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Essays on poetical and prosaic numbers, and elocution. The second edition. By John Mason, A.M.
Mason, John, 1706-1763.Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]- Books
The complete plain words / by Sir Ernest Gowers ; revised edition by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut.
Gowers, Ernest, 1880-1966.Date: 1987- Books
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Reflections upon accuracy of style. In five dialogues. Containing the chief rules to be observed 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 interspersed thro' the whole, on Aristotle, Longinus, Quintilian, Cicero, Tacitus, Tasso, Boileau, Bouhours, Rapin, Voiture, Milton, Cowley, Sprat, Denham, Dryden, &c. And many other Curious Particulars referred to in the Index. By Mr. John Constable, Author of the Conversation of Gentlemen, &c.
Constable, John, 1676-1743.Date: M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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The lady's polite secretary, or new female letter writer. Containing an elegant variety of interesting and instructive letters, intended as Models to form the Style on every Point essential to the Happiness or Entertainment of the Sex. In which are comprised many admired Epistolary Narratives, an Article hitherto unattempted in every Book of the Kind. Likewise several Original Letters of Wit and Sentiment, by Ladies of the first Rank in the Literary World. To which are added, instances, to serve as beacons to the inexperienced, of that flimsy, affected Style and Sentiment, so prevalent in Modern Correspondence, the Delight of our Novelists, and the Bane of our Youth. With Variety of Poetical Letters, Humorous and Pathetic, Sentimental and Descriptive. And Cards of Compliment and Condolance, of Friendship and Resentment. In this Collection are contained Rules to be observed in writing Letters, and the different Forms of Address. To which is prefixed a short, but comprehensive, grammar of th English language. -The Whole so calculated, that any Lady may, in a very short Time, be enabled to write her Thoughts with a becoming Propriety and Ease. By the Right Hon. Lady Dorothea Du Bois.
Du Bois, Dorothea, 1728-1774.Date: [1771]- Books
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Rhetorical style : the uses of language in persuasion / Jeanne Fahnestock.
Fahnestock, Jeanne, 1945-Date: [2011], ©2011