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Page 185
... Elegance is only the bloom of Clearness and Energy . It cannot be added to lan- guage ; it is intrinsic and organic , and consists in what- ever awakens the sense of language freedom . CONDITIONS FOR SECURING THE QUALITIES . Conditions ...
... Elegance is only the bloom of Clearness and Energy . It cannot be added to lan- guage ; it is intrinsic and organic , and consists in what- ever awakens the sense of language freedom . CONDITIONS FOR SECURING THE QUALITIES . Conditions ...
Page 193
... Elegance . Obscure thought cannot be presented with force ; and without a certain degree of Elegance , the mind will not readily receive the truth presented . But when Elegance rises to esthetic ends , Energy is sacrificed . Much ...
... Elegance . Obscure thought cannot be presented with force ; and without a certain degree of Elegance , the mind will not readily receive the truth presented . But when Elegance rises to esthetic ends , Energy is sacrificed . Much ...
Page 194
... Elegance is conditioned by richness and delicacy of feeling and beauty of conception . Rules of Elegance will avail little with a coarse and uncultivated writer . Longfellow is distinctively artistic in discourse , because , to a ...
... Elegance is conditioned by richness and delicacy of feeling and beauty of conception . Rules of Elegance will avail little with a coarse and uncultivated writer . Longfellow is distinctively artistic in discourse , because , to a ...
Page 197
... elegance ; and frequently of all at once . Second , but language would not be language without expressing thought . And first it bears a direct rela- tion to thought , which relation is twofold . There THE LANGUAGE IN DISCOURSE . 197.
... elegance ; and frequently of all at once . Second , but language would not be language without expressing thought . And first it bears a direct rela- tion to thought , which relation is twofold . There THE LANGUAGE IN DISCOURSE . 197.
Page 201
... elegance are secured through such brevity . As in words and sentences , so in discourse taken as a whole ; the shorter in proportion to the content the greater is the economy of sense - perception . The com- poser's problem is to ...
... elegance are secured through such brevity . As in words and sentences , so in discourse taken as a whole ; the shorter in proportion to the content the greater is the economy of sense - perception . The com- poser's problem is to ...
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