A Manual of English Prose Literature Biographical and Critical Designed Mainly to Show Characteristics of StyleBlackwood, 1872 - 634 pages |
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abstruse Addison admiration Æsop antithesis appearance Ben Jonson called Carlyle Carlyle's character Chartism Church Church of England clauses clear criticism death described diction doctrines effect ELEMENTS OF STYLE England English Essays Euphuism example expression favour favourite feelings figures figures of speech French French Revolution give Grasmere Henry VII History honour Hooker human humour imagination intellectual interest Jeremy Taylor Johnson King labour language Latin less literary literature living London Lord Macaulay Macaulay's manner matter means ment mind moral narrative nature never object opinion opium original Oxford paragraph particular passage pathos peculiar perhaps period person perspicuous pleasure poet poetry political popular prose published QUALITIES OF STYLE Quincey Quincey's quoted reader regards says sense sentence similitudes simplicity sometimes speech statement sublimity synecdoches Tatler tences things tion translation Whig Wicliffe words writers wrote