The Elements of English CompositionWm. Whyte and Company, 1841 - 410 páginas |
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... attention to ele- gance or propriety . Thus , if we take a retrospective view of English literature at no very remote period , we shall often find the beauty of the thought obscured by the mean- ness of the expression ; its pages are ...
... attention to ele- gance or propriety . Thus , if we take a retrospective view of English literature at no very remote period , we shall often find the beauty of the thought obscured by the mean- ness of the expression ; its pages are ...
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... attention to single words and phrases , and afterwards to the construc- tion 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 construc- tion 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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... attention . But we commonly take for granted , that we possess a competent knowledge of it , and are able on any occa- sion to apply our knowledge to practice . A faculty , solely acquired by use , conducted by habit , and tried by the ...
... attention . But we commonly take for granted , that we possess a competent knowledge of it , and are able on any occa- sion to apply our knowledge to practice . A faculty , solely acquired by use , conducted by habit , and tried by the ...
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... attention to minute formalities , is a certain indica- tion of a little mind , conscious to ( of ) the want of innate dignity.— Hawkesworth's Almoran and Hamet . He found the greatest difficulty of ( in ) writing . - Hume's Hist . of ...
... attention to minute formalities , is a certain indica- tion of a little mind , conscious to ( of ) the want of innate dignity.— Hawkesworth's Almoran and Hamet . He found the greatest difficulty of ( in ) writing . - Hume's Hist . of ...
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... attention , in such natives of North Britain as are anxious to write the English language with cor- rectness and purity . It would scarcely be consistent with our present design to exhibit a long list of pro- vincial expressions ; but ...
... attention , in such natives of North Britain as are anxious to write the English language with cor- rectness and purity . It would scarcely be consistent with our present design to exhibit a long list of pro- vincial expressions ; but ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Æneid allegory ancient appear Aristotle attention beauty Beggar's Opera Born CHAP character Cicero composition consider critics degree Demosthenes diction died discourse Dissertation edit effect elegant eloquence employed Encyclopædia Britannica endeavour English English language Essay examples expression fancy figure genius grace Greek harmony hath haue Hist History honour human humour ideas imagination imitate instances Johnson kind labour language learned Lond Macedon mankind manner MDCCCXLI means ment metaphor mind nature never object observe occasion opinion ornament passage passion period person personification perspicuity phrases Plato pleasure Plutarch poetry poets possessed proper propriety prose racter reader reason religion remarkable resemblance Roman Roman Empire Roman Republic seems sense sentence sentiments Sermons shew simile simplicity sion Sir William Temple soul sound speak style taste tence things thou thought tion tragedy truth verse Virgil virtue words writers Xenophon
Passagens conhecidas
Página 188 - I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down.
Página 339 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 147 - Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Página 147 - 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.
Página 152 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love ; Behold, thou art fair ; Thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks : Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That appear from mount Gilead.
Página 11 - By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great first Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Página 140 - But flutter through life's little day, In Fortune's varying colours drest, Brush'd by the hand of rough mischance, Or chill'd by age, their airy dance They leave, in dust to rest. Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May.
Página 188 - Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
Página 187 - 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 winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, And it brought forth wild grapes.
Página 187 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it ? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes...