Farnsworth's Classical English Style by Ward Farnsworth

Author:Ward Farnsworth
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Published: 2020-04-20T21:00:00+00:00

Paine, The Rights of Man (1791)

The military conspiracies, which are to be remedied by civic confederacies; the rebellious municipalities, which are to be rendered obedient by furnishing them with the means of seducing the very armies of the state that are to keep them in order; all these chimeras of a monstrous and portentous policy must aggravate the confusion from which they have arisen. There must be blood.

Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Notice that the substance of the short sentence often has a particular relationship to the longer one. It summarizes or punctuates what has been said at more length. We saw in early chapters the power of using short and concrete words to restate what has already been said in a longer and more abstract way. The idea here is parallel.

A long sentence can sometimes create enough momentum to set up two or three short ones.

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