دانلود کتاب Senior Course of English Composition, Vol. 1 of 2

Main Characteristics of good Composition. A good style, as the late Fitzgerald Hall defines it in one of his posthumous letters, consists in saying in the most perspicuous and succinct way what one thoroughly understands, and saying it so naturally that no effort is apparent This extract mentions three of the qualities of good composition, viz. (1) Perspicuity, or saying in the most perspicuous war what one thoroughly understands ;(2) Brevity, or saying it in the most succinct way ;(3) Simplicity, or saying it so naturally that no effort is apparent A nother writer, Mr. Leslie Stephen, in the course of a criticism on the writing? of Ruskin, has expressed himself as follows: The cardinal virtue of a good style is that every sentence should be alive to its fingers ends. There should be no cumbrous verbiage ;no barren commonplace to fill the interstices of thought ;and no mannerism simulating emotion by fictitious emphasis. Ruskin has that virtue in the highest degree (X ational Revieir). Here a new quality is introduced I mpressiveness, Energy or Vivacity, the sentence should be alive to its fingers ends. What follows has reference to brevity and naturalness or simplicity, and these have been mentioned already in the previous quotation. An older writer, Blair (born in 1718), has expressed himself as follows on the same subject: All the qualities of a good style may be ranged under two heads Perspicuity and Ornament. For all that can possibly be required of language is to convey our ideas clearly to the minds of others, and at the same time in such a dress as by pleasing and interesting them shall must effectually strengthen the impressions which we seek to make. When both these ends are answered, we certainly accomH.C.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics