Literary notes about Sequent (AI summary)
The term "sequent" is employed in literature to evoke a sense of natural progression or an ordered relationship between events, ideas, or images. It often denotes that one element follows another in a logical or inevitable chain, as seen when it characterizes a cascade of movements or emotions [1] and even the arrangement of historical or factual details [2]. Authors also use "sequent" to imply continuity in both time and causality—whether discussing the rhythmic succession of actions in a narrative [3] or highlighting a series of interrelated impressions in philosophical discourse [4]. Its versatile use helps to structure a text, reinforcing the idea that each part is a necessary follow-on from what has come before [5], [6].
- The land, that gave me birth, Is situate on the coast, where Po descends To rest in ocean with his sequent streams.
— from The vision of hell. By Dante Alighieri. Translated by Rev. Henry Francis Cary, M.A. and illustrated with the seventy-five designs of Gustave Doré. by Dante Alighieri - —The history of lead and silver smelting is by no means a sequent array of exact facts.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola - Harry's game of cards in the freight-car had been a sequent of the game in the chapel.
— from Satan Sanderson by Hallie Erminie Rives - [Pg 593] and that I still believe association of coexistent or sequent impressions to be the one elementary law.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - They are therefore implicated in the consequences of any resolution and every sequent act.
— from In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley - Lower, come the opposing curves in the two boats, the whole forming one group of sequent lines up the whole side of the picture.
— from The Harbours of England by John Ruskin
