The Elements of English CompositionWm. Whyte and Company, 1841 - 410 páginas |
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... tion of sentences . Perspicuity , considered with respect to words and phrases , requires the qualities of purity , propriety , and precision . Of these , the first two are often con- founded with each other , and indeed they are very ...
... tion of sentences . Perspicuity , considered with respect to words and phrases , requires the qualities of purity , propriety , and precision . Of these , the first two are often con- founded with each other , and indeed they are very ...
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... tion : we meet with no obstacles in our progress , or we do not perceive them ; we find ourselves able to proceed without rules , and we never suspect that they may be of any use . A grammatical study of our own language forms no part ...
... tion : we meet with no obstacles in our progress , or we do not perceive them ; we find ourselves able to proceed without rules , and we never suspect that they may be of any use . A grammatical study of our own language forms no part ...
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... tion , were at liberty to form new schemes . - Bolingbroke's Disserta- tion on Parties . Phalaris , who was so much older than her . - Bentley's Dissertation on Phalaris . The drift of all his sermons was , to prepare the Jews for the ...
... tion , were at liberty to form new schemes . - Bolingbroke's Disserta- tion on Parties . Phalaris , who was so much older than her . - Bentley's Dissertation on Phalaris . The drift of all his sermons was , to prepare the Jews for the ...
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... tion . Warton's Observations on Spenser . Every book ought to be read with the same spirit , and in the same manner as it is writ . - Fielding's Tom Jones . In this respect , the seeds of future divisions were sow'd abundantly ...
... tion . Warton's Observations on Spenser . Every book ought to be read with the same spirit , and in the same manner as it is writ . - Fielding's Tom Jones . In this respect , the seeds of future divisions were sow'd abundantly ...
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... tion , apt to be disgusting . An author may some- * Dryden " had a vanity , unworthy of his abilities , to shew , as may be suspected , the rank of the company with whom he lived , by the use of French words , which had then crept into ...
... tion , apt to be disgusting . An author may some- * Dryden " had a vanity , unworthy of his abilities , to shew , as may be suspected , the rank of the company with whom he lived , by the use of French words , which had then crept into ...
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...