Composition and StyleJohn Grant, 1908 - 320 էջ |
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... proper construc tion of sentences — the keystone to the arch of perfect composition and he is afterwards introduced to the select body of authors , who , from the sixteenth century onward to the present time , have gradually and con ...
... proper construc tion of sentences — the keystone to the arch of perfect composition and he is afterwards introduced to the select body of authors , who , from the sixteenth century onward to the present time , have gradually and con ...
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... proper , in the first place , to direct our attention to single words and phrases , and afterwards to the construction of sentences . Perspicuity , considered with respect to words and phrases , requires the qualities of purity ...
... proper , in the first place , to direct our attention to single words and phrases , and afterwards to the construction of sentences . Perspicuity , considered with respect to words and phrases , requires the qualities of purity ...
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... proper to say the more elegant of the two , the most elegant of the three . This obvious rule has however been neglected by various writers of eminence . This was in reality the easiest manner of the two . - Shaftesbury's Advice to an ...
... proper to say the more elegant of the two , the most elegant of the three . This obvious rule has however been neglected by various writers of eminence . This was in reality the easiest manner of the two . - Shaftesbury's Advice to an ...
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... proper words , and proper arrange- ments of words ; but as his own ideas are loose and general , he cannot express them with any great degree of precision . Few authors in the English language are more easily understood than Archbishop ...
... proper words , and proper arrange- ments of words ; but as his own ideas are loose and general , he cannot express them with any great degree of precision . Few authors in the English language are more easily understood than Archbishop ...
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... proper and sonorous ; and his arrangement is often judicious . His defect in precision is not so much imputable to indistinctness of con- ception , as to perpetual affectation . He is fond to excess of the pomp and parade of language ...
... proper and sonorous ; and his arrangement is often judicious . His defect in precision is not so much imputable to indistinctness of con- ception , as to perpetual affectation . He is fond to excess of the pomp and parade of language ...
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Էջ 35 - To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
Էջ 144 - Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th
Էջ 132 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Էջ 46 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas?
Էջ 238 - ... islands, that were covered with fruits and flowers, and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments.
Էջ 162 - Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Էջ 130 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!
Էջ 310 - I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull.
Էջ 162 - Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a 1 Judges ix.
Էջ 140 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.