Helpful Hints on Writing and ReadingFunk & Wagnalls, 1911 - 158 pagine |
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Addison admired agreeable altho attention avoid brevity character Cicero clear COLERIDGE colors common composition concise criticism DAVID PRYDE degree Demosthenes diction elegant eloquence employed endeavor English language English style epithet excess expression faculty fancy fault favorite feel G. P. QUACKENBOS Gabriel Harvey genius GEORGE HENRY LEWES GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE give grace greater guage harmony hearers HENRY DAVID THOREAU HERBERT SPENCER human ideas imagination imitation intellectual Jeremy Taylor JOHN HENRY NEWMAN JONATHAN SWIFT kind language learned less man's manner meaning Milton mind nature ness never object obscure once orators ornament peculiar perspicuity phrases plain pleasure poets possess practise produced prose Quintilian reader redundancy refinement rule SAMUEL SMILES SCHOPENHAUER sense sentences sentiment Shakespeare simplicity sions speak speaker species speech sublime taste things thought tion TRENCH truth understood Vergil vigorous WHATELY whole writing
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Pagina 65 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Pagina 18 - Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
Pagina 93 - I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Pagina 65 - It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction ; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation ; yet if his language had been less idiomatical, it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism.
Pagina 64 - His religion has nothing in it enthusiastic or superstitious: he appears neither weakly credulous, nor wantonly sceptical; his morality is neither dangerously lax, nor impracticably rigid. All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest, the care of pleasing the Author of his being.
Pagina 68 - And how much of morality is in the kind of insight we get of anything; 'the eye seeing in all things what it brought with it the faculty of seeing!' To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. Raphael, the Painters tell us, is the best of all Portrait-painters withal.
Pagina 139 - When a man's thoughts are clear, the properest words will generally offer themselves first, and his own judgment will direct him in what order to place them, so as they may be best understood.
Pagina 128 - ... the secrets of the heart are brought to light, pain of soul is relieved, hidden grief is carried off, sympathy conveyed, counsel imparted, experience recorded, and wisdom perpetuated— if by great authors the many are drawn up into unity, national character is fixed, a people speaks, the past and the future, the East and the West are brought into communication with each other— if such men are, in a word, the spokesmen and prophets of the human family, it will not answer to make light of literature...
Pagina 127 - He expresses what all feel, but all cannot say; and his sayings pass into proverbs among his people, and his phrases become household words and idioms of their daily speech, which is tessellated with the rich fragments of his language, as we see in foreign lands the marbles of Roman grandeur worked into the walls and pavements of modern palaces.
Pagina 68 - ... speaks itself in these things. For though this of painting is one of the outermost developments of a man, it comes like all else from the essential faculty of him; it is physiognomical of the whole man. Find a man whose words paint you a likeness, you have found a man worth something; mark his manner of doing it, as very characteristic of him. In the first place, he could not have discerned the object at all, or seen the vital type of it, unless he had, what we may call, sympathised with it —...