English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell InstituteCharles Scribner's sons, 1891 - 320 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 33
Page vii
... chief parts of every composition should be so placed as readily to catch the eye . The third , the principle of Coherence , con- cerns the internal arrangement of a composition : the relation of each part of a composition to its ...
... chief parts of every composition should be so placed as readily to catch the eye . The third , the principle of Coherence , con- cerns the internal arrangement of a composition : the relation of each part of a composition to its ...
Page ix
... chief ideas should generally be in its most conspicuous places ; and the relation of each sentence to the context should generally be unmistakable . By varying the arrangement of paragraphs , and by constantly applying these principles ...
... chief ideas should generally be in its most conspicuous places ; and the relation of each sentence to the context should generally be unmistakable . By varying the arrangement of paragraphs , and by constantly applying these principles ...
Page 18
... chief of which is that five centuries ago pretty much everything worth read- ing was comprised in what survived of the literatures of Greece and Rome , the education of civilized Euro- peans and Americans is still based on a prolonged ...
... chief of which is that five centuries ago pretty much everything worth read- ing was comprised in what survived of the literatures of Greece and Rome , the education of civilized Euro- peans and Americans is still based on a prolonged ...
Page 23
... chief danger of falling into a style not national . A few examples of style that is reputable and pres- ent , but not national , and so not good , will make the matter clear . " Ecteronic appendages , " I find in the first book of ...
... chief danger of falling into a style not national . A few examples of style that is reputable and pres- ent , but not national , and so not good , will make the matter clear . " Ecteronic appendages , " I find in the first book of ...
Page 26
... chief reason why style impresses us as a thing possessed of very subtile qualities is that human consent has agreed to asso- ciate with those palpably material facts , arbitrary sounds and the arbitrary marks that stand for them ...
... chief reason why style impresses us as a thing possessed of very subtile qualities is that human consent has agreed to asso- ciate with those palpably material facts , arbitrary sounds and the arbitrary marks that stand for them ...
Other editions - View all
English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute Barrett Wendell No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
attention beginning believe Ben Jonson better catch the eye cerning chapter chief chiefly clause clear Comedy of Errors commonplace composed composition of sentences consider construction course definite deliberate denotation and connotation distinct effect elements of style English English language example express fact figures Fisher Ames Gentlemen of Verona give grammar graph Harvard College human impression kind language Latin lecture less literary literature matter means Midsummer Night's Dream mind never notable order of words ourselves palpable passage perhaps periodic periodic sentences phrase piece of style precisely pretty principle of Coherence principle of Mass principle of Unity principles of composition Publius Crassus purpose question reader relation remember Saxon secret Sejanus sense Shakspere simple single Sir Thomas Browne Solecism speech subtile suggest tell tence thing thought and emotion tion trait understand usage whoever whole compositions wish to produce writing
Popular passages
Page 276 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 275 - If all the pens that ever poets held Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspired their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes ; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit ; If these had made one poem's period, And all combined in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least,...
Page 59 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When...
Page 60 - THAT time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie...
Page 9 - Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights: Wait ye the warning? Our low life was the level's and the night's; He's for the morning. Step to a tune, square chests, erect each head, 'Ware the beholders! This is our master, famous calm and dead, Borne on our shoulders.
Page 177 - Then, sir, from these six capital sources; of descent; of form of government; of religion in the northern provinces; of manners in the southern ; of education ; of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government; from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.
Page 285 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 285 - ETHEREAL minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still!
Page 53 - Then Apollyon, espying his opportunity, began to gather up close to Christian, and, wrestling with him, gave him a dreadful fall; and with that Christian's sword flew out of his hand. Then said Apollyon, "I am sure of thee now !" and with that he had almost pressed him to death, so that Christian began to despair of life.
Page 253 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.