English Composition,.C. Scribner's Sons, 1891 - 2 Seiten |
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... true languages or tongues is as dead as Alexander or Cæsar . And along with the sound has perished the vital principle of the languages , - the constantly changing use which brought them from the rude jargons in which they began into ...
... true languages or tongues is as dead as Alexander or Cæsar . And along with the sound has perished the vital principle of the languages , - the constantly changing use which brought them from the rude jargons in which they began into ...
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... true , but simply and solely because , nobody knows why , good use once sanctioned one form , and now sanc- tions the others . I have dwelt thus long on good use because , as I have said more than once already , good use is inevi tably ...
... true , but simply and solely because , nobody knows why , good use once sanctioned one form , and now sanc- tions the others . I have dwelt thus long on good use because , as I have said more than once already , good use is inevi tably ...
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... true of this simplest of sentences is true in a general way of any sentence in the English lan- guage . Good use has settled that the meaning of one great class of compositions in English - namely , of sentences shall be indicated in ...
... true of this simplest of sentences is true in a general way of any sentence in the English lan- guage . Good use has settled that the meaning of one great class of compositions in English - namely , of sentences shall be indicated in ...
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... true of journalists , far and away the most prolific and the most widely read of modern men of letters . An Impropriety of frequent occurrence is a typical example of the trouble that follows . In hasty manuscript the words house and ...
... true of journalists , far and away the most prolific and the most widely read of modern men of letters . An Impropriety of frequent occurrence is a typical example of the trouble that follows . In hasty manuscript the words house and ...
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... true , but to state truth in a some- what disguised form . They purport to be statements about the relative value of different kinds of words ; in truth , they are statements about the relative wisdom of different habits of thought . It ...
... true , but to state truth in a some- what disguised form . They purport to be statements about the relative value of different kinds of words ; in truth , they are statements about the relative wisdom of different habits of thought . It ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
attention beginning believe Ben Jonson better blithe spirit catch the eye chapter chief chiefly clause clear Comedy of Errors commonplace composed composition of sentences consider course definite deliberate distinct effect elegance elements of style English English language example express fact feel figures Fisher Ames Gentlemen of Verona give grammar Harvard College human idea impression kind language Latin less literary literature matter means Midsummer Night's Dream mind notable number of words palpable paragraphs 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 quality of style question reader remember Saxon secret Sejanus sense Shakspere simple single Solecism speech subtile suggest tell tence thing thought and emotion tion trait truth understand usage whoever whole compositions wish to produce writing
Beliebte Passagen
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 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 280 - 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 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 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.
Seite 97 - 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 172 - 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.
Seite 253 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Seite 54 - 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, 5 Those quivering wings composed, that music still!
Seite 53 - I am sure of thee now; and with that, he had almost prest him to death, so that Christian began to despair of life. But as God would have it, while Apollyon was fetching of his last blow, thereby to make a full end of this good Man, Christian nimbly reached out his hand for his Sword, and caught it, saying, Rejoice not against me, O mine Enemy! when I fall, I shall arise...