The Philosophy of Style: Together with an Essay on StyleAllyn and Bacon, 1892 - Всего страниц: 72 |
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The Philosophy of Style: Together with an Essay on Style Herbert Spencer,T. H. Wright Полный просмотр - 1892 |
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abstract adjective application arrangement Assyria attention bas-relief beauty brevity called carry CAUSES OF FORCE Chap climax coloured complex composition conceived conception conveyed copula differentiation elements emotion English essay Ethics evolution fact faculties figures of speech forcible further greater habitually hearer Hence Herbert Spencer horse idea implied impression J. V. DENNEY known words law of effect less mental effort mental energy Metaphor mind Music nature Ohio State University organism original painting paragraph perception perfect writer personality Philosophy of Style phrase poet poetry predicate present Principle of Economy produced Professor F. N. SCOTT prose Psychology qualifying reader recognized rhetoric rhythmical Saxon Science sculpture sentence simile social sound Spencer subordinate propositions substantive succession suggested syllables symbols tence theory thought tion traced truth University of Michigan utterances verse W. H. Hudson Westminster Review whole words metrically writing τε
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Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 28 - As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, towards each other approached the heroes. As two dark streams from high rocks meet and mix, and roar on the plain; loud, rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin and Inisfail.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 20 - At last, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather, we came, with no small difficulty, to our journey's end.
Стр. 17 - On th' other side : which when th' arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd, and in contempt At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at...
Стр. 1 - 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 3 - 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...
Стр. 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.