A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of English Prose StyleSherwin Cody A.C. McClurg & Company, 1903 - 415 Seiten |
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... persons ; but they are the persons whose voices are most likely to be heard , while the multitude ( if by any chance this volume should have a multitude ) of common readers will remain pro- foundly quiet . I wish to answer several ...
... persons ; but they are the persons whose voices are most likely to be heard , while the multitude ( if by any chance this volume should have a multitude ) of common readers will remain pro- foundly quiet . I wish to answer several ...
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... person should think of trying to digest at one time . If more were to be swallowed it would result in mental dyspepsia . One more question remains for brief consider- ation . The critic in me asks the editor , Why do you undertake to ...
... person should think of trying to digest at one time . If more were to be swallowed it would result in mental dyspepsia . One more question remains for brief consider- ation . The critic in me asks the editor , Why do you undertake to ...
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... person , hov he must have wished that the great Dean were upon his side ! We may see the influence of Swift in Carlyle and also in the later work of Ruskin ( " Fors Clavigera " ) . But in his field of devilish satire Swift stands ...
... person , hov he must have wished that the great Dean were upon his side ! We may see the influence of Swift in Carlyle and also in the later work of Ruskin ( " Fors Clavigera " ) . But in his field of devilish satire Swift stands ...
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... persons to express it . Laboring under the false impression that there is but one style , or , at any rate , but one style for any given person , the stu- dent in search of style will select some one master whom he looks on as a master ...
... persons to express it . Laboring under the false impression that there is but one style , or , at any rate , but one style for any given person , the stu- dent in search of style will select some one master whom he looks on as a master ...
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... person ought to read literature with a well - developed critical taste : nearly every one will admit that ; but many will say that only the few who are to become professional writers will wish to spend any time in acquiring personal and ...
... person ought to read literature with a well - developed critical taste : nearly every one will admit that ; but many will say that only the few who are to become professional writers will wish to spend any time in acquiring personal and ...
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Seite 7 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Seite 324 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Seite 8 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Seite 12 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Seite 8 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences...
Seite 244 - On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, — "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.
Seite 283 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes...
Seite 16 - I will conclude this first fruit of friendship, which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves; for there is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Seite 58 - Some of them could not refrain from tears at the sight of their old master ; every one of them pressed forward to do something for him, and seemed discouraged if they were not employed. At the same time the good old knight, with a mixture of the father and the master of the family, tempered the inquiries after his own affairs with several kind questions relating to themselves. This humanity and...
Seite 259 - But now we are a mob. Man does not stand in awe of man, nor is his genius admonished to stay at home, to put itself in communication with the internal ocean, but it goes abroad to beg a cup of water of the urns of men. We must go alone. Isolation must precede true society. I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.