 | 1844 - 784 pàgines
...with the quality of the thoughts ; and then read on for amusement, or cease to read from disgust. ' A principal device in the fabrication of this style...is to multiply epithets, dry epithets, laid on the surface, and into which no vitality of the sentiment is found to circulate. You may take a number of... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pàgines
...most important subjects in danger of something worse than failing to interest. The unpleasing effect it has on your own mind, will lead you to apprehend...is to multiply epithets, dry epithets, laid on the surface, and into which no vitality of the sentiment is found to circulate. You may take a number of... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1833 - 376 pàgines
...because " warm," " glowing," * "A principal device in the fabrication of this Style," (the mockeloquent,) "is to multiply epithets, — dry epithets, laid on...vitality of the sentiment is found to circulate. You may tak'ea great number of the words out of each page, and find that the sense is neither more nor less... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pàgines
...most important subjects in danger of something worse than failing to interest. The unpleasing effect it has on your own mind, will lead you to apprehend...is to multiply epithets, dry epithets, laid on the surface, and into which no vitality of the sentiment is found to circulate. You may take a number of... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1844 - 766 pàgines
...with the quality of the thoughts ; and then read on for amusement, or cease to read from disgust. " A principal device in the fabrication of this style...is to multiply epithets, dry epithets, laid on the surface, and into which no vitality of the sentiment is found to circulate. You may take a number of... | |
 | George Combe - 1845 - 498 pàgines
...interest. The unpleasing effect which it has on your own mind will lead to apprehend its having a>very inf «nd into which none of the vitality of the sentiment is found to circulate. You may take a great number... | |
 | John Foster - 1846 - 370 pàgines
...most important subjects in danger of something worse than failing to interest. The unpleasing effect it has on your own mind will lead you to apprehend...is, to multiply epithets, dry epithets, laid on the surface, and into which no vitality of the sentiment is found to circulate. You may take a number of... | |
 | 1846 - 860 pàgines
...traces of the same vicious manner of writing. In the poets it came to its perfection in the compound epithets, ' dry epithets laid on the outside, and into which none of the vitality of the sentiment was permitted to circulate;' in the forced personification and ostentatious impotence of Darwin, Hayley,... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1852 - 372 pàgines
...because " warm," " glowing," * "A principal device in the fabrication of this Style," (the mockeloquent,) "is to multiply epithets, — dry epithets, laid on...the sentiment is found to circulate. You may take i great number of the words out of each page, and find that the se. se is neither more nor less for... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 824 pàgines
...produce satiety and disgust. — КАМЕЯ. A principal device in the fabrication of the mock-eloquent style is to multiply epithets — dry epithets, laid...the vitality of the sentiment is found to circulate. Yon may take a great number of the words out of each page, and find that the sense is neither more... | |
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A principal device in the fabrication of this style is to multiply epithets, dry epithets, laid on the surface, and into which no vitality of the sentiment is found to circulate. You may take a number of the words out of each page, and find that the sense... 
