The Philosophy of Style: Together with an Essay on StyleAllyn and Bacon, 1892 - 72 Seiten |
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abstract adjective applied arrangement Assyria attention bas-relief beauty 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 Psychology 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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Seite 8 - 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.
Seite 15 - 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.
Seite 56 - 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...
Seite 3 - 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.
Seite 24 - 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.
Seite 15 - 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...
Seite 27 - 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.
Seite 3 - Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced. In either case, whatever force is absorbed by the machine is deducted from the result.
Seite 2 - No general theory of expression seems yet to have been enunciated. The maxims contained in works on composition and rhetoric, are presented in an unorganized form. Standing as isolated dogmas; — as empirical generalizations, they are neither so clearly apprehended, nor so much respected, as they would be were they deduced from some simple first principle. We are told that
Seite 5 - The further superiority possessed by Saxon English in its comparative brevity, obviously comes under the same generalization. If it be an advantage to express an idea in the smallest number of words, then will it be an advantage to express it in the smallest number of syllables.