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THE ART _of_ WRITING & SPEAKING _The_ ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SHERWIN CODY
Special S Y S T E M Edition
COMPOSITION & Rhetoric
The Old Greek Press
_Chicago New{ }York Boston_
_Revised Edition_.
_Copyright,1903,_ BY SHERWIN CODY.
Note. The thanks of the author are due to Dr. Edwin H. Lewis, of the
Lewis Institute, Chicago, and to Prof. John F. Genung, Ph. D., of Amherst
College, for suggestions made after reading the proof of this series.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.---THE METHOD OF THE MASTERS. 7
CHAPTER I. DICTION.
CHAPTER II. FIGURES OF SPEECH.
CHAPTER III. STYLE.
CHAPTER IV. HUMOR.---Addison, Stevenson, Lamb.
CHAPTER V. RIDICULE.---Poe.
CHAPTER VI. THE RHETORICAL, IMPASSIONED AND LOFTY STYLES.
---Macaulay and De Quincey.
CHAPTER VII. RESERVE.---Thackeray.
CHAPTER VIII. CRITICISM.---Matthew Arnold and Ruskin.
CHAPTER IX. THE STYLE OF FICTION:
NARRATIVE, DESCRIPTION, AND DIALOGUE.---Dickens.
CHAPTER X. THE EPIGRAMMATIC STYLE.---Stephen Crane.
CHAPTER XI. THE POWER OF SIMPLICITY.---The Bible, Franklin, Lincoln.
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