Selected Essays on RhetoricSouthern Illinois University Press, 1967 - 352 pagina's The five essays presented here—Rhetoric, Style, Language, Conversation, and Greek Literature—were published together for the first time in The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey in 1889–1890. Frederick Burwick brings the essays together again in this volume, introducing them by tracing the sources and development of a belletristic theory of rhetoric, which he says “is one of the most original, and for a few critics, the most puzzling of the nineteenth century.” Burwick makes the edition complete with a comprehensive index and a selected bibliography. |
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Pagina 147
... equally clear of popular vulgarities ; indeed , from another cause , that could not have been avoided : for it is remarkable that a connexion , as close as through an umbilical cord , has always been main- tained between the very ...
... equally clear of popular vulgarities ; indeed , from another cause , that could not have been avoided : for it is remarkable that a connexion , as close as through an umbilical cord , has always been main- tained between the very ...
Pagina 203
... equally original . In all such cases understand , ye miserable snarlers at contemporary merit , that the puerile goût de comparaison ( as La Bruyère calls it ) is out of place ; universally you cannot affirm any imparity where the ...
... equally original . In all such cases understand , ye miserable snarlers at contemporary merit , that the puerile goût de comparaison ( as La Bruyère calls it ) is out of place ; universally you cannot affirm any imparity where the ...
Pagina 261
... equally important considered as a tool for the culture and populariza- tion of truth and also ( if it had no use at all in that way ) as a mode per se of the beautiful and a fountain of intellectual pleasure . The vice of that ...
... equally important considered as a tool for the culture and populariza- tion of truth and also ( if it had no use at all in that way ) as a mode per se of the beautiful and a fountain of intellectual pleasure . The vice of that ...
Inhoudsopgave
INTRODUCTION by Frederick Burwick | xi |
Rhetoric | 81 |
Style | 134 |
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