 ... it, — now putting it directly before the eye, now obliquely, now in an abstract shape, now in the concrete ; all which being the ,'proper technical discipline for dealing with such cases, ought no longer to be viewed as a licentious mode of style,...  Historical and Critical Essays - Page 69by Thomas De Quincey - 1853Full view - About this book
 | England - 1840 - 876 pages
...ought no longer to be viewed as a licentious mode of style, but as the just style in respect of those licentious circumstances. And the true art for such...appearing to say something new, when in reality you aro but echoing yourself; to break up massy chords into running variations ; and to mask, by slight... | |
 | Scotland - 1840 - 1522 pages
...ought no longer to be viewed as a licentious mode of style, but as the just style in respect of those licentious circumstances. And the true art for such...illustrating a twofold neutralizing effect applied to the ;,,!vantages, otherwise enjoyed by the English people, for appreciating the forms of style. What was... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 374 pages
...ought no longer to be viewed as a licentious mode of style, but as the just style in respect of those licentious circumstances. And the true art for such...have been illustrating a twofold neutralizing effect spplied to the advantages, otherwise enjoyed by the English ]>eople, for appreciating the forms of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 378 pages
...ought no longer to be viewed as a licoitious mode of style, but as the just style in respect of those licentious circumstances. And the true art for such popular display is to contrive the beat forms for appearing to say something new, when in reality you are but echoing yourself; to break... | |
 | Preaching - 1873 - 784 pages
...a truth, and to appropriate its bearings." The true art in popular eloquence, this authority rules, is to contrive the best forms for appearing to say...in the manner, a virtual identity in the substance. Jeffrey's biographer says of him, that, revelling in the exuberance of his powers, he sometimes put... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 596 pages
...ought no longer to be viewed as a licentious mode of style, but as the just style in respect of those licentious circumstances. And the true art for such...appearing to say something new, when in reality you are hut echoing yourself; to break up massy chords into running variations ; and to mask, by slight differences... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 584 pages
...respect of those licentious circumstances. And the true art for such popular display is — to continue the best forms for appearing to say something new,...echoing yourself; to break up massy chords into running vibrations, and to mask by slight differences in the manner a verbal identity in the substance." The... | |
 | William Mathews - Orators - 1878 - 464 pages
...when he is really but echoing himself, — who can break up massy chords into running variations, and mask, by slight differences in the manner, a virtual identity in the substance. It was well said by Demosthenes that the power of oratory is as much in the ear as in the tongue. Fox... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1880 - 288 pages
...and now in the concrete." Men whose style has been formed by public speaking are given to masking, " by slight differences in the manner, a virtual identity in the substance." A single statement of a fact or truth does not always put the audience in full possession of it ; and... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1885 - 364 pages
...ought no longer to be viewed as a licentious mode of style, but as the just style in respect of those licentious circumstances. And the true art for such popular display is to continue the best forms for appearing to say something new, when in reality you are but echoing yourself;... | |
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