English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell InstituteC. Scribner's Sons, 1891 - 316 pages |
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... matter contained in the chapter under considera- tion ; he thus learns , half insensibly , to consider the subject not as an abstract one , but rather as a body of practical advice concerning artistic conduct . In categorically ...
... matter contained in the chapter under considera- tion ; he thus learns , half insensibly , to consider the subject not as an abstract one , but rather as a body of practical advice concerning artistic conduct . In categorically ...
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... matters of detail . Is this word or that admissi- ble ? Why , in a piece of writing I once published , did I permit myself to use the apparently commercial phrase " at any rate " ? Are not words of Saxon ori- gin invariably preferable ...
... matters of detail . Is this word or that admissi- ble ? Why , in a piece of writing I once published , did I permit myself to use the apparently commercial phrase " at any rate " ? Are not words of Saxon ori- gin invariably preferable ...
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... matter of detail at all , but a very simple body of general principles under which details readily group themselves . I have seen too that al- though a small part of the corrections and criticisms I have had to make are concerned with ...
... matter of detail at all , but a very simple body of general principles under which details readily group themselves . I have seen too that al- though a small part of the corrections and criticisms I have had to make are concerned with ...
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... matter , not of law , but of practice . The question in a given instance is not what ought to be the case , but what is . And to the state of things which enables us to decide in spelling , as in other fashions , what the case is at any ...
... matter , not of law , but of practice . The question in a given instance is not what ought to be the case , but what is . And to the state of things which enables us to decide in spelling , as in other fashions , what the case is at any ...
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... matter in ques- tion . For various reasons , the 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 ...
... matter in ques- tion . For various reasons , the 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 ...
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Page 55 - 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 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 92 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
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 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 ! To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler!
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.
Page 177 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them.
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 172 - No more firing was heard at Brussels — the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.