The Art of Writing & Speaking the English Language, Volume 1old Greek Press., 1903 |
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... clear , placid , and mellow splendor was never overclouded . The metaphor is the commonest figure of speech . Our language is a sort of burying - ground of faded metaphors . Look up in the dictionary the etymol- ogy of such words as ...
... clear , placid , and mellow splendor was never overclouded . The metaphor is the commonest figure of speech . Our language is a sort of burying - ground of faded metaphors . Look up in the dictionary the etymol- ogy of such words as ...
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... clear and vivid . Examples : ( Macaulay , more than any other writer , habitually uses antitheses ) . Saul , seek- ing his father's asses , found himself turned into a king . Fit the same intellect to a man and it is a bowstring ; to a ...
... clear and vivid . Examples : ( Macaulay , more than any other writer , habitually uses antitheses ) . Saul , seek- ing his father's asses , found himself turned into a king . Fit the same intellect to a man and it is a bowstring ; to a ...
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... clear- ness and simplicity of thought . Unless we have mastered our thought in every particular before trying to express it , confusion is inevitable . At the same time , if we have mastered our thought perfectly , and yet express it in ...
... clear- ness and simplicity of thought . Unless we have mastered our thought in every particular before trying to express it , confusion is inevitable . At the same time , if we have mastered our thought perfectly , and yet express it in ...
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... clear to them , and we shall have failed in conveying our thoughts as much as if we had never mastered them . Force ... clearly ; and if he has any thought to express that is worth expressing , and wants to express it , he will sooner or ...
... clear to them , and we shall have failed in conveying our thoughts as much as if we had never mastered them . Force ... clearly ; and if he has any thought to express that is worth expressing , and wants to express it , he will sooner or ...
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... clear will not give skill . And with this simplicity there is consum- mate art . Ruskin uses nearly all the devices des- cribed in the preceding pages . Let us look at some of these in the first three paragraphs of Ruskin's story ...
... clear will not give skill . And with this simplicity there is consum- mate art . Ruskin uses nearly all the devices des- cribed in the preceding pages . Let us look at some of these in the first three paragraphs of Ruskin's story ...
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Page 24 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 105 - If Time be of all Things the most precious, wasting Time must be, as Poor Richard says, the greatest Prodigality; since, as he elsewhere tells us, Lost Time is never found again; and what we call Time enough, always proves little enough...
Page 26 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 64 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion, the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 63 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Page 13 - I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore, I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.
Page 64 - People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh, who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.
Page 29 - I saw her bright reflection In the waters under me, Like a golden goblet falling And sinking into the sea. And far in the hazy distance Of that lovely night in June, The blaze of the flaming furnace Gleamed redder than the moon. Among...
Page 65 - These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose, which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other.
Page 68 - Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven: And now prepare thee for another sight." He look'd, and saw a spacious plain, whereon Were tents of various hue; by some were herds Of cattle grazing; others, whence the sound Of instruments, that made melodious chime, Was heard, of harp and organ, and who moved Their stops and chords was seen; his volant touch, Instinct through all proportions, low and high, Fled and pursued transverse the resonant...