Composition and StyleJohn Grant, 1908 - 320 стор. |
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... STRENGTH SENTENCES .HARMONY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SEN- 52 56 бі 65 77 85 TENCES • 99 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN GENERAL · 113 PERSONIFICATION 118 • APOSTROPHE • HYPERBOLE 129 131 COMPARISON METAPHOR 134 146 ALLEGORY 160 THE CONCISE AND THE ...
... STRENGTH SENTENCES .HARMONY IN THE STRUCTURE OF SEN- 52 56 бі 65 77 85 TENCES • 99 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN GENERAL · 113 PERSONIFICATION 118 • APOSTROPHE • HYPERBOLE 129 131 COMPARISON METAPHOR 134 146 ALLEGORY 160 THE CONCISE AND THE ...
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... strength and weakness now , and I must have written it before finding them out . Had I been nervous about its being a perfect piece , and with that view asked advice , and trembled on every page , it would not have been written , for it ...
... strength and weakness now , and I must have written it before finding them out . Had I been nervous about its being a perfect piece , and with that view asked advice , and trembled on every page , it would not have been written , for it ...
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... strength , and whosoever vanquished , they vanquished the enemies of Rome . -Gibbon's Hist . of the Roman Empire . Cæsar having in this manner made an example which he supposed was to overawe all the nations of that neighbourhood , he ...
... strength , and whosoever vanquished , they vanquished the enemies of Rome . -Gibbon's Hist . of the Roman Empire . Cæsar having in this manner made an example which he supposed was to overawe all the nations of that neighbourhood , he ...
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... of the most essential properties of a perfect sentence . These seem to be clearness and pre- cision , unity , strength , and harmony . CLEARNESS AND PRECISION IN THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES . In 64 Composition and Style .
... of the most essential properties of a perfect sentence . These seem to be clearness and pre- cision , unity , strength , and harmony . CLEARNESS AND PRECISION IN THE STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES . In 64 Composition and Style .
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... strength of a period . And here it was often found of absolute necessity to enflame or cool the passions of the audience ; especially at Rome , where Tully spoke , and with whose writings young divines ( I mean those among them who read ...
... strength of a period . And here it was often found of absolute necessity to enflame or cool the passions of the audience ; especially at Rome , where Tully spoke , and with whose writings young divines ( I mean those among them who read ...
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Сторінка 35 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Сторінка 144 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Сторінка 132 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Сторінка 46 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas?
Сторінка 238 - ... islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Сторінка 162 - Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Сторінка 130 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!
Сторінка 310 - I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
Сторінка 162 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a 1 Judges ix.
Сторінка 140 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.