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. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... with propriety and grace; 2. To improve and polish his style for prose composition." And, further on, he adds; "Indeed, every person, whether poet or not, who has received any tolerable education, and pretends to write decent prose, ought likewise to be qualified for the occasional production of a few verses, ...
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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. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... with propriety and grace; 2. To improve and polish his style for prose composition." And, further on, he adds; "Indeed, every person, whether poet or not, who has received any tolerable education, and pretends to write decent prose, ought likewise to be qualified for the occasional production of a few verses, smooth, at least, and metrically correct, whatever may be their merit or demerit in other respects. That the practice of versi fication materially improves the style for prose composition, there cannot be a doubt. The ear which is acutely sensible to the harmonies of verse, will naturally revolt against inharmonious harshness in prose; and the pains bestowed in searchmg for a variety of words of different lengths, quantities, and terminations, to suit the exigencies of the metre, --'the shifts and turns, Th' expedients and inventions multiform, To which the mind resorts in chase of terms, T' arrest the fleeting images, that fill The mirror of the mind.' will copiously enlarge the writer's stock of expressions, --will enable him to array his thoughts in a more elegant and attractive garb, and to van that garb at pleasure, by the ready aid of a diversified phraseology. It will at the same time, produce a more important and beautiful effect, --it will enrich the intellectual store of thought; for, while in search for an epithet, for an example, or a periphrase, he is obliged to view the subject in all its possible bearmgs and relations, that he may choose such particular word or phrase, as shall exhibit it in the most advantageous light. And what study more effectual to call into action the powers of the mind, to exercise the;udgment, to whet the sagacity, and give birth to a variety of ideas, which might otherwise have lain for ever...
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