English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell InstituteCharles Scribner's sons, 1891 - 320 pages |
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... that we cannot see at a glance how its presence affects the words about it . Sometimes coherence is a ques- tion of the actual order of words ; sometimes , as in ― 66 connec- the clause I am at this moment writing 34 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
... that we cannot see at a glance how its presence affects the words about it . Sometimes coherence is a ques- tion of the actual order of words ; sometimes , as in ― 66 connec- the clause I am at this moment writing 34 ENGLISH COMPOSITION .
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... clause I write now , it demands a pretty careful use of those convenient parts of speech to which we give the name tives . " In that last clause , for example , the pronoun it , referring to the word coherence , which was the sub- ject ...
... clause I write now , it demands a pretty careful use of those convenient parts of speech to which we give the name tives . " In that last clause , for example , the pronoun it , referring to the word coherence , which was the sub- ject ...
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... clause I am now writing , incontestably periodic . ― This classification is obviously exact . Every sen- tence that was ever composed , every sentence that ever will be , must be either periodic or loose . And in almost any writer whose ...
... clause I am now writing , incontestably periodic . ― This classification is obviously exact . Every sen- tence that was ever composed , every sentence that ever will be , must be either periodic or loose . And in almost any writer whose ...
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... clause involves not only the addition of some new features to an idea that one is tempted to con- sider complete without them , but often also the un- making of an idea into which the logically incomplete if grammatically complete ...
... clause involves not only the addition of some new features to an idea that one is tempted to con- sider complete without them , but often also the un- making of an idea into which the logically incomplete if grammatically complete ...
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... clauses is very obvious and sim- ple , -as obvious as that of the Psalms . In the passage from Sir Thomas Browne is a clause whose balance is to me the most exquisite I have found in the lan- guage to see just what is meant by balance ...
... clauses is very obvious and sim- ple , -as obvious as that of the Psalms . In the passage from Sir Thomas Browne is a clause whose balance is to me the most exquisite I have found in the lan- guage to see just what is meant by balance ...
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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.