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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... write marginal notes upon it , to insert a remark or illustration of my own ( not to be found in former Encyclopedias ) or to suggest a better definition than had been offered in the text . There are two sorts of writing . The first is ...
... write marginal notes upon it , to insert a remark or illustration of my own ( not to be found in former Encyclopedias ) or to suggest a better definition than had been offered in the text . There are two sorts of writing . The first is ...
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... write without affecta- tion is to write at random . On the contrary , there is nothing that requires more precision , and , if I may so say , purity of expression , than the style I am speaking of . It utterly rejects not only all ...
... write without affecta- tion is to write at random . On the contrary , there is nothing that requires more precision , and , if I may so say , purity of expression , than the style I am speaking of . It utterly rejects not only all ...
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... write about . Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence , or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts : but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task . Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style ...
... write about . Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence , or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts : but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task . Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style ...
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JEREMY BENTHAM | 4 |
THOMAS PAINE | 11 |
THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS | 20 |
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