Philosophy of Style: An EssayD. Appleton, 1872 - 55 páginas |
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abstract adjective advantage APPLETON application arrangement of predicate attention beautiful brevity brown horse called cating CAUSES OF FORCE clauses climax Cloth comparison complement complex composition condition conform conveyed copula crete deep roads DEPEND UPON ECONOMY duced elements embodied emotion entails Ephesians excitement fact faculties fatigue feeling figures of speech FORCE IN LANGUAGE forcible further gives greater habitually Hence HERBERT SPENCER history of literature HUXLEY ical idea implied indirect infer journey's end LANGUAGE WHICH DEPEND law of effect less LUBBOCK ment mental effort mental energy Metaphor mind MIVART natural Origin of Species partly peculiar philosophy phrase poet poetry predicate and subject present Price primitive Professor Huxley proportion prose qualifying quoted reader recipient's remarked result rhythmical scientific methods sentence similarly simile small difficulty soul species style subordinate propositions substantive suggested superiority syllables tences things equal THOMAS H thought tion truth utterance VIVID IMPRESSIONS writer
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Página 24 - As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold : Or as a thief, bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors...
Página 21 - 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.
Página 19 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Página 26 - We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads, and bad weather.
Página 11 - A reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power available. To recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him requires part of this power; to arrange and combine the images suggested...
Página 19 - And never a saint took pity on My soul in 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.
Página 17 - a horse black' be the arrangement, immediately on the utterance of the word 'horse' there arises, or tends to arise, in the mind, a picture answering to that word; and as there has been nothing to indicate what KIND of horse, any image of a horse suggests itself. Very likely, however, the image will be that of a brown horse; brown horses being the most familiar. The result is that when the word 'black' is added, a check is given to the process of thought. Either the picture of a brown horse already...
Página 9 - College in ****, — it was a matter of just wonder with my worthy tutor, and two or three fellows of that learned society, — that a man who knew not so much as the names of his tools, should be able to work after that fashion with them.
Página 32 - ... 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.
Página 32 - 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...