The Sense of Style: Reading English Prose

16th century aphorisms appear Aristotle assertion audience Authorized Version Bacon's beginning breathing pauses búried Cicero classical classical antiquity consider conventions course create criticism Dear Abby depunctuated dialogue discourse ears effect Emerson emphases English Bible English prose Erasmus essay expository prose familiar fear feel final example friendship give hear hearers heaven Heraclitus hope human impersonal tradition important Johnson kind King Arthur language lectures literary manner nature nót opening sentence oral tradition oration oratory paragraph pattern pause for breath performance structure perhaps poetry Preface printed punc punctuation Quintilian quoted R. P. Blackmur reader reading aloud relation rhetoric rhythm role sense sermon short passage silent reading sometimes speaker speaking speech style syllables telling tence things thou thought time-lapses tion translation treatise Tristram Shandy truth tuation understanding visual structure words writer written texts yóu