Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Nonesuch Press, 1948 - 807 pagina's |
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Pagina 482
... PROSE STYLE OF POETS ( WRITTEN IN AUG . , 1822 ) " Do you read or sing ? If you sing , you sing very ill . ” I HAVE but an indifferent opinion of the prose - style of poets : not that it is not sometimes good , nay , excellent ; but it ...
... PROSE STYLE OF POETS ( WRITTEN IN AUG . , 1822 ) " Do you read or sing ? If you sing , you sing very ill . ” I HAVE but an indifferent opinion of the prose - style of poets : not that it is not sometimes good , nay , excellent ; but it ...
Pagina 487
... prose . Consequently , a poet will be at a loss , and flounder about for the common or ( as we understand it ) natural order of words in prose composi- tion . Dr. Johnson endeavoured to give an air of dignity and novelty to his diction ...
... prose . Consequently , a poet will be at a loss , and flounder about for the common or ( as we understand it ) natural order of words in prose composi- tion . Dr. Johnson endeavoured to give an air of dignity and novelty to his diction ...
Pagina 499
... prose - writer is there ; the tone of lively , sensible conversation ; and this may in part arise from the author's being himself an animated talker . Mr. Hunt wants something of the heat and earnestness of the political partisan ; but ...
... prose - writer is there ; the tone of lively , sensible conversation ; and this may in part arise from the author's being himself an animated talker . Mr. Hunt wants something of the heat and earnestness of the political partisan ; but ...
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On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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