Amplification Quote by George Henry Lewes

“There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.” quote by George Henry Lewes — Download Open image

“There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.”

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Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use…

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It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

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I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such…

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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

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In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities.…

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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

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To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

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The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of…

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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

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