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Studies Scientific & Social: By Alfred Russel Wallace, Том 2 Alfred Russel Wallace Повний перегляд - 1900 |
Studies Scientific & Social: By Alfred Russel Wallace, Том 2 Alfred Russel Wallace Повний перегляд - 1900 |
Studies Scientific & Social: By Alfred Russel Wallace, Том 2 Alfred Russel Wallace Повний перегляд - 1900 |
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Сторінка 136 - How much the natural expressiveness of words adds to the beauty of descriptive poetry may be seen everywhere. In Pope's well-known lines— " When Ajax strives some rock's huge weight to throw, The line too labours and the words move slow,
Сторінка 137 - the natural expressiveness of the words, drags, slow, and length, is what conveys such a sense of appropriateness to the simile. Tennyson also is full of such naturally descriptive passages. The lines— " The myriad shriek of wheeling ocean-fowl, The league-long roller thundering on the reef,
Сторінка 336 - have done it. Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden and he will convert it into a desert.
Сторінка 137 - hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees." A few examples of words that are especially expressive may now be
Сторінка 335 - on the contrary, looks on the country as made for him and his fellow-men. No man can threaten him with ejection or the workhouse so long as he is active and economical. He walks, therefore, with a bold step ; he looks you in the face with the air of a free man, but a respectful
Сторінка 471 - slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain
Сторінка 357 - the formula of JUSTICE—" Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal •freedom of any other man,
Сторінка 327 - Let the Devon Commission, appointed by Parliament, and consisting mostly of landlords, answer the question :— " It would be impossible for language to convey an idea of the state of distress to which the ejected tenantry have been reduced, and of the disease, misery, and even vice, which they propagated in the towns wherein they
Сторінка 451 - only by their fraudulent practices, but by the laws which they procure to be made to that effect ; so that though it is a thing most unjust in itself to give such small rewards to those who deserve so well of the public, yet they have given those hardships the name and colour of justice, by procuring laws to