Prose of the Romantic PeriodCarl Woodring Houghton Mifflin, 1961 - 600 pages Prose excerpts from the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Savage Landor, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas de Quincey, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and others. |
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Page 131
... speak the language of nature ? where does he not put into the mouths of his dramatis personæ , be they high or low , Kings or Constables , precisely what they must have said ? Where , from observation , could he learn the language ...
... speak the language of nature ? where does he not put into the mouths of his dramatis personæ , be they high or low , Kings or Constables , precisely what they must have said ? Where , from observation , could he learn the language ...
Page 313
... speaking of . It utterly rejects not only all unmean- ing pomp , but all low , cant phrases , and loose , unconnected , slipshod allusions . It is not to take the first word that offers , but ... speak On Familiar Style 313 On Familiar Style.
... speaking of . It utterly rejects not only all unmean- ing pomp , but all low , cant phrases , and loose , unconnected , slipshod allusions . It is not to take the first word that offers , but ... speak On Familiar Style 313 On Familiar Style.
Page 314
... speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task . Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style , to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express : it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it ...
... speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task . Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style , to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express : it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it ...
Contents
JEREMY BENTHAM | 4 |
THOMAS PAINE | 11 |
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS | 20 |
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