The Elements of English Composition: Serving as a Sequel to the Study of GrammarR. Phillips and Company, 1821 - 318 páginas |
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... Virtue . Such superfluity of words is disgusting to every reader of a correct taste ; and produces no other effect than that of embarrassing and perplexing the sense . To commit a bad action , is first , " to remove a good and orderly ...
... Virtue . Such superfluity of words is disgusting to every reader of a correct taste ; and produces no other effect than that of embarrassing and perplexing the sense . To commit a bad action , is first , " to remove a good and orderly ...
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... Virtue alone makes us happy . " Virtue only makes us happy , implies that nothing else can do it . Virtue alone makes us happy , implies that virtue , unaccompanied with other advan- tages , makes us happy . In the following sentence ...
... Virtue alone makes us happy . " Virtue only makes us happy , implies that nothing else can do it . Virtue alone makes us happy , implies that virtue , unaccompanied with other advan- tages , makes us happy . In the following sentence ...
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... virtue of a definition be what it will , in the order of things it seems rather to follow than to precede our enquiry , of which it ought to be considered as the result . - Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful . This arrangement leaves us ...
... virtue of a definition be what it will , in the order of things it seems rather to follow than to precede our enquiry , of which it ought to be considered as the result . - Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful . This arrangement leaves us ...
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... as violent grief . There is nothing constant in this world but inconstancy ; yet Plato thought , that if Virtue would appear in the world in her her own native dress , all men would be enamoured STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES . .57.
... as violent grief . There is nothing constant in this world but inconstancy ; yet Plato thought , that if Virtue would appear in the world in her her own native dress , all men would be enamoured STRUCTURE OF SENTENCES . .57.
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... virtue , or his country , or some city or province , which has suffered , perhaps , great calami- ties , or been the scene of some memorable event . But it ought to be remembered , that , as such addresses are among the highest efforts ...
... virtue , or his country , or some city or province , which has suffered , perhaps , great calami- ties , or been the scene of some memorable event . But it ought to be remembered , that , as such addresses are among the highest efforts ...
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Addison adverb agreeable allegory ancient appear Aristotle arrangement attention beauty Beggar's Opera blank verse CHAP character Cicero circumstance composition critical degree Demosthenes discourse Dissertation Dryden effect elegance elevation eloquence employed endeavour English English language epistolary Essay expression fancy figurative language figure frequently genius grace Greek harmony harsh hath History Homer honour humour idea imagination imitation instance introduced kind labour language learning letters Lord Shaftesbury manner meaning ment metaphor mind nature never object observations occasion orator ornament passage passion perhaps period person personification perspicuity phrases Plato pleasure Plutarch poet poetry possessed precision produce proper propriety prose qualities Quintilian racter reader remarkable resemblance Roman Empire seems sense sentence sentiment Sermons shew simile simplicity Sir William Temple sound speak species Spectator strength style taste thing thou thought tion tragedy verb verse Virgil virtue vulgar words writer Xenophon
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Página 127 - 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 141 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Página 294 - ... frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Página 138 - 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.
Página 262 - Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law ; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 298 - ... the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Página 165 - 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?
Página 141 - Death? perhaps in this neglected spot is laid some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.
Página 163 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Página 316 - It has been so long said as to be commonly believed, that the true characters of men may be found in their Letters, and that he who writes to his friend lays his heart open before him. But the truth is, that such were the simple friendships of the " Golden Age," and are now the friendships only of children.