Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay
Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay
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His manner is as harsh as his countenance ; but his peculiar turn of thinking, and his pack of knowledge, made up of the remnants of rarities, rendered his conversation desirable, in spite of his pedantry and ungracious address. I have often met with a crab-apple in a hedge, which I have been tempted to eat for its flavour, even while I was disgusted by its austerity.
The spirit of contradiction is naturally strong in Lismahago, that I believe in my conscience he has rummaged, and read, and stu...died with indefatigable attention, in order to qualify Digitized by Google 212 TOBIAS SMOLLETT.
himself to refute established maxims, and thus raise trophies for the gratification of polemical pride. Such is the asperity of his self-conceit, that he will not even acquiesce in a transient com- pliment made to his own individual in particular, or to his country in general.
When I observed, that he must have read a vast number of books to be able to discourse on such a variety of subjects, he declared he had read little or nothing, and asked how he should find books among the woods of America, where he had spent the greatest part of his life.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
His manner is as harsh as his countenance ; but his peculiar turn of thinking, and his pack of knowledge, made up of the remnants of rarities, rendered his conversation desirable, in spite of his pedantry and ungracious address. I have often met with a crab-apple in a hedge, which I have been tempted to eat for its flavour, even while I was disgusted by its austerity.
The spirit of contradiction is naturally strong in Lismahago, that I believe in my conscience he has rummaged, and read, and stu...died with indefatigable attention, in order to qualify Digitized by Google 212 TOBIAS SMOLLETT.
himself to refute established maxims, and thus raise trophies for the gratification of polemical pride. Such is the asperity of his self-conceit, that he will not even acquiesce in a transient com- pliment made to his own individual in particular, or to his country in general.
When I observed, that he must have read a vast number of books to be able to discourse on such a variety of subjects, he declared he had read little or nothing, and asked how he should find books among the woods of America, where he had spent the greatest part of his life.
What to read after Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay?
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