The Art of ExpositionF. S. Crofts & Company, 1931 - 476 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 45
... figure must at least seem to rise spontaneously , and it can be used with effect only by a mind of considerable imaginative intensity . In the passage just quoted the in- tensity gathers with the successive phrases until it actually ...
... figure must at least seem to rise spontaneously , and it can be used with effect only by a mind of considerable imaginative intensity . In the passage just quoted the in- tensity gathers with the successive phrases until it actually ...
الصفحة 47
... figures are so impressive that they are easily remembered . They become everybody's property , and by constant use they lose the power of stirring the imagination . A figure is commonplace , not when it deals with ordinary material ...
... figures are so impressive that they are easily remembered . They become everybody's property , and by constant use they lose the power of stirring the imagination . A figure is commonplace , not when it deals with ordinary material ...
الصفحة 48
... figures . First , although a good figure adds greatly to the interest of a piece of writing , a weak or ordinary figure is very much inferior to plain literal expression . The latter has the virtue of directness ; if the figure has not ...
... figures . First , although a good figure adds greatly to the interest of a piece of writing , a weak or ordinary figure is very much inferior to plain literal expression . The latter has the virtue of directness ; if the figure has not ...
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