Hugh Blair Quote

A fourth rule for constructing sentences with proper strength is to make the members of them go on rising and growing in their importance above one another. This sort of arrangement is called a climax, and is always considered as a beauty in composition.


Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay (1880)


A fourth rule for constructing sentences with proper strength is to make the members of them go on rising and growing in their importance above one...

A fourth rule for constructing sentences with proper strength is to make the members of them go on rising and growing in their importance above one...

A fourth rule for constructing sentences with proper strength is to make the members of them go on rising and growing in their importance above one...

A fourth rule for constructing sentences with proper strength is to make the members of them go on rising and growing in their importance above one...