Composition and StyleJohn Grant, 1908 - 320 sider |
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... seem to be valuable . This work will , it is confidently believed , materially assist them in their endeavours . The present volume sets forth and illustrates all the rules which should be observed by the young Author . These , if ...
... seem to be valuable . This work will , it is confidently believed , materially assist them in their endeavours . The present volume sets forth and illustrates all the rules which should be observed by the young Author . These , if ...
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... seems to characterize the shock of rejection as peculiarly as does an intoxi- cating joy the first moment of realized success in letters . The unlucky aspirant , reading by the light of those severe remarks his rejected article , made ...
... seems to characterize the shock of rejection as peculiarly as does an intoxi- cating joy the first moment of realized success in letters . The unlucky aspirant , reading by the light of those severe remarks his rejected article , made ...
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... seems to be the strongest of the two . - Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments . Were it not for this , the secondary rocks , being in position super- incumbent on the primary , ought to be the highest of the two.- Playfair's Illustrations ...
... seems to be the strongest of the two . - Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments . Were it not for this , the secondary rocks , being in position super- incumbent on the primary , ought to be the highest of the two.- Playfair's Illustrations ...
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... seems scarcely justifiable to resume them . - Leland's Dissertations on Elo- quence . Rabelais had too much game given him for satire in that age by the customs of courts and of convents , of processes and of wars , of schools and of ...
... seems scarcely justifiable to resume them . - Leland's Dissertations on Elo- quence . Rabelais had too much game given him for satire in that age by the customs of courts and of convents , of processes and of wars , of schools and of ...
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... seem to die . - Lee . The practice of describing objects and circumstances peculiar to ancient times , by terms characteristic of modern institutions and manners , may safely be classed among the chief improprieties of style . Gavin ...
... seem to die . - Lee . The practice of describing objects and circumstances peculiar to ancient times , by terms characteristic of modern institutions and manners , may safely be classed among the chief improprieties of style . Gavin ...
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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.