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  • Titel: Reflections upon accuracy of style : Containing the chief rules to be observ'd for obtaining an accurate style Of the too frequent Use of Antitheses. Of the Use of Metaphors. Of Affectation in Style. Of Flashy Styles. Of the Use of Foreign Words. Of the Laconick Style. Of the Long Style. Of Novelty of Style. Of Poetical Expressions used in Prose. Of the Use of Obsolete Words. Rapin's Rules of Style. Of Obscurity in Writing. On Harmony of Sound. French Writers not a Rule in other Languages. Vogue not always a sure Proof of a good Writer. Of the Beauties and Blemishes in the Style of the late famous Mr. Collier. Of that Gentleman's Oddness of Expression, Metaphors, &c. With brief observations interspers'd thro' the whole, on Denham, Dodwell, Dryden, Cowley, Balzac, Boileau, Bouhours, Tesauro, Tasso, Voiture, M. du Port Royal, De St. Evremont, Quintilian, Lucan, Virgil, &c. And many other Curious Particulars referr'd to in the Index. By Mr. John Constable
  • Beteiligte: Constable, John [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: London: printed for J. Osborn, at the Golden Ball, in Pater-Noster Row, M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]
    Online-Ausg., Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Umfang: Online-Ressource (xvi,246,[2]p); 8°
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: Style, Literary
  • Reproduktionsreihe: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Art der Reproduktion: Online-Ausg.
  • Hersteller der Reproduktion: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduktionsnotiz: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
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  • Anmerkungen: Alston, VI, 162
    English Short Title Catalog, T96744
    Recto of A2 is numbered 3
    Reproduction of original from British Library
    The final leaf contains advertisements for Henry Lintot
    The ornaments are those used by Henry Woodfall