English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell InstituteCharles Scribner's sons, 1891 - 320 Seiten |
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... construction from " it is a question of " this or that to " it demands " this or that . But per- haps the most important thing to remember about this last principle of composition is its name . Coherence is a much more felicitous name ...
... construction from " it is a question of " this or that to " it demands " this or that . But per- haps the most important thing to remember about this last principle of composition is its name . Coherence is a much more felicitous name ...
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... constructions that in analysis do not make good sense . Most of them are what we call Solecisms , a convenient single ... construction which does not make good sense is a - blunder , we must make sure that it is not 78 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... constructions that in analysis do not make good sense . Most of them are what we call Solecisms , a convenient single ... construction which does not make good sense is a - blunder , we must make sure that it is not 78 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... construction does not make good sense , and is not an Idiom , it is a Solecism ; and a Solecism is a violation of good use . That seems to me the whole story . One or two very simple examples will illustrate this matter as well as more ...
... construction does not make good sense , and is not an Idiom , it is a Solecism ; and a Solecism is a violation of good use . That seems to me the whole story . One or two very simple examples will illustrate this matter as well as more ...
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... construction not sanctioned by English usage is reducible to a mode of Impropriety : it really amounts to using an English word , or English words , in a sense not sanctioned by English usage . It differs from a simple Impropriety only ...
... construction not sanctioned by English usage is reducible to a mode of Impropriety : it really amounts to using an English word , or English words , in a sense not sanctioned by English usage . It differs from a simple Impropriety only ...
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... is this , words closely related in thought should be placed together , words distinct in thought kept apart . The second , which concerns coherence - - in constructions , is this , -phrases that are 104 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... is this , words closely related in thought should be placed together , words distinct in thought kept apart . The second , which concerns coherence - - in constructions , is this , -phrases that are 104 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
apply beginning Ben Jonson better catch the eye chapter chief chiefly clause clear Comedy of Errors commonplace composed composition of paragraphs composition of sentences connectives consider course definite deliberate denotation and connotation discourse distinct effect elements of style English English language example experience express fact Fisher Ames glance grammar graph Harvard College human impression Jefferson Davis kind language Latin literature loose matter means Midsummer Night's Dream mind never notable number of words order of words ourselves palpable perhaps periodic periodic sentences phrase precisely pretty principle of Coherence principle of Mass principle of Unity principles of composition Publius Crassus purpose question reader relation remember Rhetoric Saxon scream Sejanus sense Shakspere short simple Sir Thomas Browne Solecism speech subtile suggest tell tence thing thought and emotion tion trait usage whoever whole compositions wish to produce writing written
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 274 - 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 273 - 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 57 - 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 278 - Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least ; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate ; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Seite 283 - 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 251 - 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.
Seite 95 - KNOWING that you was my old master's good friend, I could not forbear sending you the melancholy news of his death, which has afflicted the whole country, as well as his poor servants, who loved him, I may say, better than we did our lives. I am afraid he caught his death the last county...
Seite 7 - 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 284 - There is a willow grows aslant 'a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream ; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them...
Seite 170 - No more firing was heard at Brussels — the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.