The Art of Writing & Speaking the English Language, Volume 1old Greek Press., 1903 |
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... possible , better than those with whom we have to compete . Now , is there not a practical way in which we can help ourselves ? There is no thought that we shall become geniuses , or any- thing of the kind . For us , why should there be ...
... possible , better than those with whom we have to compete . Now , is there not a practical way in which we can help ourselves ? There is no thought that we shall become geniuses , or any- thing of the kind . For us , why should there be ...
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... possible to imitate it . With this view I took some of the papers , and making short hints of the sen- timents in each sentence , laid them by a few days , and then , without looking at the book , tried to complete the papers again , by ...
... possible to imitate it . With this view I took some of the papers , and making short hints of the sen- timents in each sentence , laid them by a few days , and then , without looking at the book , tried to complete the papers again , by ...
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... possible point of view and without repetition of any kind , till that idea has sunk into the mind of the hearer and has been fully compre- hended . Force is destroyed by the- Vice of repetition with slight change or addi- tion ; Vice of ...
... possible point of view and without repetition of any kind , till that idea has sunk into the mind of the hearer and has been fully compre- hended . Force is destroyed by the- Vice of repetition with slight change or addi- tion ; Vice of ...
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... possible monotony . The fourth sentence in the paragraph is also very short , pur- posely made so for emphasis . It gives in a word what the following long sentence presents in de- tail . And observe the constant variation in the form ...
... possible monotony . The fourth sentence in the paragraph is also very short , pur- posely made so for emphasis . It gives in a word what the following long sentence presents in de- tail . And observe the constant variation in the form ...
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... possible exaggeration which will result in the slightest possible incongruity , Of course this presupposes that we understand the facts in a most thorough and delicate way . Our language is not precisely representative of things as they ...
... possible exaggeration which will result in the slightest possible incongruity , Of course this presupposes that we understand the facts in a most thorough and delicate way . Our language is not precisely representative of things as they ...
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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...