The Study and Practice of Writing EnglishHoughton Mifflin, 1914 - 342 стор. |
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The Study and Practice of Writing English Gerhard Richard Lomer,Margaret Ashmun Повний перегляд - 1914 |
The Study and Practice of Writing English Gerhard Richard Lomer,Margaret Ashmun Повний перегляд - 1917 |
The Study and Practice of Writing English Gerhard Richard Lomer,Margaret Ashmun Повний перегляд - 1917 |
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abbreviations adjective apostrophe BALDWIN Better Boston C. L. English Composition College comma Composition and Rhetoric Correct definite dependent clauses discourse drama Edgar Allan Poe elliptical clause English Language English Prose English Speech EXERCISE Exposition expression figures of speech foreign words friends G. B. Shaw GENUNG give given HERRICK and DAMON ideas inclose Incorrect indicate KITTREDGE literary material means ment method modify narration Nathaniel Hawthorne never nonrestrictive NOTE noun omitted paragraph periodic sentence person phrase or clause play plural preposition Principles of Rhetoric pronoun pronunciation punctuation quotation marks reference Rhetoric and Composition Rhetoric and English Rhetoric for Schools Rhetoric in Practice Robert Louis Stevenson rule Sarah Orne Jewett semicolon sentence Short Story singular Slang student style suffix synonyms thing thought tion Undesirable usually Values of English verb W. D. Howells Writing and Speaking Writing English York
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Сторінка 243 - ... t were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre
Сторінка 243 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Сторінка 243 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature...
Сторінка 126 - DAY! Faster and more fast, O'er night's brim, day boils at last : Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim Where spurting and suppressed it lay. For not a froth-flake touched the rim Of yonder gap in the solid gray Of the eastern cloud, an hour away ; But forth one wavelet, then another, curled, Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed, Rose, reddened, and its seething breast Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then overflowed the world.
Сторінка 242 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue ; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Сторінка 117 - Whenever I read a book or a passage that particularly pleased me, in which a thing was said or an effect rendered with propriety, in which there was either some conspicuous force or some happy distinction in the style, I must sit down at once and set myself to ape that quality. I was unsuccessful, and I knew it; and tried again, and was again unsuccessful and always unsuccessful; but at least in these vain bouts, I got some practice in rhythm, in harmony, in construction and the co-ordination of...
Сторінка 124 - ... burial, and we shall perceive the distance to be very great and very strange. But so have I seen a rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood, and, at first, it was fair as the morning, and full with the dew of heaven as a lamb's fleece; but, when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty, and dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements, it began to put on darkness, and to decline to softness and the symptoms of a sickly age; it bowed the head, and broke the stalk, and, at...
Сторінка 242 - I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness. 0, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er-doing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you avoid it.
Сторінка 241 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Сторінка 116 - The form, it seems to me, is to be appreciated after the fact : then the author's choice has been made, his standard has been indicated ; then we can follow lines and directions and compare tones and resemblances. Then in a word we can enjoy one of the most charming of pleasures, we can estimate quality, we can apply the test of execution.