Composition and StyleJohn Grant, 1908 - 320 sider |
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Side v
... as a stimulus to the attention of the Student , a comparison is instituted between the opportunities and status of writers in 221485 bygone years and those which favour men of letters of SHAKSPERE -MODERN PAINTERS, Vol iv , pt v.
... as a stimulus to the attention of the Student , a comparison is instituted between the opportunities and status of writers in 221485 bygone years and those which favour men of letters of SHAKSPERE -MODERN PAINTERS, Vol iv , pt v.
Side vi
... attention is then drawn to the 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 ...
... attention is then drawn to the 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 ...
Side viii
... , that the publishers confidently submit this volume to the attention of a discerning public . Cu . Deacon To CHARING CROSS CHAMBERS , LONDON , W.C. CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION PURITY OF STYLE . GRAMMATICAL ERRORS Grammatical viii Preface .
... , that the publishers confidently submit this volume to the attention of a discerning public . Cu . Deacon To CHARING CROSS CHAMBERS , LONDON , W.C. CONTENTS . INTRODUCTION PURITY OF STYLE . GRAMMATICAL ERRORS Grammatical viii Preface .
Side 21
... attention on their style instead of on their sub- ject , have fallen into one of the commonest errors of the present day . In too many cases an exquisitely finished method of saying very commonplace things is the only offering writers ...
... attention on their style instead of on their sub- ject , have fallen into one of the commonest errors of the present day . In too many cases an exquisitely finished method of saying very commonplace things is the only offering writers ...
Side 28
... 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 , propriety , and precision . Of these , the first ...
... 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 , propriety , and precision . Of these , the first ...
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Composition and Style: A Complete Literary Handbook and Manual with a Guide ... Robert D. Blackman Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1913 |
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Side 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.
Side 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
Side 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.
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 162 - Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Side 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!
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.