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 106
... less and less , till their old age , instead of a crown of their virtue and perseverance , ends in levity and unprofitable courses , light and useless as the tufted feathers upon the cane : every wind can play with it and abuse it , but ...
... less and less , till their old age , instead of a crown of their virtue and perseverance , ends in levity and unprofitable courses , light and useless as the tufted feathers upon the cane : every wind can play with it and abuse it , but ...
Pagina 107
... less than this person could not do it . Nothing less than an infinite excellence could satisfy for a soul lost to infinite ages , who was to bear the load of an infinite anger from the provocation of an eternal God . And yet , if it be ...
... less than this person could not do it . Nothing less than an infinite excellence could satisfy for a soul lost to infinite ages , who was to bear the load of an infinite anger from the provocation of an eternal God . And yet , if it be ...
Pagina 219
... less elaborate , but also for cultivating such a diction by study and deliberate preference . Having such great models of contrasting style to begin with , having the attention con- verged upon these differences by the furious merriment ...
... less elaborate , but also for cultivating such a diction by study and deliberate preference . Having such great models of contrasting style to begin with , having the attention con- verged upon these differences by the furious merriment ...
Inhoudsopgave
INTRODUCTION by Frederick Burwick | xi |
Rhetoric | 81 |
Style | 134 |
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