The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a General Treatise on Composition and Style: Instruction in English Composition, with Exercises for Paraphrasing; and an Elaborate Letter-writer's Vademecum, in which are Numerous Rules and Suggestions Relating to the Epistolary Art, Volumes 1-3 |
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Page vii
... reader . These divisions em- brace the following topics : I. Composition and Style , with an Introduction on Authorship , followed by remarks on Purity of Style , with illustrative examples ; Propriety of Style ; Preci- sion of Style ...
... reader . These divisions em- brace the following topics : I. Composition and Style , with an Introduction on Authorship , followed by remarks on Purity of Style , with illustrative examples ; Propriety of Style ; Preci- sion of Style ...
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... attentive perusal of this volume will add much to the facility with which the art of cor- rect and elegant composition can be acquired by the reader of its pages . PART I. COMPOSITION AND STYLE . CONTENTS OF PART 1 8 Advertisement .
... attentive perusal of this volume will add much to the facility with which the art of cor- rect and elegant composition can be acquired by the reader of its pages . PART I. COMPOSITION AND STYLE . CONTENTS OF PART 1 8 Advertisement .
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... readers and an improvement in the tone and standard of popular literature , which plainly prove that year by ... reader has now been brought to such perfection that we find every class provided with mental food convenient for its ...
... readers and an improvement in the tone and standard of popular literature , which plainly prove that year by ... reader has now been brought to such perfection that we find every class provided with mental food convenient for its ...
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... Readers are more critical as well as more numerous , and the demand for good writing is so great that no one who can supply it need fear failure . But authors , unlike the proverbial critics , are not " ready - made , " and if they do ...
... Readers are more critical as well as more numerous , and the demand for good writing is so great that no one who can supply it need fear failure . But authors , unlike the proverbial critics , are not " ready - made , " and if they do ...
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... reader can take delight . Crabbe tells us of how in the elder days of heavy literature- " Our patient fathers trifling themes laid by , And rolled o'er laboured works the attentive eye : Page after page the much enduring men Explored ...
... reader can take delight . Crabbe tells us of how in the elder days of heavy literature- " Our patient fathers trifling themes laid by , And rolled o'er laboured works the attentive eye : Page after page the much enduring men Explored ...
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