English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell InstituteCharles Scribner's sons, 1891 - 320 Seiten |
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... words are at his disposal . It is clear that we must use the words - the articulate sounds to which the English - speaking peoples of ― the present time agree to attach definite significance ; and ELEMENTS AND QUALITIES OF STYLE . 15.
... words are at his disposal . It is clear that we must use the words - the articulate sounds to which the English - speaking peoples of ― the present time agree to attach definite significance ; and ELEMENTS AND QUALITIES OF STYLE . 15.
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... definite significance ; and what these words are we can discover only by such constant observation and care of what is going on about us in the whole English - speaking world as a child or a foreigner would give to a language he was ...
... definite significance ; and what these words are we can discover only by such constant observation and care of what is going on about us in the whole English - speaking world as a child or a foreigner would give to a language he was ...
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... definite phases of that eternally im- material reality to which we give the name " thought . " I shall ask you now , in imagination , to turn once more to a printed page , or better still , to a printed - book , and ask yourselves ...
... definite phases of that eternally im- material reality to which we give the name " thought . " I shall ask you now , in imagination , to turn once more to a printed page , or better still , to a printed - book , and ask yourselves ...
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... definite vocabulary , he finds himself in possession only of a jumbled collection of ill - defined synonyms . I have said enough , I think , to show clearly what Barbarisms and Improprieties are . Under one head or the other must fall ...
... definite vocabulary , he finds himself in possession only of a jumbled collection of ill - defined synonyms . I have said enough , I think , to show clearly what Barbarisms and Improprieties are . Under one head or the other must fall ...
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... definite understanding of the ultimate relation of words and ideas than most of us habitually enjoy . I shall turn , then , to a consideration of this question , which I think we should carefully consider before dismissing this part of ...
... definite understanding of the ultimate relation of words and ideas than most of us habitually enjoy . I shall turn , then , to a consideration of this question , which I think we should carefully consider before dismissing this part of ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
attention beginning believe Ben Jonson better catch the eye cerning chapter chief chiefly clause clear Comedy of Errors commonplace composed composition of sentences consider construction course definite deliberate denotation and connotation distinct effect elements of style English English language example express fact figures Fisher Ames Gentlemen of Verona give grammar graph Harvard College human impression kind language Latin lecture less literary literature matter means Midsummer Night's Dream mind never notable order of words ourselves palpable passage perhaps periodic periodic sentences phrase piece of style precisely pretty principle of Coherence principle of Mass principle of Unity principles of composition Publius Crassus purpose question reader relation remember Saxon secret Sejanus sense Shakspere simple single Sir Thomas Browne Solecism speech subtile suggest tell tence thing thought and emotion tion trait understand usage whoever whole compositions wish to produce writing
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 276 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Seite 275 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least,...
Seite 59 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When...
Seite 60 - THAT time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie...
Seite 9 - Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights: Wait ye the warning? Our low life was the level's and the night's; He's for the morning. Step to a tune, square chests, erect each head, 'Ware the beholders! This is our master, famous calm and dead, Borne on our shoulders.
Seite 177 - Then, sir, from these six capital sources; of descent; of form of government; of religion in the northern provinces; of manners in the southern ; of education ; of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government; from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.
Seite 285 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Seite 285 - ETHEREAL minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still!
Seite 53 - Then Apollyon, espying his opportunity, began to gather up close to Christian, and, wrestling with him, gave him a dreadful fall; and with that Christian's sword flew out of his hand. Then said Apollyon, "I am sure of thee now !" and with that he had almost pressed him to death, so that Christian began to despair of life.
Seite 253 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.