English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell InstituteCharles Scribner's sons, 1891 - 320 Seiten |
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... reader only by means of our choice and composition of the elements , we may ask ourselves whether the elements of style possess any trait distinctly favor- able to clearness . And we discover that the secret of clearness lies in ...
... reader only by means of our choice and composition of the elements , we may ask ourselves whether the elements of style possess any trait distinctly favor- able to clearness . And we discover that the secret of clearness lies in ...
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... readers , of those to whom it is addressed . Any piece of style , we all know , impresses us in a fairly distinct way , which we rarely take the trouble to define . Most readers never know more about it than that it interests or pleases ...
... readers , of those to whom it is addressed . Any piece of style , we all know , impresses us in a fairly distinct way , which we rarely take the trouble to define . Most readers never know more about it than that it interests or pleases ...
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... readers in three ways , in- tellectually , emotionally , æsthetically ; to appeal to their understanding , their feelings , their taste . Every quality of style that I know of may be reduced to one of these three classes ; and these ...
... readers in three ways , in- tellectually , emotionally , æsthetically ; to appeal to their understanding , their feelings , their taste . Every quality of style that I know of may be reduced to one of these three classes ; and these ...
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... reader is apt to know , are purely arbitrary . Whoever knows an alphabet , however , as all of us know the twenty - six letters that compose written English , sees in these black marks , not the marks themselves , but the ideas they ...
... reader is apt to know , are purely arbitrary . Whoever knows an alphabet , however , as all of us know the twenty - six letters that compose written English , sees in these black marks , not the marks themselves , but the ideas they ...
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... readers no- tice the beginning and the end of compositions a good deal more readily than the parts that come between is the fact on which the principle of Mass is based . A writer who is careful so to mass his compositions as to put in ...
... readers no- tice the beginning and the end of compositions a good deal more readily than the parts that come between is the fact on which the principle of Mass is based . A writer who is careful so to mass his compositions as to put in ...
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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.