Composition and StyleJohn Grant, 1908 - 320 стор. |
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... tion of sentences — the keystone to the arch of perfect composition and he is afterwards introduced to the select body of authors , who , from the sixteenth century onward to the present time , have gradually and con- tinuously built up ...
... tion of sentences — the keystone to the arch of perfect composition and he is afterwards introduced to the select body of authors , who , from the sixteenth century onward to the present time , have gradually and con- tinuously built up ...
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... tion . - Warton's Observations on Spenser . Every book ought to be read with the same spirit , and in the same manner as it is writ . - Fielding's Tom Jones . In this respect , the seeds of future divisions were Purity of Style . 37.
... tion . - Warton's Observations on Spenser . Every book ought to be read with the same spirit , and in the same manner as it is writ . - Fielding's Tom Jones . In this respect , the seeds of future divisions were Purity of Style . 37.
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... tion to make good cheer , and a great expense , and this country is in possession to furnish wherewithal , to amuse oneself . All that England has of illustrious - all that youth has of amiable , or beauty of ravishing sees itself in ...
... tion to make good cheer , and a great expense , and this country is in possession to furnish wherewithal , to amuse oneself . All that England has of illustrious - all that youth has of amiable , or beauty of ravishing sees itself in ...
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... tion to accuracy of diction is highly conducive to cor- rectness of thought . For , as it is generally true that he whose conceptions are clear , and who is master of his subject , delivers his sentiments with ease and perspi- cuity ...
... tion to accuracy of diction is highly conducive to cor- rectness of thought . For , as it is generally true that he whose conceptions are clear , and who is master of his subject , delivers his sentiments with ease and perspi- cuity ...
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... tion . The proud are both contemptible and odious . " To remark , observe . — We remark , in the way of atten- tion , in order to remember ; we observe , in the way of examination , in order to judge . A traveller remarks the most ...
... tion . The proud are both contemptible and odious . " To remark , observe . — We remark , in the way of atten- tion , in order to remember ; we observe , in the way of examination , in order to judge . A traveller remarks the most ...
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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.