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Studies in the Technique of Prose Style

Studies in the Technique of Prose Style

Long, Percy Waldron

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ISBN10: 1154860973
ISBN13: 9781154860979
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...can make it look luminous in others; nor can an uninterrupted succession of beauty produce the true effect of beauty; it must be foiled by inferiority before its own power can be developed. Nature has for the most part mingled her inferior and noble elements as she mingles sunshine with shade, giving due use and influence to both, and the painter who chooses to remove the shadow, perishes in the burning desert he has created. The truly high and beautiful art of Angelico 1 is continually refreshed and strengthened by his frank portraiture of the most ordinary features of his brother monks and of the recorded peculiarities of ungainly sanctity; but the modern German and Raphaclesque schools lose all honor and nobleness in barber-like admiration of handsome faces, and have, in fact, no real faith except in straight noses, and curled hair. Paul Veronese 2 opposes the dwarf to the soldier, and the negress to the queen; Shakespeare places Caliban beside Miranda, and Autolycus beside Perdita; but the vulgar idealist withdraws his beauty to the safety of the saloon, and his innocence to the seclusion of the cloister; he pretends that he does this in delicacy of choice and purity of 39. Allusive texture (III C), and reflex movement (IV A), the development carrying one back again and again to the topic sentence. sentiment, while in truth he has neither courage to front the monster, nor wit enough to furnish the knave. Rusk1n (40). 40. Emphasis by challenge (III B 2 c).--Take the instance of the painter or the sculptor; he has a conception in his mind which he wishes to represent in the medium of his art;--the Madonna and Child, or Innocence, or Fortitude, or some historical character or event. Do you mean to say he does not study his subject? does he not make sketche...

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