind Music nature organism Origin painting partly 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 reader's attention recognized remarked Rhetoric rhythmical Saxon Science sculpture seems sentence simile social Social Statics sound structure subordinate propositions substantive succession suggested syllables symbols tence theory thought tion traced truth utterances verse W. H. Hudson Westminster Review whole words metrically writing τε
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2 ページ - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
9 ページ - 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...
xvii ページ - 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.
22 ページ - As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, so 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. ... As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven; such is the noise of the battle.
14 ページ - At last, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather, we came, with no small difficulty, to our journey's end.
18 ページ - Listens strange tales of fearful dark decrees, 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.
14 ページ - We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather.
12 ページ - On the other side : which when the archfelon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd : and, in contempt, 180 At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey...
31 ページ - This generalization, with which we are all familiar in our bodily experiences, and which our daily language recognizes as true of the mind as a whole, is equally true of each mental power, from the simplest of the senses to the most complex of the sentiments. If we hold a flower to the nose for long, we become insensible to its scent. We say of a very brilliant flash of lightning that it blinds us; which means that our eyes have for a time lost their ability to appreciate light. After eating a quantity...
8 ページ - ... agony." Of course the principle equally applies when the predicate is a verb or a participle. And as effect is gained by placing first all words indicating the quality, conduct, or condition of the subject, it follows that the copula also should have precedence. It is true that the general habit of our language resists this arrangement of predicate, copula, and subject; but we may readily find instances of the additional force gained by conforming to it. Thus, in the line from " Julius Caesar...