Newspaper Sentiment
Anon
Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous, Drollery |
Publications extracted: | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine |
Subjects: | Meteorology, Electricity, Disease, Veterinary Science, Physics, Anatomy |
Considers that the sentiment and language of country newspapers is much less denuded than that in the London newspapers. Country writers often prefer uncommon to common language. Thus: 'If a flash of lightning set a haystack in a blaze, or ring the bells of a steeple, the approved epithet is, "the electric fluid". If a dog bite a pig, the narrative teems with "virus", the "rabid animal", and the "latration" of the patient. Or, if a stage-coach running races meets its natural fate, the world are called to wonder at "centripetal force", "dire concussions", and "compound fractures of the tibia"' (95). |
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