English Style in Public Discourse With Special Reference to the Usages of the Pulpit
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Another is the misplaced or excessive inversion of struc- ture. The thoughts appear to move like a crab ; are dragged forth, — the first last, and the last first, and all looking the wrong way, — after the manner of the stolen oxen backing into the cave of Cacus.* Another is the dislocated structure. Connectives are either absent, or misplaced, or meaningless. The style jolts, like an un- easy vehicle on corduroy roads.
LBCT. xvn.] ISTELEGAIJT mAGERT. 291 These constructions may be sufficiently... perspicuous.
They are often consistent with a good degree of energy.
Cromwell's speeches are full of them. Yet he made himself understood, and so well understood that the English Parliament did not care to ask him what he meant a second time. But such constructions are not elegant. There is no comeliness in them. It would be a hard task to set Cromwell's speeches to the measure of a chant, or even to make an Italian, with vocal organs trained to the most euphonious language in the world, rehearse them at all.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Another is the misplaced or excessive inversion of struc- ture. The thoughts appear to move like a crab ; are dragged forth, — the first last, and the last first, and all looking the wrong way, — after the manner of the stolen oxen backing into the cave of Cacus.* Another is the dislocated structure. Connectives are either absent, or misplaced, or meaningless. The style jolts, like an un- easy vehicle on corduroy roads.
LBCT. xvn.] ISTELEGAIJT mAGERT. 291 These constructions may be sufficiently... perspicuous.
They are often consistent with a good degree of energy.
Cromwell's speeches are full of them. Yet he made himself understood, and so well understood that the English Parliament did not care to ask him what he meant a second time. But such constructions are not elegant. There is no comeliness in them. It would be a hard task to set Cromwell's speeches to the measure of a chant, or even to make an Italian, with vocal organs trained to the most euphonious language in the world, rehearse them at all.
What to read after English Style in Public Discourse With Special Reference to the Usages of the Pulpit?
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