The Philosophy of Style: Together with an Essay on StyleAllyn and Bacon, 1892 - 72 ページ |
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abstract adjective application 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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8 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.
15 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 grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
56 ページ - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
3 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.
20 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.
24 ページ - Inverting these couplets will be found to diminish the effect considerably. There are cases, however, even where the simile is a simple one, in which it may with advantage be 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.
14 ページ - 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 " — " Then burst his mighty heart," priority is given to a word embodying both predicate and copula....
14 ページ - 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.
15 ページ - Whatever it may be in theory, it is clear that in practice the French idea of liberty is — the right of every man to be master of the rest. In this case, were the first two clauses, up to the word "practice" inclusive, which qualify the subject, to be placed at the end instead of the beginning, much of the force would be lost; as thus: The French idea of liberty is — the right of every man to be master of the rest, in practice...
27 ページ - Here we drift, like white sail across the wild ocean, now bright on the wave, now darkling in the 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 afar.